Building Transparency opened the EC3 2.0 beta at Greenbuild. The embodied carbon tool holds 250,000 EPDs, but only its materials search is rebuilt so far.
GAO says GSA’s first federal office utilization report left out 20.2 million square feet of vacant space. A 60% minimum under the USE IT Act comes next.
Housing starts fell to a 1.221 million annual rate in September, down 7.4% from a year ago, as apartment starts fell 25.9% and only the South grew.
Steel joist and deck shipments rose 25% at Steel Dynamics in Q3 to 190,151 tons, its backlog is 50% higher and prices on 2027 work are going up.
EarthCam’s new construction AI connectors put jobsite camera data inside ChatGPT and Claude. Its accuracy and no-hallucination claims are self-tested.
JLL counted 317 million square feet of industrial construction under way in Q3, up 28.7%, as spec buildings over 1 million square feet rose from 18 to 33.
Model/Z closed a $32M New Markets Tax Credit deal that funds modular housing production in Watts before site work starts. About 800 units are on order.
Fort Hill LogiX uses AI to check contractor pay applications against the contract for capital project owners. A certified construction auditor signs off.
A roofer, a sprinkler contractor and a site-utility firm sold on Oct. 19 to Banner Capital, Century Fire Protection and Construction Partners. No prices given.
Aviator House, an all-electric office-to-apartment conversion by Clark Construction, opened in Dupont Circle as The Geneva leans on $465M in C-PACE financing.
GDOT chose Ferrovial-led Top End Mobility Group for the I-285 East Express Lanes P3: an $8.9B Phase 1 build and a $23.6B concession fee paid to Georgia.
CLRC says union construction wage-and-fringe packages negotiated in 2026 rose 4.9%, or $3.39 an hour, through September, up from 4.7% in 2025 and 2024.
A VendorAccess survey of 417 small vendors, 72% of them contractors, found 51.6% rank late payment as their top problem and 17% wait 31 to 90 days to get paid.
MIOSHA’s MIWISH safety grants match up to $5,000 for employers with 250 or fewer workers. Construction took the largest share; trenching gets priority.
Nucor lifted its hot-rolled coil spot price to $1,255 a ton and doubled its plate fuel surcharge to $40, as plate lead times passed their 2021 peak.
FERC’s proposed LNG blanket authorization lets terminals swap equipment without an order and add trains after 90 days’ notice. Comments close Dec. 21.
Canada’s $430M union trades training boost runs mostly through UTIP, and the facility-expansion stream for training halls closes to applicants on Nov. 12.
Blattner is building Invenergy’s $750M Philip wind project in South Dakota with 55 Nordex turbines, now pouring foundations. No power buyer is named yet.