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    Deep Dive // 2026 Outlook

    5 construction trends to watch in 2026

    Contractors will be keeping tabs on material costs, data center demand, interest rates and more this year.

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    The hidden bottleneck slowing down construction projects

    The hidden bottleneck slowing construction: getting workers to the jobsite.

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    What construction leaders need to know for 2026

    It’s anyone’s guess what the next 12 months will look like. Here, nonresidential building pros share insights on data centers, immigration and more to bring the year into focus.

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    House passes bill to speed up union-employer negotiations

    It can take over a year to agree on a contract after workers vote to form a union. New legislation, which ABC dubbed a “disgrace,” would impose deadlines to expedite the process.

    Updated June 11, 2026
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    McCarthy, Palantir partner on AI

    The news comes as enterprise-level agreements on artificial intelligence gain ground among large contractors.

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    Coalition requests judge halt Trump’s anti-DEI contractor order

    The group claimed Trump's administration "put federal contractors in an impossible bind."

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    Healthcare joined data centers in boost to May construction planning

    The increase builds on last month's growth to overall planning after a slow start to the year, according to Dodge Construction Network.

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    Chicago Bears saga continues as team signals move to Indiana

    Although the NFL franchise hasn’t locked in its selection of the site near Wolf Lake, the move has lawmakers racing to keep the Bears in Illinois.

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    East Wing was a wreck before being razed for ballroom: court document

    The White House Executive Residence Office recommended tearing down the building to address a facility that was structurally unsound, moldy and serviced by obsolete mechanical systems, an affidavit shows.

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    Tutor Perini unit grabs $48M data center manufacturing job

    Fisk Electric will work on a facility in Houston that fabricates data center infrastructure components and artificial intelligence-related hardware, according to the contractor.

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    Q&A

    New recruiting platform takes page from dating apps’ book

    “Where Trades Go” emphasizes profiles over resumes with check boxes for qualifications, a better fit for tradesworkers, said founder Brian Drucks.

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    Deep Dive

    Data center construction boom driving historic manufacturing opportunities

    From multinationals like ABB and Siemens to small, family-owned businesses, manufacturers are staking their claim in this lucrative new vertical through investments and acquisitions. The question now is how long it will last.

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    Judge halts Google data center project in Minnesota

    Minneapolis-based Ryan Cos., the general contractor on the project, estimates delays on Project Skyway in Pine Island could cost $5 million or more.

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    Industrial sector sole bright spot in Minneapolis region: survey

    Contractors across the Upper Midwest reported weaker activity, persistent uncertainty and rising costs, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

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    Can stadiums be energy efficient? USGBC map shows that many of them are

    The U.S. Green Building Council has conferred LEED status on 31 stadiums in North America, from the 9,500-seat Southwest University Park in El Paso, Texas, to the 88,000-seat Estadio Banorte in Mexico City.  

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    Lane-Brayman JV wins $1B Ohio River tunnel job

    The tunnel is one of three key parts of a clean water plan to reduce billions of gallons of sewer overflow in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

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    Punch List: 7 firms win NASA work, Turner finishes $557M UC Berkeley build

    Plus, details emerge in California’s high-speed rail private partnership, and Trimble starts a U.S. tour of its tech.

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    Bechtel picked for $4.69B Sabine Pass LNG expansion in Louisiana

    The contractor will add the multibillion-dollar job to its portfolio of other LNG work across the South.

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    Steel imports down 30% in 2026 as tariffs bolster US production

    Raw and finished steel reached 1.87 million net tons for the month of April, driven by increased imports of tin plate, metallic coatings and other goods, according to census data.

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    Walbridge breaks ground on $16B Stargate data center

    Around 700 union tradespeople will work under a project labor agreement on OpenAI and Oracle’s 250-acre campus in Saline, Michigan, according to the project announcement.

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    Autodesk to acquire MaintainX for $3.6B

    The contech giant timed its purchase with the creation and deployment of Autodesk Operations Solutions, its new maintenance and operations arm in the proptech space.

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    Davie Defense breaks ground on $1B shipbuilding site upgrades in Texas

    The modernization projects in Galveston and Port Arthur are part of a finalized $3.5 billion contract with the U.S. Coast Guard to supply five polar icebreaker vessels.

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    Data center construction spending rocketed 28% in the last year

    Overall nonresidential construction spending, however, ticked up 0.1% month over month in April, with momentum elsewhere “difficult to find,” said ABC Chief Economist Anirban Basu.

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    6 contech startups raise a combined $121M

    Artificial intelligence-powered autonomous machinery and technologies were among the recipients of recent multimillion-dollar funding rounds.

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    JV picked for $3.5B California high-speed rail job

    A Kiewit Stacey Witbeck Herzog team will construct the 119-mile section running partway between Bakersfield and Merced under a scaled back plan to get trains running by 2033.

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    April construction job openings hit highest mark of 2026

    As the number of unfilled positions jumped 10.6% MOM, the rate of layoffs hit a four-year low, indicating contractors are clinging to the workers they already have.