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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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    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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    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.

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    Trump further tweaks steel, aluminum, copper tariffs

    A greater range of industrial and agricultural equipment made with the metals will temporarily face a reduced 15% levy starting June 8, per the White House.

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    Seattle’s Sound Transit adopts new ST3 plan despite $34.5B funding gap

    The revised plan fully funds construction of several major transit projects in Washington state, though other projects now face deferral.

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    GDC awards $711M Hudson Tunnel Project contract

    A Skanska Creamer Sanzari NJSA joint venture expects to begin construction on the seventh of the Hudson Tunnel Project’s 10 construction packages later this year.

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    Turner-Consigli JV to build $2.3B NYC cancer center

    The Kenneth C. Griffin Pavilion will contain 12 operating suites and 208 single-occupancy inpatient beds.

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    JV wins $1.02B NYC subway extension

    Less than two months after they won a Hudson Tunnel megaproject, Skanska, Walsh and Traylor Bros have nabbed another sizable Big Apple job.

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    Jobsite AI integration will aid AI construction

    Implementing artificial intelligence into jobsite workflows will decrease delays and help builders deliver on the data center boom, writes the CEO of STACK Construction Technologies.

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    Cities push Congress to avert water infrastructure funding cliff

    With enhanced funding from the Biden-era infrastructure law set to expire and proposed federal cuts on the table, local government and water groups are urging lawmakers to reauthorize key drinking water and wastewater programs.

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    Punch List: DPR opens Pennsylvania office, MBI elects new president

    Plus, a construction calculator unveils an artificial intelligence application, STV strikes $4 billion in project management gold in California and two firms nab new government projects.

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    Q&A

    ‘Be a sponge’: How one project executive brings education and construction together

    Erin Kenney, a project executive for Suffolk in West Palm Beach, Florida, emphasized the power of mentorship and finding your niche.

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    Illinois starts critical $164M I-80 bridge project

    The spans over the Des Plaines River are the final phase of the $1.3 billion multiyear plan to overhaul Interstate 80 through Illinois.

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    Washington Union Station renovation gets $466M from US DOT

    The Department of Transportation will take a lead role in redeveloping the station and increasing its revenue potential.

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    Transit, Amtrak cuts advance in House appropriations bill

    The one-year bill cuts public transit funding by 22%, Amtrak by 69% and Capital Investment Grants by 78% for fiscal year 2027 but puts “a historic amount of funding” into bridges.

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    Turner has nabbed 10 $1B jobs so far in 2026

    In its first-quarter financial update, the New York City-based contractor, the industry’s largest by revenue, said it has already won more megaprojects this year than in all of 2025. 

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    Construction shows signs of life beyond data centers

    Despite hopeful signs, rising fuel prices will take a toll on material costs in the second half of the year, according to construction data provider Gordian.

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    Gilbane breaks ground on $450M Philadelphia cancer lab

    Bill Gates-backed TerraPower Isotopes tapped the contractor to head up preconstruction and construction of the core and shell building.

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    Data centers raise temperatures up to 4 degrees in nearby neighborhoods: study

    Use of a stronger vertical fan to push thermal plumes higher or not having parapets surround condenser arrays are two ways to mitigate the impact, a researcher says.

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    Q&A

    GISI Consulting Group preps for AI-driven hiring surge

    Brian Jordan, chief growth officer for the project management and engineering firm, emphasized the company’s “bottoms-up” artificial intelligence philosophy.

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    Digital permitting, AI tools top of mind for NIBS panelists

    During the National Institute of Building Sciences Building Innovation conference, speakers pointed to how digital tools can improve timelines and reviews.