GlobalFoundries’ two new Malta fabs get up to $21B in Japanese funding and would add 1.8M wafers a year. Groundbreaking is due in 2026 with no builder named.
ABC’s construction backlog rose to 8.7 months in September on data center work, but the $30M-$50M contractor band fell to 6.4 months, lowest since 2011.
NRMCA’s new industry-wide concrete EPD covers 1,238 plants and 120 mixes, valid to 2031. A plain 4,000 psi mix is 330 kg CO2e, on 2023-2024 data.
Cardinal Infrastructure’s Hughes Brothers acquisition costs $357.5M for a Central Florida site contractor with $220M in revenue, plus up to $97.5M more.
Construction apprenticeships hit 53% of the St. Louis Fed district’s apprentices in 2025 and led growth in two recoveries. Only 46% finish nationally.
Full-scale manufactured home wind tests at FIU found some state-allowed anchoring falls below the federal minimum. The HUD wind rules date to 1988.
Blueprints AI says Version 2 turns a sketch into permit-ready drawings for six disciplines. It names no customers, codes or accuracy rates. Seals still apply.
The Air Force is redoing its environmental review because Sentinel silos can’t reuse Minuteman sites as planned. Land buys and new fiber corridors are in scope.
ENR’s Top 100 green contractors reported $101.9 billion in 2025 revenue, up 5.9%. Data center work rose 32.9% while green retail work fell 71.1%.
The federal contractor minimum wage under Executive Order 13658 rises to $14.05 on Jan. 6, 2027. It only reaches contracts awarded from 2015 to early 2022.
NAHB’s Remodeling Market Index rose one point to 62 in the third quarter. Leads climbed to 53 from 49 a year ago while backlog stayed flat at 56.
Weyerhaeuser will sell TimberHP’s wood fiber insulation batts and boards through U.S. lumber dealers. The Maine maker filed for Chapter 11 in March 2025.
Bain sizes the AI data center buildout at $5 trillion to $6.5 trillion by 2030 and tells contractors to ask four questions before booking the backlog.
Century Communities bought HistoryMaker Homes and says its Dallas-Fort Worth count tripled. No price was given. HistoryMaker closed 728 homes in 2025.
NCCER updated its 2018 workforce development report with the same seven recommendations. The original said 29% of craft workers would retire by 2026.
A helmet detection AI that checks the hard hat is on the head cut false alarms from 91 to 29 in a 305-image test. No jobsite trial was reported.
DOE withdrew its TE2 commercial furnace test procedure, which measured part-load and cabinet heat loss. Trane had priced the testing at $6M to $8M.
FMCSA’s hours-of-service pilots would let 256 drivers pause the 14-hour clock for up to three hours at a loading site. Comments close Dec. 7.