A 46-firm group including SOM, HOK and HKS picked Acelab to help write an open materials data standard. There’s no schema or timeline yet, and that matters.
Six stadium contracts worth about $11B were awarded this summer, with Mortenson on three. Now an engineering firm is buying a sports-field specialist too.
Milwaukee Tool joined the Google-founded skilled trades alliance and says its U.S. trades training spend will top $200M by 2030. That total counts back to 2010.
USGS says U.S. cement shipments hit 8.94 million metric tons in May, up 0.3% on 2025 but 6.8% under the five-year May average. Masonry cement fell 14.1%.
OSHA’s new naloxone fact sheet tells employers to stock overdose reversal meds beside the AED and train crews. Construction has the highest overdose rate.
Alabama issued notice to proceed on the $3.2B Mobile River Bridge and Bayway. Kiewit Massman Traylor builds, tolls start in 2031, and the Bayway waits to 2036.
HUD set the Section 108 loan guarantee fee at 1.05% of principal for FY 2027 commitments, up from 0.58%, even though no Section 108 loan has ever defaulted.
RLB’s construction cost index rose 1.28% in Q3 2026, its fastest quarter in two years. Annual escalation hit 4.45%, from 1.74% in Chicago to 6.49% in Honolulu.
Megaproject starts pushed East North Central nonresidential starts up 77.5% through August while West Coast civil work fell 20% or more, ConstructConnect says.
Caterpillar agreed to acquire Fabick Cat, a 37-location dealer covering Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan’s U.P. No price. Close is due in 30 days.
New York’s $75M heat pump incentive for all-electric new homes anchors a $135M package. Ettinger Engineering is on three of the 10 award-winning projects.
Richmond Habitat and Virginia Tech broke ground on five 3D-printed homes in Henrico. The 2024 grant plan promised 10 by 2026, and walls start printing now.
A STACK survey of 500 U.S. construction workers aged 18-35 found 75% had no formal training. The vendor sells knowledge-sharing software. Both things are true.
The USW shifted its U.S. Steel and Cleveland-Cliffs contracts to rolling 48-hour extensions before the Oct. 1 deadline. Buyers should be watching lead times.
Two ATF proposed rules would carve exceptions into locked-magazine storage for explosives awaiting imminent use, testing or transport. Comments close Nov. 24.
Bechtel, Westinghouse and PEJ agreed main terms for three AP1000 units at Lubiatowo-Kopalino. First nuclear concrete targets the fourth quarter of 2028.
SB 716 raises local-ordinance fines to $50,000 a violation at nonresidential buildings over 20,000 sq ft. AB 817 adds contingency funds at large cold stores.
England logged 35,910 housing starts in Q2, up 20% year on year, with a record 5,758 cleared through the Building Safety Regulator gateway.