News Skanska starts $98m expansion of Oregon’s Redmond Municipal Airport Skanska this month starts a $98m project to expand Redmond Municipal Airport in Redmond, Oregon. Due to finish in early 2028, the project will add around 7,400 sq m of…
News Texas quietly abandons border wall after spending $3bn Four years after Texas governor Greg Abbott said his state would be the first to build its own wall on the border with Mexico, the project has been halted, the…
News Power-hungry Meta signs nuclear and geothermal deals Meta, the parent of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, this month signed deals securing sources of nuclear and geothermal power as it races to secure enough energy to develop AI. On…
News JetZero to build $4.7bn factory in North Carolina JetZero, the California company shaking up airliner design, plans to build a $4.7bn plane factory at Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, North Carolina. The plant will be able to…
News Turner Construction to build stadium for California’s Republic FC Turner Construction has won a contract to build a 12,000-seat stadium for Californian football team Republic FC in downtown Sacramento. It may later be expanded to 15,000. The total development…
News Belgian pharma company to invest $5bn on US factory Belgian pharmaceutical company UCB says it plans to invest $5bn in a US factory to avoid President Trump’s tariffs on the EU. It makes drugs to treat diseases of the…
News Skills shortage costs US economy billions, study finds A study carried out by the University of Denver and released this week finds that the chronic shortage of skilled labour is costing the single-family home building sector, and the…
News Amazon to invest $20bn in Pennsylvania campuses Amazon will invest at least $20bn setting up cloud computing and AI innovation campuses in Pennsylvania, with Salem Township, Luzerne County and Falls Township, Bucks County confirmed as the first…
News Walsh Construction to replace decrepit Providence bridge for $339m The state of Rhode Island has picked Walsh Construction Company to replace the decrepit I-95 Washington Bridge in Providence for $339m, creating some light at the end of the tunnel…
News Skanska wins two US contracts worth $514m Skanska has a contract to replace a road bridge in Massachusetts, and another to construct an engineering building at Virginia Tech University. The first, which is worth $274m, was signed…
News Chicago Fire soccer team to build their own stadium After sharing a venue with American football team the Chicago Bears, Chicago’s Major League Soccer side Chicago Fire will build its own 22,000 capacity stadium in the city’s under-development 78th…
News Aecom, Turner to kick off major overhaul of downtown Dallas A joint venture led by Aecom company Aecom Hunt and Turner Construction will be construction-manager-at-risk for the first component of a multi-billion-dollar overhaul of downtown Dallas: the Kay Bailey Hutchison…
News Boeing picks Jacobs to design a 1 million sq ft expansion of Missouri campus Aerospace company Boeing has chosen US engineer Jacobs to design the 1.1 sq ft expansion of its campus in St Louis, Missouri. The expansion, which Boeing says will cost “multi-billions”,…
News Trump threatens funding for California fast rail, but 67% of voters support it As the Trump administration threatened this week to cancel around $4bn in funding for California’s under-construction high-speed railway, a survey showed 67% of voters in the state support the project.…
News Florida worker dies in gruesome incident, another charged with manslaughter A construction worker died in a gruesome incident at a construction site in central Florida on Wednesday, and a fellow worker has been charged with second-degree manslaughter. The men were…
News Netflix starts $1bn production studio on old New Jersey army base Streaming giant Netflix has broken ground on a $1bn, 292-acre production studio located on a former US Army base in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. The facility will have production areas…
News General Motors to spend $888m on V-8 engine plant US vehicle manufacturer General Motors says it will spend $888m on a plant to make V-8 engines in Tonawanda, near Buffalo in New York State. It’s the company’s biggest single…
News ICE raid detains more than 100 workers in Florida The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency arrested more than 100 undocumented construction workers at sites around the Florida capital Tallahassee on Thursday. Masked officers in camouflage were seen…