Skanska Puts Its AI Team Inside the Business, Not Beside It
Skanska USA Building created a digital transformation and solutions team reporting to its COO, led by 20-year company veteran Will Senner as SVP.
Sawmill Capacity, Not Demand, Is Driving Lumber Prices Now
Southern Pine 2×12 rose 10.7% in a month with housing starts weak, pointing at a supply-side squeeze: mill closures, 35.9% Canadian duties and log exports.
Office Conversions Have a Structural Problem, and 235 East 42nd Proved It
A past ASCE president says the conversion itself likely contributed to the column buckling at 235 East 42nd Street, and expects more incidents to follow.
The Data Center Boom Is Now a Talent Fight, and PCL Is Staffing For It
PCL named Tyler Kautz regional VP of digital infrastructure and added two senior operations roles as it projects digital infrastructure demand to double by 2031.
The IIJA Expires September 30 and the Trust Fund Math Doesn’t Work
The $1.2 trillion infrastructure law expires Sept. 30, and holding spending flat would need $102 billion a year against a trust fund taking in $44 billion.
Skanska Books a Record $7B Quarter and 21 Months of Backlog
Skanska reported 68 billion krona in Q2 order bookings, a company record, with backlog reaching 297.5 billion krona and 21 months of work.
Crusoe and Lancium Take Their Abilene Playbook to Childress, Texas
Crusoe and Lancium announced a 1-gigawatt AI data center campus on 270 acres in Childress, Texas, with construction starting in the third quarter of 2026.
Google Anchors the Largest U.S. Solar Project as Steel River Breaks Ground
Cypress Creek Energy started construction on Steel River in Arkansas, a 2.5 GWdc solar and storage campus with Google as anchor investor and offtaker.
Housing Starts Jumped 19% in June, and All of It Was Multifamily
June housing starts hit a 1.427 million annual rate, up 19% from May, but single-family fell for a third straight month and permits slipped 3%.
New York Freezes New Hyperscale Data Centers for Up to a Year
Gov. Hochul’s executive order pauses state permits for data centers drawing 50 MW or more, the first statewide hyperscale moratorium in the U.S.
Micron Starts Foundations on Its $100B New York Megafab
Micron began placing foundations at its $100B Clay, N.Y. semiconductor campus in July, a quarter ahead of schedule, with Bechtel leading the build.
Labor Dept. Puts $162M Into Pay-for-Performance Apprenticeships
The U.S. Labor Department awarded $162M in performance-based Registered Apprenticeship grants, tying federal money to apprentice retention and progression milestones.
Kiln-Free Cement Reaches Commercial Scale in Massachusetts
Sublime Systems’ Holyoke plant and other first-of-a-kind facilities are moving low-carbon cement from lab to commercial production, backed by DOE funding.
A Bricklaying Robot Startup Raises $32M for Its U.S. Launch
Monumental raised a $32M Series B led by Khosla Ventures to bring its autonomous bricklaying robots to the U.S., as construction robotics moves from pilot to production.
Material Costs Are Climbing Again as a Tariff Deadline Looms
Nonresidential input prices surged at a 12.6% annualized rate early in 2026 as steel sits at 50% tariffs and a global 10% tariff is set to expire July 24.
The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act Is Now Law
The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act was authorized July 11 after months of House-Senate wrangling, tying housing production to transportation and infrastructure policy.
OSHA’s Silica Crackdown Is Real: Citations Up 22%, One Hits $487K
Silica citations in construction jumped 22% last year and average $42,300, with OSHA fining a Phoenix contractor $487,000 for unprotected masonry-saw work.
MBTA Hands a $1.06B Boston Rail-Bridge Job to a Skanska–Koch JV
The MBTA awarded a $1.06B design-build contract to a Skanska Civil Northeast/Koch JV to replace the aging Draw One rail bridges at Boston’s North Station.