AECOM and NIVIDA: Top 5 Construction Stories This Week
AECOM has been appointed lead engineering consultant on the potential redevelopment of the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), one of the world's largest and most active sporting venues.
The firm will work alongside lead architects Architectus, Foster + Partners and MANICA to support a AU$15m (US$10.6m) business case for a project estimated to cost AU$2bn (US$1.4bn).
The appointment was made by Development Victoria, which is working with the Victorian Government, Melbourne Cricket Club and the MCG Trust to investigate the future requirements of the stadium and its precinct.
Suffolk Launches AI Engineers on US Jobsites
Suffolk Construction is placing AI engineers on active jobsites across the US, in a move the company says will reshape how construction projects are planned and delivered.
The initiative, called Jobsite of the Future, has the power to significantly cut rework costs, as well as speed up overall project delivery, according to Suffolk. It is part of Suffolk’s US$100m investment into new data systems and innovation capabilities.
"Jobsite of the Future is our boldest investment yet," says John Fish, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Suffolk. "As costs continue to rise, labour shortages persist and productivity declines, the construction industry has reached an inflection point."
Coherent & NVIDIA's US$650m Texas Facility Breaks Ground
A US$650m expansion of Coherent's semiconductor manufacturing campus in Sherman, Texas has broken ground, with plans to double the site's production space and create more than 1,000 jobs.
The project expands an existing 700,000 square-foot facility that was originally built as a silicon wafer fab by Texas Instruments, before being acquired by Finisar in 2017 and eventually passing to Coherent through the II-VI merger.
The expansion will add a new manufacturing building alongside advanced cleanroom capacity and wafer fabrication equipment.
UK Government Targets Rogue Retrofit Contractors
The UK Government has unveiled plans to overhaul accountability standards in the country's retrofit sector, introducing powers to ban contractors and mandatory performance monitoring systems.
The reforms follow years of complaints about poor workmanship on retrofitting projects carried out under previous government schemes, particularly solid wall insulation installed under the Energy Company Obligation 4 and Great British Insulation Scheme.
Ministers attribute much of the blame to inherited scheme design rather than current policy.
Zurich: Insurability Must Be Built In at Design Stage
Zurich Insurance Group is calling for insurers to be involved at the design stage of construction projects, as intensifying risks make projects harder to insure.
It argues that rising pressures around labour supply and cyber threats are making insurability a condition of projects receiving financing, rather than a consequence of it.
The report, Beyond 2030: The Future of Construction, is compiled with input from 31 experts across underwriting, claims, risk engineering and construction, gathered through interviews between December 2025 and March 2026.
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