The $14.4 Billion I-5 Columbia Crossing Just Started Shopping for a Builder
Oregon and Washington issued an RFQ for the progressive design-builder on the I-5 Columbia River bridge replacement. Qualifications are due September 30.
Madison Air Is Paying $5.4 Billion for the Fans Inside Your Rooftop Units
Chicago’s Madison Air will buy German fan and motor maker ebm-papst at a $5.4 billion enterprise price, consolidating the airflow guts of commercial HVAC.
Three Contractors Are Running Excavators With Nobody in the Cab
Bedrock Robotics says excavators running its retrofit Operator system are doing production earthwork unmanned for Sundt, Zachry and Champion Site Prep.
Architects Have Been Losing Billings for Nearly Three and a Half Years
July’s Architecture Billings Index fell to 46.6, extending a contraction AIA says now runs nearly three and a half years. ABI leads spending by a year.
Yardi Raised Its 2026 Apartment Forecast 2.5%. The 2027 Trough Didn’t Move.
Yardi Matrix lifted 2026 multifamily completions 2.5% and 2028 by 1.3% in its Q3 bulletin, while units under construction and pre-leasing keep falling.
405 Crane Deaths in a Decade. Only 29% Were the Operator.
A National Safety Council and NCCCO Foundation study found 405 U.S. crane fatalities from 2015 to 2024, with operators accounting for 29 percent of them.
Meta’s First Trades Graduates Had a Job Offer Before They Started Training
Meta published results from the first America’s Workforce Academy cohort, more than 55 students who trained free and had conditional contractor offers before day one.
New York Just Put a Price on Not Retrofitting: $35.52 a Credit
NYSERDA opened the first sale of renewable energy credits for Local Law 97 compliance at $35.52 each, with a 1,000-credit minimum and no cap per building owner.
APAC Would Have Owned 5 of the 7 Asphalt Plants TDOT Buys From. It’s Selling Two.
DOJ and Tennessee sued to block APAC-Tennessee’s purchase of Standard Construction Group and settled for divestiture of two Memphis-area hot-mix asphalt plants.
McDermott Booked $41 Million on $2.3 Billion. 97% of Shareholders Took the Rights Offer.
McDermott International reported Q2 revenue of $2.3 billion and $15.8 billion of backlog, with about 97% of rights exercised ahead of a credit facility refinancing.
Nucor Is Putting $59 Million Into Steel Grating at the Plant Where Vulcraft Started Indiana
Nucor will add a 127,000 sq ft grating facility at Vulcraft Indiana in St. Joe, its fourth grating location and fourth major Indiana investment in recent years.
One Ohio Data Center Says It Will Need 35,000 Construction Workers Over Six Years
OpenAI signed a 20-year lease for 8 GW at the PORTS-Pike campus in Ohio. SB Energy builds it, Nvidia guarantees up to $105 billion, and no contractor is named yet.
JFK’s New Terminal One Is Putting 11 Acres of Tubing Under Its Floors
JB&B specified radiant heating and cooling across 500,000 sq ft at JFK New Terminal One, deepening slab depressions five to nine inches to fit the tubing.
The Rays Picked a Builder Before the Money Was Voted. Work Has to Start Next Month.
A selection committee ranked an AECOM Hunt, Turner and HORUS JV first for CMAR on the Rays $2.3 billion Tampa ballpark, ahead of the votes that would pay for it.
Only 36% of Contractors Fly Drones, and 97% of Those Drones Are DJI
ABC’s first drone survey finds regulatory compliance, not cost, is the barrier to adoption — and near-total dependence on a single Chinese manufacturer.
Utility Relocations Could Push Milwaukee’s I-94 Rebuild to 2035
WisDOT told the Transportation Projects Commission that utility relocation may delay the $1.65B I-94 East-West rebuild two years, with cost already up 3.6% to $1.71 billion.
Two Consecutive MSHA Fatalities Were Slips and Falls. That’s Not the Hazard Anyone Drills On.
A worker died at a Mississippi sand mine on August 13 in the second straight MSHA fatality classified as slip or fall of person — a hazard aggregate safety programs underweight.
The Building Trades Just Got a Look at BlackRock’s Project Pipeline Before It’s Let
NABTU, BlackRock and the AI Infrastructure Partnership signed an MOU giving the trades advance visibility into a data center pipeline aiming to mobilize $30 billion.