EPA’s proposal to amend SCR inducement provisions covers nonroad engines and equipment, not just highway trucks, and is taking comment on converting in-use machines from derates to warnings.
CF Industries, JERA and Mitsui broke ground August 26 on a $3.7 billion low-carbon ammonia plant in Ascension Parish, with three parallel capital programs running on one Louisiana site.
MARS Energy Group has bought Citadel Roofing & Solar, a Northern California new-construction contractor, adding more than 1,000 field employees in a single undisclosed transaction.
UCLA modelling puts concrete’s natural CO2 reabsorption at under 10% of cement industry emissions, against published estimates as high as 57%, and the end-of-life assumption is the weakest link.
Global Energy Monitor says U.S. gas capacity tied to data centers doubled to 189 GW in six months, and developers who can’t get turbines are buying reciprocating engines instead.
Builders FirstSource led all $25.3 million of Digs’ Series A and signed a five-year commercial deal, putting a materials distributor in charge of the workflow layer above its own product data.
SpaceX committed $100B to a 125,000-acre Louisiana spaceport with five launch complexes, its own generation and worker housing. Construction starts in 2027.
A TrueLook benchmark of 3,500+ utilities projects finds 46 megaprojects carry 37.6% of all dollars, and the median job goes from bid to groundbreaking in 45 days.
More than 350 drivers at 15 CalPortland plants struck for two weeks, choking Bay Area concrete supply. They ratified a one-year deal on August 21.
Washington Ecology cited 35 violations after a tank failure killed 11 at a Longview mill. The regulator says it never had jurisdiction over the tank’s structure.
The Texas Transportation Commission approved a $138B ten-year program on August 27. It is 5.5% smaller than the last one, driven by a $4.4B federal shortfall.
The same house cost 6.7% more in materials this year. Small builders reported 9.1%; builders with 100+ starts reported 1.8%. Scale is the whole gap.
NYCEDC launched a year-long Circular Construction Hub in Sunset Park to find out whether salvaged building material can clear the market. Small subs are the customer.
The Army’s $2.2B Janus program awarded five microreactor developers contractor-owned, contractor-operated builds at five bases. First power targeted for September 2028.
CivilGrid raised $26M to map what’s under the street. PG&E put a number on it: $60M in avoidable paving across 1,600 gas distribution projects.
Kairos Power installed 70 drilled piers on a throwaway test building before touching the 51 safety-related piers on Hermes 1. That is a learning curve, priced.
New single-family home sales fell to a 607,000 annual rate in July while inventory rose, pushing months’ supply to 9.6 — the number that governs single-family starts.
South Dakota picked Ames Construction for a $290M replacement of the Platte-Winner bridge, its largest project ever, with a $161M spread between the four bidders.