US food company Mars, the company behind Snickers, M&Ms, Royal Canin and Sheba, says it will spend $2bn building factories in the US by 2026. This May, it opened the…

Aecom have won three architect-engineer’s on-demand contracts from the US Army Corps of Engineers with a ceiling value of $400m for facilities modernisation in the US Pacific. The type of…

A construction boss in the US could face prison after being charged with failing to pay years of employee payroll taxes, scheming to defraud a construction contractor of millions of…

A joint venture of Turner Construction Company, Ardmore Roderick, and Chris Woods Construction – known as the TAC Team – is leading the $700m Terminal Modernisation and Seismic Programme at…

The cost of materials and services used in nonresidential construction in the US rose 0.2% from May to June and 2.3% from June last year, the biggest 12-month increase since…

Dallas-based engineer Jacobs has been selected by Sound Transit to provide design services for a 6.6km expansion of Seattle’s light rail network to the west of the city. The project,…

Cyclists and pedestrians can now cross a busy road without risking life and limb in San Ramon, California thanks to a $21.6m bridge designed by Danish consulting engineer Cowi. Opened…

A joint venture of Turner Construction and Wohlsen Construction has won a contract to build a 100MW data centre in Lancaster, Pennsylvania for AI company CoreWeave, which says it will…

US contractor Gilbane has been selected to build 1,000 homes across 55 acres for the $1bn redevelopment of Calvert Square and Young Terrace in Norfolk, Virginia. The development aims to…

The US subsidiary of Italy’s Webuild has won a $238m design-and-build contract to expand the Interstate 75 in north-central Florida. Lane Construction will provide auxiliary lanes between interchanges, bridge replacements,…

Engineers have started building the United States’ first “microreactor”, a 1.5MW mobile nuclear reactor compact enough to be shipped in four standard shipping containers. BWXT Advanced Technologies is now fabricating…

The Virginia Passenger Rail Authority (VPRA) has awarded a $414m contract to build the Franconia-Springfield rail bypass to a joint venture of FlatironDragados and Herzog. Located some 15 miles south…

The California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) is suing the Trump administration over what it called the administration’s “illegal termination” of around $4bn in federal grants awarded during the Biden administration…

Google and Brookfield Asset Management have announced a 20-year framework agreement for up to 3GW of hydropower to provide electricity to its datacentres. Initially, the US tech company will buy…

Skanska yesterday marked the topping out of the 35,768-sq-m Living and Learning Center, a student accommodation building for Boston’s Simmons University. It ceremonially placed the uppermost steel beam on the…

Webuild Group’s US subsidiary Lane has won a $337m contract to widen a 16km section of the I-85 highway in Gaston County, North Carolina, a busy commuter route in the…

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have earthquake-tested a 10-story, 100-foot-tall  steel structure, saying it’s the tallest steel structure ever tested with an earthquake simulator, also known as…

Californian contractor Granite has won a $111m contract from the Utah Department of Transportation for road works in the region. Granite’s scope of work includes 5km of rehabilitation work on…