Tag: skanska
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Skanska buoyed by insights from OpenSpace reality capture data
Jeevan Kalanithi, co-founder and CEO of OpenSpace, added: “For years, reality capture has been treated as a nice-to-have – useful for documentation or dispute resolution. With today’s launch, we are moving beyond reality capture and redefining reality data as a strategic asset that simplifies workflows and fuels results, from the field to the C-suite. We…
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Skanska Report Highlights 2025 Construction Market Trends Amid Tariffs and Rising Material Costs
Skanska has released its Summer 2025 Construction Market Trends Report, offering analysis on the impacts of tariffs, supply chain conditions and material pricing on the U.S. construction industry. According to the report, total construction starts rose 16% in June to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1.33 trillion, largely driven by manufacturing and data center…
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Skanska Strengthens South Florida Building Division With New VP
Skanska has promoted Frank Longo to vice president – account manager for its South Florida operations. The appointment, effective Aug. 2, expands Longo’s responsibilities to include managing client relationships and supporting project growth across Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties. Longo, who has been with Skanska for two decades and has more than 40 years…
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Skanska hires CIOB fellow as divisional director for target markets
Skanska UK has appointed James Davies FCIOB as divisional director to oversee major construction projects in regions, defence and healthcare. Davies joins from Laing O’Rourke, where he has held the post of operations leader since November 2022. His over two-decade career in construction includes a three-year stint at ISG, where he was director of major…
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Skanska intern builds on her interest in sustainable construction
Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. This article is one in a series of conversations with women leaders in the construction industry. Click here for past discussions. Purdue University engineering student Shivani Pemaraj developed an interest in green building technologies and practices in…
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Skanska intern builds on her interest in sustainable construction
Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. This article is one in a series of conversations with women leaders in the construction industry. Click here for past discussions. Purdue University engineering student Shivani Pemaraj developed an interest in green building technologies and practices in…
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Video | Skanska receives huge steel beams for new Penrith railway bridge
Skanska has overseen the delivery of five huge ‘VIBs’ (very important beams) that will be used for major sections of a replacement railway bridge over the M6 next year. The contractor is delivering the £60m project for Network Rail to replace Clifton railway bridge near Penrith after the old bridge reached the end of its life…
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Skanska CEO says its selective strategy reduces risk
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Remaining selective and planning for risk have been key to Skanska’s profitability. CEO Anders Danielsson said the firm has been more discerning about only taking on projects and clients in sectors where it has seen success in…
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Skanska, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Top Out Campus Building
Skanska and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) celebrated the topping out of the Artificial Intelligence and Quantitative Biology (AIQB) building at CSHL. This marks a key milestone of Phase I of CSHL’s Foundations for the Future campaign that aims to invest in the institute’s infrastructure so that research and educational programs are supported to confront scientific…
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Skanska wins £153m upgrade of Thickthorn Interchange
National Highways has appointed Skanska to deliver a £153m upgrade of the A47/A11 Thickthorn junction near Norwich. The contract includes the construction of a new 1.6km free-flow link road connecting the A11 northbound to the A47 eastbound through two new underpasses, and a second local link road of around 1km connecting Cantley Lane South with…