Steel City Tunnel Partners Wins $1B ALCOSAN Ohio River Tunnel Contract
A Lane-Brayman JV won a $1B contract to build ALCOSAN’s Ohio River Tunnel, the first of three tunnels in a $4.5B plan to cut Pittsburgh’s sewer overflows.
New Section 232 Tariff Cut Trims Equipment Costs, Leaves Metals Pressure Intact
A June 8 Section 232 proclamation drops some equipment tariffs to 15%, but the 50% steel, aluminum and copper regime stays put, keeping material costs high.
USGBC Map Makes the Case That LEED Stadiums Aren’t an Oxymoron
USGBC’s new Sustainable Stadiums map counts 31 LEED-certified venues, showing energy and water retrofits work even at 80,000-seat scale.
Construction Job Openings Hit a 2026 High as Layoffs Sink to a Four-Year Low
Construction job openings jumped to 259,000 in April, up 10.6% in a month and 25% on the year, while layoffs fell to their lowest level since early 2022.
Minnesota Judge Halts Google’s Project Skyway Data Center Over Environmental Review
A Goodhue County judge paused work on Google’s 482-acre Project Skyway data center, and GC Ryan Cos. pegs the delay at $5M or more as review questions linger.
Bechtel Lands $4.69B Sabine Pass LNG Expansion as Train 7 Gets the Nod
Bechtel won a $4.69B contract for Train 7 at Cheniere’s Sabine Pass LNG plant in Louisiana, extending a two-decade run building Gulf Coast export capacity.
Autodesk Buys MaintainX for $3.6B, Betting Construction Data Outlives the Build
Autodesk’s $3.6B all-cash deal for MaintainX pushes the contech giant into building operations and maintenance, chasing the asset data that trains AI.
Architecture Billings Stay Soft, but Institutional Work Hints at a Thaw
The AIA/Deltek Architecture Billings Index slipped to 48.3 in April, still below 50, but institutional and multifamily firms posted a hint of growth.
Permitting Reform Hits the Senate as the SPEED Act Tests Its Bipartisan Math
The SPEED Act cleared the House and moved to the Senate, promising shorter NEPA timelines and narrower litigation windows for energy and infrastructure.
Walbridge Breaks Ground on ‘The Barn,’ a $16B Stargate Data Center in Michigan
Walbridge broke ground on The Barn, a $16B, 1.4-GW data center in Saline, Michigan for Oracle and OpenAI, the largest project in its 110-year history.
AI Preconstruction Software Draws Fresh Capital as LightTable Lands $22M
AI preconstruction software is pulling venture money as LightTable raises a $22M Series A to read drawings and flag errors before crews break ground.
Sublime Systems Closes In on Startup of Its Holyoke True-Zero Cement Plant
Sublime Systems’ Holyoke plant nears startup, set to make 30,000 tons a year of true-zero, fossil-free cement using an electrochemical process, not kilns.
Worker Misclassification Enforcement Tightens in 2026 as Labor Regulators Target Contractors
Federal and state regulators are sharpening worker-classification enforcement in 2026, raising the stakes for construction firms that lean on 1099 labor.
Brent Spence Bridge Corridor Breaks Ground on a $4.05B Ohio River Crossing
Ohio and Kentucky broke ground May 8 on the $4.05B Brent Spence Bridge Corridor, a Walsh Kokosing design-build that adds a companion span over the Ohio River.
Smackover Lithium Lines Up Its Builders for South West Arkansas, Clearing the Path to a Final Investment Decision
Smackover Lithium has signed S&B Engineers and Wood Group for its South West Arkansas project, completing the contractor lineup needed before a final investment decision.
U.S. Construction Spending Edged Up 0.4% in April as Data Centers Mask a Nonresidential Slump
U.S. construction spending rose 0.4% in April to a $2.17T annual rate, but data centers are doing the heavy lifting while the rest of nonresidential keeps shrinking.
Bedrock Robotics Pushes Toward Operator-Less Excavators as Autonomy Hits the Dirt
Bedrock Robotics says fully operator-less excavators will reach customer sites in 2026, backed by a $270M round, but supervised autonomy still does most of the digging.
Garney Breaks Ground on Tampa’s $1.2B ‘One Water,’ Hillsborough County’s Biggest-Ever Project
Garney broke ground on Hillsborough County’s $1.2B One Water wastewater and reuse project, the county’s largest-ever capital program, via progressive design-build.