The CREFC sentiment index dropped 17.5% to 83.3 in Q3, a three-year low. Lenders expect tighter terms, weaker borrower demand and wider data center spreads.
Construction AI exposure rates low or moderate in 45 of 47 occupations, NAHB finds in BLS data. The catch: the underlying studies stop at mid-2023.
California reach codes from 15 cities and counties are waiting on state approval under AB 130. Fourteen local heat pump rules hang on the outcome.
Steel plate prices rise $60 a ton at Nucor and SSAB for November, HSS is up $100 and plate lead times are at a record. Check your quote dates.
A proposed vertical data center in Kansas City prices out at $183 million for 24 MW. MEP and fire protection are 64% of the hard cost. Here’s why.
Skanska U.S. contracts worth $519 million were announced Oct. 2 and 5: a Navy pier, a Florida hospital and two schools, all booked to a closed Q3.
CupixWorks 5.0 ties 360 capture to P6 schedules, Procore and Maximo so the site record outlives turnover. The beta is invite-only, with no price.
A $4.8 billion Jayton data center campus tied to Crusoe appears in two Texas filings: 759,262 square feet each, HKS designing, a January 2027 start.
Construction employment rose 11,000 in September, all of it from nonresidential subs. Residential trades lost 7,900 jobs and the average workweek got shorter.
OSHA’s Harwood training grants total $10.2 million for fiscal 2026, down about 20%. We counted 38 awards that cover construction, from work zones to trenching.
FHWA’s proposed NEPA assignment MOU would let GDOT approve its own highway environmental reviews. Comments close Nov. 2, and the state takes the lawsuits.
A 6% ROCKWOOL price increase hits 14 U.S. stone wool lines Jan. 1, on top of July’s 8%. With 66-day lead times, late-October orders may ship at 2027 prices.
Metro construction employment rose in just 49% of U.S. areas over the past year, AGC found. Houston and Baton Rouge led. Atlanta and four California metros fell
Construction payroll vendor Miter raised a $40M Series B led by Battery Ventures. Its claim to pay 2% of U.S. construction workers comes with no headcount.
Gilbane and Marvel delivered NYC’s $128M all-electric building in Brownsville two years early. The savings are measured against the city’s own estimate.
Amazon’s 20-year deal backs a 190 MW Calvert Cliffs uprate and $3B of plant work. Constellation hasn’t named a contractor or said how the money splits.
Surplus lab space is leasing to AI hardware and chip firms. A Longfellow executive puts the retrofit at 10 more watts per square foot, not a new building.
Cardinal Infrastructure closed its Allied Paving acquisition in Atlanta for about $120M in cash and stock. Two releases give two revenue figures for Allied.