Engineering News Record

“Sustainability is at the forefront of Austin’s engineering and construction practices,” Roohms says. “The industry has also been adopting digital plan delivery, which leverages shared technology among the entire project team to enhance visualization and eliminate silos.” 

“The current buzz in the construction community is the surge of large industrial projects announced this year,” says McCaskill.

In early March, contractor KDC topped off the 850,000-sq-ft state-of-the-art campus in Iving, Texas, for financial giant Wells Fargo—the firm’s first net-positive energy office complex in the U.S.

Although ENR’s indexes measure the costs of non-residential buildings, the housing market has had a major impact on index movement.

While there have been some worries about clouds on the horizon, it’s not evident from a glance at the heavy equipment market.

Executive compensation has been rising steadily since the pandemic, reaching a high-water mark in 2023. However, a cooldown in several market sectors could result in comp increases receding in the coming years.

For the first time since Q1 of 2022, construction industry executives report a stable and slightly growing market on ENR’s Construction Industry Confidence Index (CICI) survey.

The construction industry has seen some modest growth in the first quarter of 2024, but issues from the past several years are slow to recede.

ENR’s 20-city average cost indexes, wages and materials prices. Historical data and details for ENR’s 20 cities can be found at ENR.com/economics

Amtrak is using project delivery partnering for the 2-mile replacement for the Baltimore & Potomac Tunnel.

Turner Construction scrambles to expand the United Airlines flight training center in Denver on a turbocharged timeline.

The Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine will serve as a hub of the University of Utah’s health sciences campus.

City manages record growth and steers development while keeping an eye on quality of life.

Careful planning with built-in flexibility helps Denver Water manage its more than $1 billion in projects currently under contract.

The region’s 40 largest projects exceed $23 billion even as contractors navigate financing, supply chain and work force challenges.

A 99-year-old manufacturing building has been reimagined as a vibrant mixed-use development with a new home for LaGree Baptist Church.

Dodge data on projected 2024 construction starts in Portland, Maine.

L+M Development Partners, ENR New York's Owner of the Year, is on the forefront of innovative affordable housing development in the city and across the country.

New York and New England's largest projects to start in 2023 have a combined construction value of nearly $35 billion.

Reports from key industry events across the Mountain States region.