Sebastian Obando
Senior Reporter | @Sgo96Sebastian Obando is a senior reporter covering the construction industry for Construction Dive, based in Washington, D.C. Prior to Construction Dive, Sebastian covered commercial real estate for the National Real Estate Investor, based in New York City, as well as contributed to Forbes, covering personal investment topics. He has also appeared in Adweek, New York Post and The Washington Post, among others. Sebastian is a graduate of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland.
921 articles by Sebastian Obando
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Data center construction spending raced further ahead in August
Oct. 2, 2026 -
Fluor-JGC JV wins $15B contract on LNG Canada’s phase 2 expansion
Sept. 30, 2026 -
$16B Hudson Tunnel project begins boring
Sept. 29, 2026 -
Fluor, Balfour Beatty complete $677M Texas highway project
Sept. 28, 2026 -
AECOM exec encourages other women in construction to embrace challenges
Sept. 28, 2026 -
Infrastructure contractors dodged a funding cliff, but another looms
Sept. 25, 2026 -
Eli Lilly breaks ground on $6.5B Houston manufacturing plant
Sept. 24, 2026 -
Virginia’s new data center rules raise questions for construction
Sept. 24, 2026 -
Construction groundbreakings tumbled 25% in August, megaproject starts slowed
Sept. 21, 2026 -
FAA greenlights $1.1B for airport upgrades
Sept. 21, 2026 -
MTA issues RFQ for final contract on $6.97B Second Avenue subway extension
Sept. 17, 2026 -
Fed raises rates but construction has a bigger problem
Sept. 16, 2026 -
Construction backlog rebounded in August as more firms won data centers
Sept. 16, 2026 -
Data centers are eating up steel. Developers are now looking at timber.
Sept. 16, 2026 -
The biggest project decisions occur before construction, says AECOM president
Sept. 14, 2026 -
Labor squeeze prompts revised construction workforce strategies
Sept. 14, 2026 -
Cost spikes hit bevy of construction materials
Sept. 11, 2026 -
Analyzing the US data center construction boom
Sept. 9, 2026 -
Sound Transit delays West Seattle Link project by 3 years
Sept. 9, 2026 -
Data center planning cooled in August as other sectors gained ground
Sept. 9, 2026 -
DOT allocates $481M for airport infrastructure projects
Sept. 4, 2026 -
Amtrak breaks ground on $1B NYC maintenance facility
Sept. 4, 2026 -
Data centers drove all nonresidential construction spending growth in July
Sept. 2, 2026 -
‘It’s about taking care of people’: How top contractors staff data center jobs
Sept. 2, 2026 -
‘Not just a hope and a wish’: How contractors can tap underrepresented communities
Sept. 1, 2026
