After July 1, 2026, every new LEED registration must use v5, which makes embodied carbon reporting a prerequisite for certification. It’s the most significant rewrite of the standard in over a decade.
Turner Construction made its SafeT Coach AI safety assistant free to the entire construction industry during Safety Week 2026, ChatGPT-grounded and trained on 25,000 field interactions.
ABC reports construction input prices rose 1.7% in April and 6.2% year to date. That’s more inflation in four months than the prior three years combined, driven by energy and tariff-exposed metals.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection awarded Southwest Valley Constructors a $1.7B Big Bend border wall contract on May 11. A week earlier the agency said it wouldn’t build a wall there.
Bechtel and NABTU signed an MOU to modernize craft apprenticeships for U.S. nuclear builds, naming Vogtle and the Natrium reactor in Kemmerer, Wyoming as the case studies.
AB 130, SB 131, and SB 79 take effect across 2026, exempting more infill housing from CEQA and overriding local height limits near transit. It’s the most consequential California permit reform in two decades.
Crusoe has topped out the eighth and final building of Phase 1 at the OpenAI Stargate campus in Abilene, Texas, capping a 1.2 GW, 4-million-square-foot data center build that’s now the largest under one fence in the U.S.
A second wave of the NABTU-Microsoft partnership puts free AI literacy credentials inside union JATCs in all 50 states and Canada, plus TradesFutures programs in 34 states.
Limestone calcined clay cement is exiting the demonstration phase. Holcim’s Ecuador plant produces up to 2 million tons a year, and roughly 35 facilities globally now run LC3 or calcined clay.
A November trench collapse on a Yarmouth sewer job killed one worker, and OSHA has now answered with 57 citations and $4.7M in proposed penalties against Revoli Construction.
TyBOT ties 1,100 rebar intersections an hour, Dusty’s FieldPrinter cuts layout time 75%, and the autonomous construction equipment market is on track for $18.16B by year-end.
ABC’s Backlog Indicator rose to 8.8 months in April, the highest reading in 10 months — but the gains are concentrated almost entirely in contractors with data center work.
Interior’s final appeal deadline lapsed in April, letting Vineyard Wind, Revolution Wind, Sunrise Wind, South Fork Wind and Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind finish construction under existing injunctions.
Skanska USA Civil’s $1.06 billion design-build win replaces the 1930-era Draw One bridges across the Charles, expanding North Station from four tracks to six by 2032.
Haslam Sports Group broke ground on the $2.4B HKS-designed enclosed stadium in Brook Park, with AECOM Hunt / Turner as construction manager and a 2029 opening targeted.
ABC pegs 2026 demand at 349,000 net new hires. AGC’s latest survey shows 28% of firms hit by ICE activity and wage hikes running 9–11% in tight trades.
March ABI hit 49.8, the highest reading since Q1 2023. All three sectors crossed above 50 and backlogs climbed to 6.6 months. New design contracts still slipped.
Type 1L PLC now has 44 state DOT approvals and Holcim’s Midlothian, Texas plant runs exclusively on the lower-carbon mix. The 10% emissions cut is now a procurement question.