Skanska JV Wins $1.06B MBTA Contract to Replace the Charles River Draw 1 Bridges
Skanska USA Civil lands the MBTA’s $1.06B Draw 1 contract to replace the 1930s Charles River bascule bridges with new vertical-lift spans at North Station.
Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Crosses 70% Complete as Turbine Installs Slow the Final Stretch
Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind is past 70% complete with all 176 monopiles in the seabed, but the final turbine installs are slower than the project’s modeled pace.
CarbonCure Passes 500,000 Tonnes of Mineralized CO2 as Carbon Concrete Hits Spec Sheets
CarbonCure passes 500,000 tonnes of CO2 mineralized into ready-mix concrete, a milestone that has moved the technology from carbon-marketing copy to spec-sheet line item.
Metra Launches $337M Rebuild of Eleven Century-Old Bridges on the UP North Line
Metra’s 2026 program includes a $337M rebuild of 11 century-old rail bridges on the UP North Line, the most ambitious Chicago commuter rail infrastructure push in years.
Caterpillar’s Autonomous Excavators Move From CES Demo to Live Jobsites
Caterpillar’s Nvidia-powered autonomous excavators, trucks, and dozers move from CES preview to live deployment as fleets begin earthwork on real jobs.
Alec Wins the $1.7B Sphere Abu Dhabi Build, Exporting Vegas’s Most Expensive Venue to the Gulf
Alec Engineering wins the $1.7B Sphere Abu Dhabi construction contract, locking in a venue type that’s already proven in Vegas and now exporting to the Gulf.
Dodge Momentum Index Rose 4% in May as Institutional Planning Carries the Pipeline
The Dodge Momentum Index gained 4% in May, with institutional planning doing the heavy lifting and data centers pulling back from April’s spike.
Construction’s Immigrant Workforce Keeps Shrinking, and U.S.-Born Hiring Isn’t Filling the Gap
Construction sites lost crews after ICE raids and U.S.-born hiring in the trade dropped 3%, not rose. Schedule pain is already on cost reports.
August Robotics Pulls In $30M as the DeWalt Drilling Robot Cuts Data Center Build Time
August Robotics closed a $30M Series B as its DeWalt-built downward-drilling fleet robot starts shaving weeks off data center construction schedules.
Design Firm Revenue Jumped 7.4% as the AI Boom Reshapes the ENR Top 500
ENR’s 2026 Top 500 Design Firms booked $158.7B last year, up 7.4%, with data-center and telecom work doing nearly all the lifting and Jacobs back at No. 1.
Saipem Starts $1.75B Pipelaying for Romania’s Neptun Deep, Europe’s Big Bet on Black Sea Gas
Saipem has started installing 160 km of Black Sea pipeline under a $1.75B contract, the most visible piece of Romania’s $4.7B Neptun Deep gas project.
Buy America’s 55% Content Test Lands October 1, and Estimators Aren’t Ready
From October 1, 2026, Buy America adds a 55% domestic-content cost test for manufactured products on FHWA-funded jobs. The burden falls on estimators.
Construction’s Suicide Problem Draws New Funding From States and Building Trades
Construction’s suicide rate is among the highest of any industry. In 2026, New York’s building trades and Minnesota are funding peer-support programs.
Low-Carbon Cement Reaches Commercial Scale as Sublime Pushes Its Holyoke Plant Toward Startup
Sublime Systems’ first commercial low-carbon cement plant in Holyoke aims to make kiln-free cement at scale, even after losing an $87M DOE award.
Battery-Electric Excavators Move From Demo to Daily Driver at CONEXPO 2026
Every major OEM now ships a battery-electric excavator. CONEXPO 2026 showed electric construction equipment moving from demo to daily driver, on cost.
NEOM Halts The Line Until After 2030 as Saudi Arabia Redirects Megaproject Cash
NEOM won’t restart The Line until after 2030 as Saudi Arabia’s PIF cuts construction spending ~60% and shifts to ports, power, and data centers.
Construction Labor Shortage Meets a Visa Push as H-2B Doubles and an H-2C Bill Advances
With construction’s labor shortage biting, FY2026 nearly doubles H-2B visas and a proposed H-2C visa would add 65,000 more, even as enforcement disrupts a third of firms.
Green Steel Moves From Slide Deck to Steel Mill as Stegra Closes In on First Output
Stegra’s hydrogen-based green steel plant in Boden, Sweden secured EUR1.4B more financing and aims for first output in 2026, with buyers like Microsoft lining up supply.