Santa Monica’s $77.5 million reverse osmosis retrofit and groundwater project lifted RO recovery past 90% and won ENR West’s top sustainability award Oct. 26.
Track3D now charges only for construction progress tracking, at $0.15 per square foot, and includes 360-degree photos free. Its proof is one Hensel Phelps job.
Kiewit’s Homer City workforce passed 2,000 a year after it started on site, doubling since March, with 135-plus apprentices and zero OSHA recordables reported.
Cal/OSHA’s proposed egregious and enterprise-wide violation rules would fine per exposed worker and per jobsite. Comments close Nov. 30; the hearing is Dec. 3.
Hillsboro’s new data center zoning cuts eligible land from about 6,600 acres to 608 and takes effect Nov. 19, while Oregon’s DEQ holds permits until July 2027.
Louisiana’s four AI data centers, worth $81.6B, are all under construction at once. Sales tax near the sites is spiking, mostly from construction purchases.
JE Dunn is CM at risk on MSP’s $480M Terminal 1 boiler and chiller replacement. The plant must run nonstop while six Concourse C gate areas are rebuilt.
State construction employment rose in 34 states and D.C. over the year to September, led by Louisiana’s 13.9% jump, while Georgia and California shed the most.
The Royals picked Legends Global as owner’s rep for a $3 billion downtown Kansas City ballpark district. Mortenson and McCownGordon build the 34,000-seat park.
CRH closed its $8.5 billion Arcosa acquisition Oct. 23, a quarter ahead of plan, adding 109 aggregates quarries and yards and a utility structures business.
Waldorf Astoria Miami, Florida’s first supertall, passed 870 feet using 12,000-psi concrete, a redesigned forming system and a 1,000-ton tuned mass damper.
PulteGroup’s Q3 net new orders fell 6% to 6,208 homes as its community count rose 7%, and home sale gross margin fell to 24.8% with $26 million of impairments.
The Nuclear Company proposed Prosperity One, a 6.6 GW, six-AP1000 nuclear campus on the Ohio River in Kentucky. Construction is targeted for 2028.
OSHA proposed $380,664 in trench penalties against Always Underground LLC after finding workers in an unprotected 8-foot cut. Three citations are repeats.
Ørsted finished building its 300 MW/600 MWh Iceni battery beside Hornsea 3’s converter station. Two halves are tied together by eighteen 33 kV cables.
CemBlend and Hepworth Clay launched HepCem, a calcined clay that replaces 20% to 35% of Portland cement, pitched as an answer to tight slag and fly ash supply.
EPA approved Virginia’s partial coal ash permit program effective Nov. 23. Its 25 CCR units face two rulebooks, and old permits carry no federal shield.
PennDOT’s first CTE grant round sends $11.8 million to 27 schools for heavy highway workforce training, with inspector, CDL and welding programs prominent.