U.S.-flag Great Lakes limestone shipments hit 3.13 million tons in July, the strongest since 2023 — but Canadian ports stopped reporting in April, breaking the series.
A new Build America Bureau RFI would put utilities in bored channels under highway and rail rights-of-way under 30-to-50-year P3 concessions. Comments close September 12.
Home Depot’s Q2 sales rose 5.7% to $47.9 billion on a 2.8% bigger average ticket while customer transactions fell 1.0% — and tariff refunds are holding the margin.
Gravis Robotics raised a $200 million Series A from SoftBank for a brand-agnostic retrofit kit that turns Cat, Deere and Volvo excavators autonomous.
Fervo hit mechanical completion on two of three power blocks at Cape Station and guided to $850–900 million more construction spend in the back half of 2026.
July housing starts dropped 12.4% to a 1.239 million rate while permits rose 5% — builders are banking paper and refusing to break ground.
The NAHB/Wells Fargo index rose a point to 35 in August, its 16th straight month below 40, with 35% of builders still cutting prices to move houses.
NPPD broke ground on Princeton Road Station, a 694 MW dual-fuel plant near Hallam with Burns & McDonnell holding the full engineer-procure-construct contract.
CPSC recalled 1.77 million attic stairway ladders after spreader-assembly bolts broke in service, a defect that sat in the supply chain for roughly 14 years.
McCarthy is turning a Tempe hotel it bought for $27.5 million into a 12-acre training campus, betting retention rather than hiring is the binding constraint.
QXO grew Q2 sales 70% to $3.25 billion almost entirely by acquisition, and watched adjusted EBITDA margin slide from 10.7% to 8.4% doing it.
The Tenth Circuit affirmed judgment for a design subconsultant on Denver’s C-470 job, holding a negotiated cap and integration clause killed $260M of exposure.
A $31 million preconstruction handshake from 2023 just converted into a $1.9 billion light rail contract, with Skanska booking $957 million in Q3 backlog.
Mithun and Waugh Thistleton revealed Bevel, a 12-story Bellevue office tower that would be the first U.S. commercial building to take Type IV-B to its limit.
SketchUp Pro Civil Contractor lets earthwork contractors model 3D terrain without Civil 3D and push it straight into Siteworks and Earthworks grade control.
Cumming folded TLM Group into an Advanced Technologies division it built five months ago, pushing Tri-State headcount past 260 in an owner’s-rep roll-up.
NAHB’s Q2 AD&C survey read -12.0 while the Fed’s lender survey read +3.7 — the first divergence since 2013. Points, not rates, explain the gap.
TerraPower named Hyundai E&C as EPC for up to eight Natrium reactors under completion, price and performance guarantees — the missing piece for project finance.