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U.S. President Trump announced a 50% tariff on multiple Canadian imports effective August 19, which could significantly impact prices of key construction materials such as cement and concrete. Legal experts warn that contractors need to immediately review existing contracts and consider incorporating price escalation clauses in bids to address soaring costs and uncertainty.
Data center projects are rapidly expanding across multiple states, creating new growth opportunities for extended-stay hotels. However, due to the limited workforce required for data center operations, the sustainability of this demand has sparked industry discussions. Executives from Choice Hotels, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, and My Place Hotels shared their respective market observations and strategic adjustments.
Gen Z construction professionals face the dual challenge of financial pressure and colleague skepticism when taking time off. Despite companies offering generous PTO, young employees still need to plan ahead, make extra preparations, and even defend their reasons for taking leave. This article analyzes the industry culture behind this phenomenon through the real experiences of multiple practitioners and proposes measures employers can take to improve the situation.
At the start of summer, the construction industry enters its peak season. Longer daylight and warmer weather create a working window for seasonally affected projects such as road upgrades. Several major contractors have announced recent project wins, including mega-projects with timelines spanning several years, with construction teams set to push forward during the warmer months.
The Maryland Aviation Administration announced that a major rehabilitation of the longest commercial runway (10-28) at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport will begin, undertaken by a joint venture of Allan Myers and P. Flanigan & Sons, with a contract value of $83.8 million. The work includes milling, paving, and LED lighting upgrades, during which the runway will be closed, and the other runway will only be temporarily closed at night.
U.S. President Trump signed multiple proclamations on July 20, citing Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930, determining that Canada's trade practices in several key sectors constitute discrimination against the United States, and deciding to impose a 50% tariff on various imported goods from Canada starting August 19. The tariff applies to all relevant goods, regardless of whether they originate within the USMCA framework, but energy, potash, goods subject to Section 232 tariffs, as well as fish and critical minerals, are not included in the scope of the additional tariffs.
The NFL's Kansas City Chiefs announced they have appointed Burns & McDonnell, headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, to provide owner's representative services for their upcoming $300 million headquarters and training facility in Olathe, Kansas. The facility, expected to open in 2031, will support the team's football and business operations.
The construction industry has long faced operational fragmentation, and introducing AI without a unified data foundation will only create more chaos. Palantir deployment expert Jesse Velay-Vitow and technical lead Jonas Lang write that the solution lies in establishing an enterprise-level ontology—a digital model that reflects how the company actually operates. This model must cover the entire company, adapt to blue-collar workers, augment rather than replace human labor, and reintegrate business functions. Through collaborations with partners such as McCarthy Building Cos., Thomas Cavanagh, and Lennar, they summarize the specific application value of ontology in scenarios such as time cards, equipment management, contracts, and procurement.
The New York City Department of Design and Construction (DDC) manages a $34 billion project portfolio. New Commissioner Paul Ochoa plans to expand the use of alternative delivery methods like design-build and leverage the extension of the joint bidding law to accelerate project delivery. This article is a summary of the exclusive interview.
Sales interviews with over 180 mid-sized construction contractors show that nearly half focus on attendance efficiency, but only 4% are aware of compliance risks. The U.S. Department of Labor recovered over $259 million in back wages in fiscal year 2025, with a single enforcement action in the construction industry involving over 3,000 investigations. Experts point out that the evidentiary power of time records in legal disputes is far more significant than most contractors imagine.