The construction industry had only 188,000 job openings in August, down 38% from the month before and 38% from August 2024, according to analysis of US Bureau of Labor Statistics…

The “MPA Delivery Partners” joint venture of Mace, Parsons, and Arcadis has won a $665m, 4.5-year contract extension to keep delivering the $16bn Hudson Tunnel Project in New York. The…

Imagine friends invite you and your family to stay for the weekend but, in the middle of the night, they call the police, saying they’re victims of a home invasion.…

The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) has joined a number of US national construction bodies throwing their weight behind a bipartisan bill that would give visas to migrant workers…

Denmark-headquartered design and engineering consultant Cowi has been picked as lead designer for the second phase of the nearly $2bn Second Avenue Subway project in New York City. It will…

A joint venture of Hochtief subsidiaries, Turner Construction Company and FlatironDragados, has announced the opening of the new Terminal 1 building at San Diego International Airport (SAN). Work began on…

A judge in Washington, DC on Monday granted a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration’s stop-work order against the nearly complete, 704MW Revolution Wind scheme being built off the eastern…

Microsoft has confirmed it will invest an extra $4bn over the next three years at its complex in Fairwater, Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, creating what the company describes as the “world’s…

Last month, the Trump administration halted the nearly complete, 704MW Revolution Wind offshore wind project. Now, its developer and two states are suing to overturn what they say is an…

Donald Trump justified his global tariff carpet-bombing campaign by saying it would encourage high-tech manufacturers to build factories in the US. But the raid led by US Immigration and Customs…

Ground has broken on a 2.3-million-sq-ft production, manufacturing and distribution facility for drinks makers Red Bull and Rauch, and can maker Ball Corporation, in Concord, North Carolina. The site will…

UK-headquartered pharmaceutical company GSK has announced plans to spend $1.2bn on manufacturing facilities and digital technology in the US. The investment includes building a biologics flex factory powered by AI…

Tutor Perini subsidiary Rudolph and Sletten has won a $960m contract to build the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland, California. The 277,500-sq-ft facility will be spread out across seven…

Skanska has won three US contracts worth a total of $256m: a $116m job at the University of Virginia, a $73m signing at Longwood University and $67m contract in New…

Bechtel has appointed US Ambassador Martina Strong as Region President for Central Europe and the Middle East. Strong most recently served as the US ambassador to the United Arab Emirates…

The city of Lancaster in southwest California has announced plans to use AI to streamline building permits in an effort to reduce planning bottlenecks while fast-tracking approvals, becoming one of…

President Trump appeared to show contrition yesterday over the ICE raid on 4 September that resulted in the six-day imprisonment of 317 South Koreans setting up a high-tech EV battery…

Whether it’s ordering ICE raids on multi-billion-dollar construction sites or slapping huge tariffs on staple, imported materials, Donald Trump may be the most interventionist US president in the post-WWII period, and not in a good way for construction.