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US construction contractors warn of weaker conditions in 2024
The US construction market faces “meaningfully weaker” conditions in 2024 as economic headwinds build, Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) has warned.
ABB celebrates ‘floor pour’ of new US flagship campus
ABB invests US$100m in new US manufacturing facility
Granite wins $126m construction deal to relocate US marines
US commercial construction demand to remain strong ‘for foreseeable future’
Total construction spending in the US declined by 0.1% in February, as demand for data centres and manufacturing plants offset weaker single-family homebuilding and public construction.
Two construction workers killed at John F. Kennedy airport
Two construction workers died at the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City on Monday after being trapped under construction rubble.
Watch the changing fortunes of the top 20 US construction companies over the last decade
Watch an animated graph showing how the top 20 US construction companies have traded places over the last 10 years.
Next-gen Rokbak haulers in development
Company showcases fuel-efficiency and low emissions with RA30 and RA40 articulated models 
Engineering consultants chosen for $700m New York transportation construction programme
Joint venture will deliver 50 infrastructure projects for New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) by 2024.
New Holland Construction reveals electric mini excavator
New model is company’s first commercially available EV machine
Controlling machinery from a distance
Caterpillar’s Matt Hendry talks us through how the Cat Command station works 
Excavator stacks ‘brick tower’
VIDEO: Kinshofer demonstrates precision control with excavator attachment 
US infrastructure contracts for European contractor
Hochtief’s US civil infrastructure construction subsidiary awarded contracts worth more than US$740 million 
Video: Leica’s augmented reality experience
See how a major construction project in Austria has been digitised and turned into an augmented reality experience 
Electric and diesel rollers presented at construction event
Manufacturer Bomag highlights both sustainability and productivity
Video: Takeuchi electric excavator walkaround
Austin Smith, regional product manager at Takeuchi US, gives the lowdown on the new TB20e electric excavator 
Fleet builder: Alta eMobility founded to help integrate batteries, hydrogen into fleets
New business already has working partnerships with Nikola, BorgWarner
JCB’s hydrogen engine: ‘We weren’t sure whether it was possible’
Team behind JCB’s hydrogen internal combustion engine for construction equipment wasn’t initially sure it would work.
US’s ‘safest’ construction company named
Hensel Phelps has won the title of the ‘safest construction company’ in 2022 in the USA.
Construction employment rises in 45 US states
Construction employment rose in 45 US states between February 2022 and February 2023.
Ferrovial in new partnership to build vertiports for eVTOL aircraft
Ferrovial Airports has developed a new partnership with a communications software firm as it moves forward with plans to build vertiports for electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.
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