News Tallest building in US faces delay over flight safety fears Work on the tallest building in the US has been delayed over fears that it may pose a danger to aircraft, Archinect reports. The Legends Tower in Oklahoma City would…
News New York’s $10bn bus terminal revamp is going ahead New Yorkers are bracing for a minimum eight-year megaproject in Midtown Manhattan after the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) approved a $10bn plan to tear down and replace the world’s busiest…
News Skanska to renovate Nashville’s war memorial plaza Skanska has signed a $126m contract with the Tennessee Department of General Services to renovate downtown Nashville’s Legislative Plaza, a 1975 development that offers spaces for public events above government…
News Balfour Beatty to build stormwater treatment system under California school UK-headquartered Balfour Beatty has won a contract worth around $60m to build a stormwater capture system under a high school in La Puente, California. As construction manager at-risk, it will…
News Jacobs JV wins $160m project to sweeten California’s salty groundwater A joint venture of Jacobs and McCarthy has won a $160m contract to improve groundwater desalination capacity in southern California, where over-extraction of groundwater in the first half of the…
News Construction starts on $1.6bn Dallas Fort Worth Terminal F Ground has broken on Terminal F at Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) airport in Texas, a $1.6bn project that will contain 15 gates and a 400,000 sq ft concourse. Terminal F…
News ‘They’d lose half their labour’: Texas builder sounds warning over Trump deportation plans A contractor in Texas has warned that construction will suffer if Donald Trump fulfils his main campaign pledge to round up and deport millions of undocumented migrants. Around 295,400 undocumented…
News Tutor Perini team wins $1.1bn Newark airport light rail contract A joint venture between Tutor Perini and O&G Industries has been awarded a $1.2bn contract to design and build a 4km-long elevated railway at New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport.…
News AtkinsRéalis, Jacobs and Westinghouse win $2.3bn nuclear contract A team made up of North American engineers AtkinsRéalis, Jacobs and Westinghouse has landed a 10-year contract worth $2.3bn to operate a nuclear waste treatment plant for the US Department…
Perspectives I run this company. Here are my top three tips for women in construction Dawn Lowers-Davis is President and CEO of Lowers Welding & Fabrication, a family firm founded in 1973 in Santa Fe Springs, California. Construction is part of who I am. My…
News Turner to build $2bn Ohio data centre campus Turner Construction has broken ground on a $2bn data centre campus in New Albany, central Ohio. The project, which is for IT services company Vantage, will have a floor area…
News Skanska completes $233m Boston school in time for the bell Skanska’s programme management group, Skanska Integrated Solutions, has finished the new Josiah Quincy Upper School in Boston’s Chinatown in time for the 2024 school year, earning praise from the city.…
News Work is finished on Studio Gang’s mass-timber extension for Californian art college Work has been completed on an expansion designed by New York architect Studio Gang for the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. The concrete ground-floor level houses workshops…
News Herzog & de Meuron to turn a brutalist icon into Sotheby’s New York HQ Swiss architect Herzog & de Meuron and New York’s PBDW Architects have been selected to renovate 945 Madison Avenue in New York City into the headquarters of art broker Sotheby’s.…
News Balfour Beatty wins $746m contract to unclog Austin’s I-35 UK-headquartered Balfour Beatty has won a $746m contract from the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to upgrade part of the Interstate 35 (I-35) through Austin, Texas. It will rebuild around…
News Microsoft is building a timber data centre Microsoft is building a data centre with some cross-laminated timber (CLT) as it tries to become carbon-negative by 2030. The demonstration project in northern Virginia will aim to use enough…
News US-Chinese team to masterplan a science district in Hangzhou US architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) and Chinese designer GAD have won a competition to masterplan a research district in the city of Hangzhou, about 100km west of Shanghai.…
News KPF’s Fifth Avenue tower is ‘modern interpretation’ of the iconic Manhattan skyscraper KPF’s 1,002ft-tall 520 Fifth Avenue tower has topped out in Manhattan, allowing New Yorkers to admire tiered setbacks and grand arched windows that recall the city’s classic beaux-arts skyscrapers. This…
