New York Just Put Mental Health and Substance Misuse Inside the Card 450,000 Workers Carry
New York put mental health and substance misuse content inside the Site Safety Training card that 450,000 construction workers already have to carry.
Illinois Opened a $25 Million Pre-Apprenticeship Round. Applications Close 2 October.
Round six of Illinois Works offers $150,000 to $550,000 grants across up to 45 construction pre-apprenticeship programs. Applications close 2 October.
Hyundai and POSCO Broke Ground on a $5.8 Billion Louisiana Steel Mill They Can’t Build Yet
Hyundai and POSCO broke ground on a $5.8 billion, 2.7 million-ton electric arc furnace sheet mill in Louisiana. The air permit is not issued yet.
FHWA Has $34 Million for Digital Construction Management and Expects About 35 Applicants
FHWA has up to $34 million for digital construction management systems and its own filing estimates about 35 applicants. Comments close 5 October.
A Stalled Cleveland Office Tower Closed $218 Million With Only $20 Million of Bank Debt
ErieView closed $218M for the Erieview Tower conversion on a $93.4M Nuveen C-PACE loan, with only $20 million of conventional bank debt in the stack.
A 300-Square-Foot Pilot at a Dead Ohio Coal Plant Will Try to Refine Ash Back Into Cement-Grade Fly Ash
PHNX Materials opens a pilot 9 September at Ohio’s shuttered Eastlake coal plant to refine ash into cement-grade fly ash. It is 300 square feet.
A Quarter of Contractors Now Research Equipment With AI First. More Than Half Haven’t Touched It.
AI adoption for equipment research is bimodal: 25.5% of contractors polled use it first, just under 55% not at all, and almost nobody sits between.
92% of Subcontractors Floated Payroll Out of Pocket Last Year. Their Own Pay Apps Are Part of Why.
92% of subcontractors floated payroll while waiting to be paid, a survey of 492 finance staff finds, and pay-app errors are the top internal cause.
A New House Now Costs $25,000 Less Than a Used One, the Widest Gap on Record
The Q2 median new home sold for $410,700 against $435,700 for an existing home. It’s the largest gap in the series, and it isn’t a price cut.
Utah Will Spend $750 Million Putting a 1916 Canal Inside a Pipe
Central Utah Water awarded a Jacobs / Bowen Collins JV $750M to enclose the Strawberry High Line Canal in pressurized pipe for 420,000 future users.
A Wagner Equipment Mechanic Died Under the Machine He Was Servicing in El Paso
Ramiro Aaron Sanchez, 36, was killed September 2 when heavy equipment he was servicing fell on him at an El Paso jobsite. OSHA is investigating.
Construction Unemployment Hit 3.1%, an All-Time Low, and Specialty Trades Took Half the Jobs
Construction added 22,000 jobs in August and the industry unemployment rate fell to 3.1%, a record. Nonresidential building lost 1,800 positions.
Patios Landed on 60.5% of New Homes, the Lowest Share Since 2019
Of roughly 940,000 single-family homes started in 2025, 60.5% got a patio, down from 61.8% and the lowest share in six years. New England doubled.
LA Waived Planning and Zoning Review for Temporary 2028 Games Work. It All Comes Down by Feb. 27, 2029.
An LA ordinance exempts temporary Olympic projects from planning and zoning review, on condition everything is removed by February 27, 2029.
Arcosa Holders Approved CRH’s $8.5 Billion Takeover. Closing Slipped to Q1 2027.
Arcosa stockholders approved CRH’s all-cash $150-a-share acquisition on Sept. 4. The deal hands CRH a much larger U.S. aggregates footprint.
164 Clean Power Projects Came Online in Q2. The Build Pipeline Hit a Record 205 GW.
Developers energized 17.1 GW across 164 projects in Q2 2026 and the construction pipeline reached a record 205 GW. New Mexico ended Texas’s streak.
Caterpillar Is Putting FieldAI’s Robot Foundation Models on Its Machines
Caterpillar will pair its machine data with FieldAI’s robot-agnostic foundation models for autonomous inspection and site digital twins. No terms disclosed.
Single-Family Building Fell 13.9% in Big-City Cores While Multifamily Grew Almost Everywhere
NAHB’s Q2 Home Building Geography Index shows single-family down in six of seven geographies and multifamily up in six of seven. The split is clean.