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    2025’s top construction conferences

    Construction Dive rounds up the industry conferences, expos and meetings on tap this year.

    Updated Jan. 29, 2025
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    Top construction-related podcasts

    The AEC industry boasts a vast offering of informative, on-demand programs. Here are some to add to your playlist.

    Updated March 27, 2025
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    Project Milestones

    Theodore Roosevelt’s $400M mass timber library rises in North Dakota

    Mercer Mass Timber, working with general contractor JE Dunn, is supplying around 1,800 cubic meters of engineered material for the 93,000-square-foot structure.

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    Q&A

    Seattle manager combines sheet metal work with technology

    Over her 13-year career in the industry, Liz Fong has become an expert in software management, process development and coding.

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    Q&A // ConTech Conversations

    With AI, ‘walk before you run’: Skanska USA exec

    The firm's Safety Sidekick chatbot helps employees access data on jobsite conditions to plan toolbox talks and huddles.

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    Economic Reports

    Private delays, abandonments drive project stress higher

    Over the past 12 months, non-public developments placed on hold jumped 40%, while abandonments increased 14.1%, according to ConstructConnect.

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    US DOT opens $1.5B funding round for transit buses and bus facilities

    This year’s funding round, part of the 2021 infrastructure law, drops equity- and sustainability-related requirements.

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    Project Milestones

    Whiting-Turner breaks ground on $880M Pennsylvania hospital expansion

    The centerpiece of the Geisinger project is an 11-story tower with a new, larger emergency room.

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    Alabama home builder completes first commercial project

    Stone Martin Commercial has finished construction of a $1.8 million warehouse in Opelika, Alabama, its first ground-up job since it entered the nonresidential space last year.

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    Q&A

    New president of Caddell’s commercial division aims to speed growth

    The Arkansas contractor, which has three new offices and a fourth on the way, has grown thanks to its focus on repeat clients, says Ricky Byrd.

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    Project Wins

    Kiewit, WSP tapped for $3.2B Canada nuclear waste project

    The team, along with three other firms, will build the deep geological repository in northwestern Ontario.

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    New water infrastructure firm launches in Arizona

    RS Contracting will specialize in the construction and rehabilitation of water and wastewater systems.

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    Opinion

    Cash isn’t king. Cash flow is.

    Smart contractors know how long it takes for money to transform from an outgoing expense to an incoming payment, writes data scientist Bruce Orr.

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    Economic Reports

    Construction costs dip, but tariffs hike some materials’ prices

    Inputs declined overall in April due to falling energy prices, but steel and copper rose significantly while nonresidential costs continued their upward march.

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    Contractors tout tech as AI arms race continues

    Big builders are exploring ways to use artificial intelligence to train employees and solve business problems.

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    The Boundary

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    Lendlease puts finishing touches on $316M LA apartments

    The Habitat Residences is one of the developer’s last two multifamily projects underway in the U.S.

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    Public builders flag initial tariff impacts

    While a few major contractors characterized the environment as business as usual, some noted that uncertainty is keeping clients on the sidelines. 

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    Safety data: Where to get started

    Speakers on a Construction Safety Week panel discussed examples of using data to alter jobsite practices and expressed how it may be easier than it seems to begin analyzing stats.

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    Q&A

    New York contractors boost pay, benefits to fight labor shortages

    A report that surveyed more than 200 contractors in New York also highlighted workforce development programs, flexible work options and mental health resources.

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    Economic Reports

    Backlog hits nearly 2-year high despite tariff worries

    Contractors’ expectations for their profit margins grew, but the gains in infrastructure building backlog were erased.

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    House committee advances bill with ‘big three’ business tax relief

    The bill advanced Wednesday by the House Ways and Means Committee would extend some business-friendly tax cuts from President Donald Trump’s first term.  

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    Jacobs remains ‘well positioned’ amid economic uncertainty

    CEO Bob Pragada said the impact of White House changes has been minimal and tariffs have provided the firm with consulting and advisory work.

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    Opinion // Business Matters

    How new construction execs can set themselves up to succeed

    Emerging leaders must be flexible in the face of change while also speaking up for what they need, writes consultant Matt Verderamo.

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    Foreign job seeker interest in US jobs has plummeted, Indeed says

    “This drop could have real economic consequences, especially for sectors like healthcare and construction that depend heavily on immigrant labor,” according to the report.

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    Stanley Black & Decker raises prices to mitigate tariff impacts

    The company is also making supply chain moves to become more compliant with the U.S.-Mexico-Canada agreement and reduce its manufacturing footprint in China.