The 76ers and Flyers released first exterior renderings of their South Philadelphia arena, designed by Populous and Moody Nolan, with groundbreaking targeted for early 2027.
August’s Dodge Momentum Index slipped 0.4% as data center planning cooled. Remove data centers and commercial planning is down 18.9% from a year ago.
Bally’s CFO resigned weeks after a going-concern warning, and work on the $1.7 billion Chicago casino has already slowed. Subs should be watching payment terms.
Procore closed its $845M DroneDeploy acquisition, betting that reality capture only pays off when the scan lands inside the same platform as the drawings.
With federal resilience money ending, 84% of municipalities report insufficient capital budgets and Massachusetts puts its own need at $90B to $130B through 2050.
The Coalition for Smart Construction at Virginia Tech is building a membership digital commons for construction R&D, seeded with $280,000 in pilots via HITT.
Bechtel reached substantial completion on Cheniere’s Corpus Christi Stage 3, handing over the seventh liquefaction train and lifting capacity above 56 MTPA.
CBRE says North American data center vacancy fell to a record 1.4% in H1 2026 even as construction rose almost 25% and Atlanta overtook Northern Virginia.
The Lowe’s Foundation launched the Building Futures Skilled Trades Coalition with Nvidia, GM, AT&T and 75-plus member firms, targeting 1M trades workers by 2035.
AECOM Tishman leaders describe the World Trade Center rebuild: split stairwells, a 16-floor climbing safety cocoon on One WTC, and a BIM command center at 7 WTC.
The FAA allocated $481M across 191 Airport Infrastructure Grants in 36 states and two territories, with $100M to Atlanta for runway, taxiway and terminal work.
Chobani is buying a 2021-built Allentown plant from Keurig Dr Pepper for $125M and will spend $1.2B scaling it to 1.5M sq ft and 10 production lines.
Washington expanded 50% Section 338 tariffs to specialty paper, some steel and aluminum items, metal fittings and welding inputs from Sept. 15, and cut cement.
Amtrak started a $1 billion maintenance facility at Sunnyside Yard, with Scalamandre and Citnalta as the GC joint venture and phased work running to 2030.
Construction Suicide Prevention Week starts 14 September. Only 32% of worksites with under 20 employees offer an assistance program, against 84% of large ones.
ConstructConnect raised its 2026 nonresidential building forecast to 8.7% growth, but strip out a $77.4B data center gain and commercial is roughly flat.
CargoSense acquired wireless firm Adapt-IP to bring meter-accurate 3D asset tracking in-house, aimed at data center staging rather than the building itself.
Nitradyn won a $581 million firm-fixed-price contract to design, build and commission an IMX-104 explosives plant in Graham, Kentucky by 2030.