A Virginia Tech coalition with HITT is building a members-only forum and research pool so smaller contractors help pick which construction tech gets tested.
Walmart will build a $1.3B automated fulfillment center in rural Franklin County, Georgia, with construction starting late 2026 and no builder named yet.
Cushman & Wakefield’s Summer 2026 report puts average metro escalation at 4.42% across 18 U.S. markets, with Honolulu at 5.93% and Chicago at 1.42%.
Minnesota and Wisconsin broke ground 31 August on the $1.8B Blatnik Bridge replacement. The design-build competition drew exactly two proposers.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals vacated a $22.58M judgment on 28 August, holding the trial court never adjudicated causation in a 2012 retaining wall form collapse.
The Lowe’s Foundation launched a skilled trades coalition on 1 September with over 75 founding members, and the anchors are a chipmaker, a telecom and two banks.
A final rule published 1 September raises every Cost Accounting Standards threshold effective 1 October, cutting covered business segments by about 60% on the Board’s own math.
GameChange Energy started a 300,000 sq ft transformer factory near Mumbai rated to 500 kV, upsized from 345 kV in five months, with 75% of output earmarked for the U.S.
Everus Construction Group closed its all-cash acquisition of Epsilon Industries on 1 September, buying modular mechanical and electrical manufacturing outright.
A Beyer Blinder Belle life cycle assessment on a live vertical expansion found one extra inch of slab added 250,000 kg of CO2, and that timber priced level with steel.
CivilGrid raised a $26M Series A led by Spark Capital to aggregate utility records, ownership and environmental constraints into one preconstruction site view.
Target Hospitality signed a $250M take-or-pay deal to house 1,100 data center construction workers in the Pecos region, converting idle Permian oilfield camps.
Census put July construction spending at a $2,157.6 billion annual rate, down 3.8% year over year, with private nonresidential the only major category rising.
Construction job openings rose to 326,000 in July at a 3.8% rate, the highest in 23 months, while quits and layoffs both held flat at 1.9% for the month.
OSHA sent its construction fall-protection paperwork to OMB for renewal, putting a number on the standard: 449,782 employers, 6.7M records, 560,607 hours.
Maine regulators selected Clearway for an 800 MW Aroostook wind farm and Avangrid for a 1,200 MW line to New England, five years after the enabling law passed.
FHWA, FRA and FTA finalized their joint NEPA procedures on September 1, effective immediately, leaving three modal rulebooks where one CEQ backbone used to sit.
UCSF picked Suffolk and CO Architects to convert a former Mission Bay biotech building into its School of Dentistry, a $278M progressive design-build job.