Mohawk’s Dal-Tile halted its Florence, Ala., tile plant Oct. 16, idling 146 workers and citing housing. LP idled a Texas OSB mill the same month.
Fortune Brands agreed to sell Fiberon, the recycled-content composite decking maker, to plastics producer Inteplast. Price and Fiberon sales weren’t disclosed.
San Francisco’s Origin raised $20M for OG-1, a drywall-finishing robot already on New York jobs. Its 3x-human speed claim hasn’t been independently tested.
Northampton, Mass., started an $11.6M geothermal heat pump system at its high school Oct. 15. Federal tax credits are what close the gap with a $7M HVAC swap.
Salt Lake City’s $5.1B airport redevelopment opens its last seven Concourse B gates Oct. 27, 12 years after a groundbreaking priced near $1.8B.
EPA proposed adding Pinal County’s construction dust rules to Arizona’s federal air plan Oct. 19. Comments close Nov. 18; the county adopted them in 2023.
Builder confidence fell 3 points to 29 in October, NAHB says, its lowest since June 2012. 43% of builders cut prices and buyer traffic sank to 18.
A crane operator died after his machine shifted and fell on the Brent Spence Bridge Corridor job in Cincinnati Oct. 17. Police and OSHA are investigating.
JLL says office conversions removed 9.6M sf in Q3 while completions hit 3.5M and only 23M sf of office construction is under way. The work is in renovation.
Austin’s Construction Training Program would require 20% active trainees on city jobs over $10M, up from 15%, and stop counting graduates starting in 2027.
Euclid Chemical’s NexSlab software designs fiber-reinforced slabs-on-ground with its TUF-STRAND SF fiber, using an in-house TR34 method it hasn’t published.
DEWALT’s DALE drilling robot made TIME’s Best Inventions list after 385,000 data center holes. Its accuracy claim slipped from 99.97% to over 99%.
Charlotte broke ground on Firehouse 44, a $23.3M mass timber firehouse by Samet and ADW Architects that targets zero carbon. That works out to about $1,660/sf.
Oregon OSHA fined a Beaverton contractor $317,587 for repeat fall protection violations. Workers wore harnesses but weren’t tied off 19 feet up.
The Supreme Court is weighing whether NEPA review applies before an agency seeks a RCRA permit. AGC backs the Air Force in a case that could reset timing.
Canada housing starts rose 3% to a 248,896-unit pace in September, beating forecasts. Toronto starts fell 61% and Montreal 51% from a year earlier.
PCL’s revised $552M award for South Bay wastewater plant primary treatment starts heavy civil work in San Diego. Secondary treatment still has no funding.
Flintco-Mortenson began elevated decks at OKC’s Continental Coliseum arena Oct. 12. The budget was $900M at award; the city now estimates $1.016 billion.