Alquist printed a 5,000-sq-ft Walmart expansion in 75 hours. 3D concrete printing is moving from demo walls to paid commercial work, but the economics aren’t universal yet.
The Mass Timber Federal Buildings Act is back for a third year, giving engineered wood a contracting preference for federal and military construction projects.
Carbon-negative concrete made with biochar hit a real London jobsite this year, as low-carbon mixes shift from pilot batches to materials owners can actually specify.
Construction wage growth is cooling in 2026, with compensation costs up 3.2% year over year, a sign the labor market is stabilizing even as the worker shortage holds.
US data center construction spending topped $50 billion in 2026, outpacing public transportation work for the first time and propping up an otherwise flat nonresidential market.
The Foothill Gold Line authority picked a Skanska-Stacy Witbeck-Herzog JV to manage the LA Metro A Line extension to Claremont, kicking off an 18-month preconstruction phase.
AI-powered exoskeletons are moving from jobsite pilots to off-the-shelf gear in 2026, as German Bionic and Sumbu ship suits that learn how each worker lifts.
Modular construction is climbing higher in 2026, with a 16-story stacked-module tower in Abu Dhabi and offsite factories scaling to chase housing shortages.
Nemetschek’s $2.4B HCSS acquisition, its largest ever, pushes the contech firm into heavy-civil contractor software and signals more consolidation ahead.
Potable water reuse is going mainstream as El Paso builds the first U.S. direct-to-distribution plant, turning wastewater into drinking water for drought defense.
All-electric building codes took effect in New York and California in 2026, banning gas hookups in most new construction and pushing heat pumps to the default.
Contractor failures and subcontractor defaults are climbing in 2026 as material costs outrun bid prices and squeeze the thin margins that hold projects together.
Rebar-tying robots like TyBOT and IronBOT have logged 65+ field deployments and 4M+ ties, cutting deck schedules and injuries on heavy civil jobs.
DCT Abu Dhabi handed ALEC a $1.7B design-procure-build contract for Sphere Abu Dhabi on Yas Island, the world’s second Sphere, targeting Q3 2029.
USACE set up a $2B multiple-award contract for military energy resilience, naming Parsons and Tutor Perini’s PMSI to compete for ERCIP task orders.
Contractors need roughly 349,000 net new workers in 2026 as ICE enforcement, retirements, and data center demand collide. A look at the construction labor shortage.
Top 400 contractor revenue rose 11.8% to $671.4B in 2025, with data center and telecom work driving the gain and the ten biggest firms taking 23% of it.
Airport construction is racing fixed deadlines as the 2026 World Cup and new megaterminals from New York to Vietnam push crews toward hard, unmovable open dates.