Amid immigration crackdown, U.S. craft workers increasingly older, foreign-born. Research from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies found immigrants accounted for all net growth in the trades between 2013 and 2024. A continued decline in... https://t.co/LB7kvSd7KJ
Head safety compliance: Navigating the ANSI/ISEA Z89.1-2026 helmet revision. The ANSI/ISEA Z89.1-2026 update adds Type I+ and Type II+. What safety leaders need to know. https://t.co/R3qVoiEVwZ
13-year, $2B NYC bridge rehab completes 8th of 11 projects. Skanska’s $452 million contract to replace the bridge’s 592 suspender ropes included the 1.5-mile pedestrian pathway rebuild. https://t.co/yNDwk7T3Vv
Punch List: HNTB wins 2 Maryland bridges, AECOM names global transportation chief. Plus, Turner saw costs rise 5.5% annually in the third quarter, and CMAA picked a new board of directors chair. https://t.co/wfvkxjEevG
Turner-FH joint venture breaks ground on Colorado hospital. The build for AdventHealth in Louisville carries a price tage of $475 million, according to Becker’s Hospital Review. https://t.co/xu2vTYnZ2T
University of Tennessee breaks ground on $350M health studies build. Flintco will lead construction on the new health sciences building, which represents the largest ever capital investment by the Tennessee General Assembly in a higher education... https://t.co/pIXtWhmSf8
‘I’ve lived it’: How HITT’s CEO brings trade experience to her role. HITT Contracting’s Kim Roy discusses the company’s key markets, future M&A plans and changes in data center construction. https://t.co/EqmJzsCxIc
Northrop Grumman, Air Force start on $4.5B expansion. With cash from the One Big Beautiful Bill, the California build will add more than 1 million square feet to produce B-21 Raider machines. https://t.co/vxzvuyMH2R
Construction’s winners and losers drift farther apart. The economy has “become more extreme” as strong sectors boom even more, and weak sectors face more challenges, said Anirban Basu, ABC chief economist. https://t.co/iBWqOnoYgl
DPR breaks ground on $230M Kaiser Permanente project in Colorado. The contractor will use prefabricated and modular construction to build the offices, which will help the contractor cut down on jobsite complexity and scheduled time. https://t.co/kRpUHpLveC
The future of the construction trades depends on what employers do next. Recruiting more craft workers is key, but investing in career education and upskilling are vital to the labor shortage, writes an executive at Adolfson & Peterson. https://t.co/IPGMrXxymu
Every project runs on 2 models: The 1 in the software and the 1 in someone’s head. Better software hasn't made estimator judgment less important. It's made it harder to replace. https://t.co/sWkuUvx6od
Fisk Electric wins $24M modular contract for Houston data center. The Tutor Perini subsidiary’s win reflects a priority shift toward the booming data center sector that the heavy civil contractor has emphasized on earnings calls this year. https://t.co/mtshZcWUbp
Punch List: Bechtel teams with Ted Danson, Hensel Phelps breaks ground on new HQ. Plus, Sakrete brings back “Concrete Combat,” McCarthy appoints a new exec, HUD taps NIBS for multifamily modular and Rosendin touts its nonprofit’s grants. https://t.co/sYMRLHlVW2
Education, healthcare projects boosted construction planning in September. Strength outside the data center boom helped lift the Dodge Momentum Index 3.7% above its September 2025 level. https://t.co/sbh4bCs1a1
A $6 trillion question hangs over the AI construction boom. Four factors will need to go right to justify eye-popping investments into the sector, said Peter Hanbury, a partner at global management consulting firm Bain. https://t.co/PTSIgMXUJl
Skanska goes back to school with $418M in education builds. The Sweden-based contractor announced three wins with a collective value of $351 million as it began a fourth project worth $67 million. https://t.co/KK263HnntV
Megaprojects grab 1 in 4 nonresidential construction dollars. Construction appears strongest in areas connected to infrastructure, power, advanced manufacturing and data centers, economists say. Other segments, not so much. https://t.co/sxE1mc0ji5
Tutor Perini unit, Skanska land Coast Guard jobs worth a combined $586M. Perini Management Services has started work at Base Kodiak in Alaska, and Skanska has begun replacing the agency’s homeport pier in Newport, Rhode Island. https://t.co/3zjSW295XS
Contractors need to be prepared for accidental overdoses on jobsites. Stocking naloxone is like having any other safety first aid on a project, writes ABC’s vice president of human resources. https://t.co/UOXK3trptd