Turner Told 6,098 People a Ransomware Crew Took Their Bank Details
Turner Construction began mailing breach notices Aug. 18. Exposed: SSNs, salaries, direct-deposit accounts and some passport numbers.
Deere’s Construction Profit Jumped 84% While Its Farm Business Sank
Deere’s construction and forestry unit made $436M last quarter, up 84%. Ag went the other way. The split is the clearest read yet on 2026 demand.
Work-Zone Struck-By Kills Forklift Operator on Wisconsin’s I-41 Expansion
A semi struck a forklift inside an active I-41 work zone near De Pere late on August 17, killing the 26-year-old operator. The truck driver was not injured.
Industrial Rents Hit $9.20 as the New-Lease Premium Gets Cut in Half
Yardi Matrix put national in-place industrial rents at $9.20/sf, up 5.3% YoY, but the premium on new leases narrowed to $0.82 from $1.58 a year ago.
Framing Lumber Falls 4% to $536, Its First Weekly Drop Since May
Madison’s benchmark framing lumber index fell $22 to US$536 for the week ending August 14, breaking a run of gains that started in the spring.
A $32M Welding Center Opens in South Carolina With 122 Booths and 16 Robots
Greenville Technical College opened a $32M, 44,000 sq ft welding and automation center, lifting booth count from 90 to 122 and robotic stations from 4 to 16.
OSHA’s Respirator and Fixed-Ladder Rollbacks Reach the Hearing Room
OSHA opened hearings on rules that would drop respirator medical evaluations and remove the 2036 fixed-ladder retrofit deadline. Both hit construction directly.
The Largest Airport People Mover Ever Built Goes to MHI and L&T in Dubai
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Larsen & Toubro won the automated people mover for Al Maktoum International: 50 km, nine stations and 165 vehicles by 2031.
Turner and Wohlsen Take the $100M Brandywine Museum Expansion as a JV
A Turner-Wohlsen joint venture will deliver the $100M Brandywine Museum expansion in Chadds Ford: a 40,000 sq ft Kengo Kuma building and a 325-acre preserve.
Produced-Water Recycling Gets 100 More Miles of Pipeline in the Delaware Basin
Select Water Solutions will build 100 miles of pipeline, 3M barrels of storage and 60,000 bpd of recycling capacity in New Mexico under a 12-year deal.
Sage Buys Bangert to Cut Construction ERP Implementation Time
Sage acquired partner Bangert and its AI-guided onboarding platform, targeting the phase where construction ERP rollouts usually go wrong: implementation.
Willdan Buys Substation Engineer KCS as Data Center Load Outruns Utility Staff
Willdan acquired KCS Corporation, a 15-person Chicago substation engineer, betting that utility engineering capacity is the real constraint on data center power.
The World’s 250 Biggest Contractors Grew 9.7%. They Say Demand Isn’t the Problem.
ENR’s Top 250 International Contractors booked $550.6 billion, up 9.7%, but named skilled labor and year-long electrical lead times as the real constraint.
A Willful Trench Citation Went From $231,714 to $49,000. Nobody’s Been Charged.
OSHA cited an Ohio excavation contractor with a willful violation after a fatal cave-in. An informal settlement cut the penalty 79% to $49,000.
SBA Wants to Stop Measuring Contractors by Revenue and Start Counting Heads
An SBA proposed rule would move every construction NAICS code from receipts-based size standards to employee counts, making 114,541 more firms small.
Jacksonville’s Builders Bought a Call Center and Turned It Into a Trade School
Northeast Florida’s builders association spent $7.5 million converting a call center into a trade school, then started 550 apprentices in it four days later.
SOLV Energy’s Backlog Hit $8.9 Billion, and $2.5 Billion of It Is Batteries
The Swinerton renewables spinout grew Q2 revenue 77% to $951 million and raised guidance, but gross margin fell from 21.1% to 14.7% on a shift in mix.
Three Space-Industry Engineers Built a Sawmill in Mississippi
The Lumber Manufactory is running a $15 million sawmill in New Albany, Mississippi, founded by executives out of Anduril, Blue Origin and Nvidia.