A Stratus survey of MEP contractors puts shop space ahead of skilled labor as the top prefab constraint, and Southland and DPR have the buildings to match.
Martin Marietta closed its combination with Lhoist North America on August 21, adding lime to an aggregates major and shortening the supplier list forpaving.
TRISO-X started the next phase at its Oak Ridge fuel plant, moving Clark Construction from concrete and steel into licensed process-equipment installation.
Fluor filed to cut 66 workers at Novelis Bay Minette effective July 31, the clearest public signal that a five-year, $5 billion Alabama megaproject is ending.
ARA’s quarterly forecast puts U.S. construction and general tool rental at $83.5B in 2026, and raises 2027 to 4.4% and 2028 to 5.1%.
MDTA is taking bids on the $50M-$100M Key Bridge demolition and marine package, the second of four contracts after Kiewit was off-ramped in April.
Massachusetts’ high court held that holding the building permit and OSHA’s fall standard create no duty to supervise a subcontractor’s jobsite safety.
NYCHA awarded 40 mentorship contracts across three trades in a program walking entry-level contractors through Job Order Contracting on public housing.
ProVia committed about $230M and 800 jobs to new Ohio and North Carolina plants in the same nine days Cornerstone filed to close an Ohio window plant.
The ICC folded the ICC/MBI 1200-series off-site construction standards into the 2027 IBC and IRC, and the Pentagon already specifies them in the UFC.
Construction Partners closed on Asphalt Express of Ardmore, Oklahoma, acquiring a rail-served site it expects to turn into a liquid asphalt terminal.
King County opened its South County Recycling and Transfer Station in Algona with solar on 74% of the roof and 2.5M lb of C&D waste diverted.
Burns & McDonnell partnered with robotics startup Gritt on AI systems that bolt onto standard construction equipment for utility-scale solar work.
JE Dunn formed a Power Generation business unit on August 27, moving a top-ranked building contractor into EPC and hybrid generation delivery.
Census SOMA data shows three-month absorption of newly completed apartments fell to 41%, a seventh straight quarter below 50%, while asking rents on that same product rose 6.5%.
MSHA’s August 24 preliminary report records a contract driller killed by falling rock at a Connecticut crushed-stone pit, in a year when construction-materials operations carry a growing share of U.S. mining deaths.
Lightcast has published a standardized SOC-code definition of the skilled trades, which for the first time gives contractors and CTE programs a common denominator for pipeline math.
A 1947 Pennsylvania family cement business is opening rail-served terminals in South Carolina and Ohio, distributing Type I/II low-alkali cement and Grade 120 slag into two building markets.