Workforce Pell went live July 1, extending Pell Grants to short-term trade training. The catch: only 12 states have published in-demand lists, and many programs are too short to qualify.
Four groups sued EPA in D.C. federal court for blowing a 60-day Clean Air Act deadline by more than 10 months on a challenge to the Gary Works Title V permit.
Texas A&M researchers are pairing VR, brain-activity monitoring and generative AI to fight habituation — the reason experienced workers stop seeing the hazards around them.
CTA’s largest-ever capital project reached substantial completion July 1. The Walsh-Fluor JV rebuilt two miles of century-old elevated track, four stations and the Belmont bypass.
Judge Jeannette Vargas threw out DOT’s suspension of Hudson Tunnel funding and permanently barred the agency from blocking money over the project’s DBE program.
Two steel columns buckled on the 21st floor of the former Pfizer HQ, forcing nine building evacuations and a partial stop-work order on a 1,600-unit office-to-residential conversion.
The Dodge Momentum Index fell 1.9% in June as data center planning eased from record levels. Strip out data centers and the rest of nonresidential planning grew.
Austin Water started a $1.5B expansion of the Walnut Creek plant, its biggest wastewater investment yet, to add capacity and protect the Colorado River.
From Wolf Ranch near Austin to Cleora in Colorado, 3D-printed housing is scaling from one-off show homes to full subdivisions and load-bearing walls.
From O’Hare’s $8.5B Global Terminal to DFW Forward’s $12B, U.S. airports are running one of the biggest terminal build-out cycles on record in 2026.
The producer price index for construction inputs hit an all-time 354.9, and a July 24 tariff reset could scramble steel, copper and cement costs again.
The BlackRock Foundation’s $25M Future Builders RFP closes July 10, joining Google’s $50M and Meta’s $115M push to fund the skilled-trades pipeline.
OSHA renewed its heat enforcement program through 2031 and inspections have jumped 12x, so contractors face heat scrutiny this summer with no final rule in sight.
Chicago picked a Clark Construction–Clayco joint venture to design-build the $8.5B O’Hare Global Terminal, with construction set to start in late 2026.
May construction spending held at a $2.21T annual rate, up just 0.1% as public work carried a soft private market and payrolls added 17,000 jobs.
USDOT awarded $1.73B to 127 road, bridge, transit, port and rail projects across 52 states and territories, with $1.3B going to roads and bridges.
Martin Marietta will pay $13.5B for Lhoist North America, pushing the aggregates giant into higher-margin lime as billion-dollar construction M&A returns.
The Port of Long Beach approved a $1.05B FY2026-27 budget weighted toward on-dock rail, terminal upgrades and zero-emission equipment as cargo volume holds.