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June 8, 2026

National Safety Month 2026: What Construction's Fatality Data, the Struck-By Stand-Down, and Prevention Through Design Mean for the Field

June 8, 2026

Construction's Triple Labor Crisis: Retirements, Immigration Enforcement, and the Deepening Electrician Shortage

June 8, 2026

Diesel Up 73.8%, Copper Up 21%, Steel Up 15%: The Construction Input Cost Crisis About to Hit Owners

June 8, 2026

Construction's K-Shaped Economy: How the Mid-2026 Market Is Splitting Into Two Very Different Industries

June 8, 2026

The $136 Billion Countdown: What the IIJA Expiration and the BUILD America 250 Act Mean for U.S. Construction

June 8, 2026

Erie County's 2026 Road and Bridge Construction Season: $50 Million, 100+ Miles, and the Biggest Reconstruction Projects in a Decade

June 8, 2026

Monroe County's First New Comprehensive Plan in 40 Years Is Now Open for Comment — Here's What 'Plan Forward' Means for Housing and Infrastructure

June 8, 2026

New York's Data Center Moratorium Puts Billions in WNY Construction on Hold — and the Building Trades Are Not Happy

June 8, 2026

Bear Ridge Solar's $221 Million, 100 MW Farm in Niagara County Is Finally Moving Toward Construction — After Eight Years and $27 Million in Tax Break Negotiations

June 8, 2026

Amazon's $550 Million Town of Niagara Fulfillment Center Is Almost Done — 1,000 Jobs, 3.1 Million Square Feet, and a Regional Supply Chain Shift

June 7, 2026

OSHA's 2026 Heat NEP Is Active and Enforcement Is Real: What Construction Employers Face This Summer

June 7, 2026

U.S. Housing Construction in June 2026: Single-Family Pulls Back, Multifamily Surges, and Affordability Remains the Defining Constraint

June 7, 2026

Architecture Billings Have Now Contracted for 42 of the Last 43 Months — What That Means for the Construction Pipeline

June 7, 2026

U.S. Pharma and Semiconductor Manufacturing Construction: The $100 Billion+ Industrial Buildout Reshaping the Map

June 7, 2026

The Data Center Power Crisis: How AI Infrastructure Is Reshaping U.S. Construction and the Electrical Grid

June 7, 2026

Seneca Park Zoo's $100 Million Expansion Is Finally Going to Bid — and Monroe County Is Confident It Can Be Built This Time

June 7, 2026

Harper's Corner Completes: A $12.8 Million Downtown Rochester Transformation That Was 40 Years in the Making

June 7, 2026

I-90 Erie County Thruway Gets a $64 Million Overhaul: What the 6.5-Mile Reconstruction Means for Buffalo's Most-Used Interchange

June 7, 2026

New Highmark Stadium Reaches Substantial Completion: Ribbon Cutting Set for June 23 as Bills' $2.2 Billion Home Prepares to Open

June 7, 2026

Ralph Wilson Park Phase 2 Breaks Ground: A $78.4 Million Playground, Freighter, and Waterfront Transformation for Buffalo

June 6, 2026

ConstructConnect's Blunt Warning to the Industry: Pick Your Subcategory and Your Geography — or Fall Behind

June 6, 2026

Two Major Industrial Manufacturing Plants Break Ground in One Week — What the Projects Reveal About U.S. Industrial Construction

June 6, 2026

$7 Billion, 63,000 Construction Jobs, 5,000 Homes: Chicago's 1901 Project Breaks Ground at the United Center

June 6, 2026

Construction Employment Climbs to 8.34 Million in May — But Contractors Are Not Hiring. Here Is Why.

June 6, 2026

Construction Spending Hits $2.17 Trillion in April — But the Growth Is Concentrated in Two Categories

June 6, 2026

A Condemned Holiday Inn in Gates Is Coming Down — And an $18.7 Million Building Materials Warehouse Is Going Up

June 6, 2026

NYPA Releases $82 Million in WNY Manufacturing Construction: Cold Storage, Plastics, and a 92,000-Square-Foot Egg Facility

June 6, 2026

Diamond Lofts Moves Forward in Buffalo's Midtown: 167 Apartments Planned for Two Main Street Buildings

June 6, 2026

Twenty-Eight Years and a Court Ruling: What Comes Next for Buffalo's AM&A's Building at 377 Main

June 6, 2026

Niagara Falls Clears the Legal Logjam: A $200 Million Arena and Event Campus Is Now Moving Forward

May 28, 2026

Low-Carbon Concrete Is Now a Federal Procurement Requirement: What $4.15 Billion in Government Buying Power Means for Construction

May 28, 2026

Offsite and Modular Construction Gets a White House Endorsement: What the 2026 Push Means for the Industry

May 28, 2026

One Million Apprentices: The $265 Million Federal Push to Rebuild America's Construction Workforce Pipeline

May 28, 2026

Permitting Reform Is Reshaping How Infrastructure Gets Built: What the 2026 Federal NEPA Overhaul Means for Construction

May 28, 2026

The West Is Building Water Again: $889 Million in Federal Investment and the Sites Reservoir Groundbreaking Signal a New Era

May 28, 2026

Horizon Acres: The $142 Million Industrial Park Filling In Along the I-90 Corridor East of Buffalo

May 28, 2026

East Buffalo's $20 Million Kensington-Bailey Health Center Is Nearing Its Summer 2026 Opening — Built on Vacant Land Where Healthcare Access Was 30 Minutes Away on Foot

May 28, 2026

Blocher Apartments Opens in Williamsville — 93 Units of Affordable Housing in One of Erie County's Priciest Suburbs

May 28, 2026

Hotel Niagara's $58.8 Million Restoration Moves Into Interior Work — A 100-Year-Old Landmark Targets 2027 Opening

May 28, 2026

Heritage Wind Is Under Construction in Orleans County — Western New York's Largest Active Wind Farm Project

May 27, 2026

Construction Insurance in 2026 Is a Two-Speed Market — and Contractors Need to Know Which Lane They're In

May 27, 2026

Design-Build Now Commands Nearly Half of U.S. Construction Spending — And a New Federal Law Just Expanded Its Reach

May 27, 2026

FRA Opens $2 Billion in Rail Infrastructure Grants — Here's What's at Stake for Freight and Passenger Corridors

May 27, 2026

Chickamauga Lock's $954 Million Rebuild Hits a Crisis — and What It Reveals About America's Waterway Infrastructure Backlog

May 27, 2026

Senior Housing Construction Is at a 13-Year Low — Just as 4 Million More Americans Turn 80

May 27, 2026

Niagara County's 2026 Federal Aid Bridge Reconstruction Program: Nine-Plus Structures Across Eleven Towns

May 27, 2026

Lockport's $66 Million Bewley Building Adaptive Reuse Navigates Political Headwinds — PathStone Targets Late 2026 HFA Closing

May 27, 2026

Cattaraugus County's $33 Million 2026 Capital Infrastructure Plan: Roads, Bridges, and Culverts Across the Southern Tier

May 27, 2026

Monroe County's 2026 Capital Highway and Bridge Program: Five Bridge Replacements and Road Work Across 15+ Communities

May 27, 2026

Dunkirk's $38 Million Housing Push: "Homesteads at Dunkirk Landing" Breaks Ground on 78 Apartments

May 26, 2026

The AGC's 2026 Safety Excellence Awards Recognize a New Era of Data-Driven Job Site Risk Management

May 26, 2026

Record Municipal Bond Issuance Is Financing a New Era of U.S. Infrastructure Construction

May 26, 2026

America's Defense Industrial Base Is Under Construction: Inside the $3+ Billion Solid Rocket Motor Building Wave

May 26, 2026

Office-to-Apartment Conversions Hit 90,300 Units — The Construction Pipeline Behind the Boom

May 26, 2026

America's Manufacturing Construction Boom Has Peaked — Here's What the Numbers Say

May 26, 2026

Maplevale Farms Is Building a $41 Million Refrigerated Distribution Center in Chautauqua County — After Power Issues Nearly Killed the Deal

May 26, 2026

Lockport's Livery Row Is Coming: A $9.6 Million Mixed-Use Project Transforms the City's North Entrance

May 26, 2026

New York's $20.4 Million Freight Rail Investment in the Finger Lakes: Six Projects, Two Bridge Replacements, and a Fight to Save the Arcade and Attica

May 26, 2026

Chautauqua Lake's Decades-Long Sewer Quest Reaches Its Final Phase — Backed by $17.8 Million in State Funding

May 26, 2026

Buffalo's Fruit Belt Is Getting a $134 Million Expansion — And It's Just Phase One of a $1 Billion Bet on the East Side

May 25, 2026

Builder Confidence Is 37 — And Has Been Below 50 for 14 Straight Months. What That Means for U.S. Housing Construction.

May 25, 2026

100 Local Moratoriums and $64 Billion Blocked: The Data Center Opposition That's Now a Construction Industry Problem

May 25, 2026

Construction Added 9,000 Jobs in April 2026 — But the Numbers Tell Two Very Different Stories

May 25, 2026

OSHA's Heat Illness Program Expired. The Federal Rule Is Stalled. Here's What Construction Employers Face This Summer.

May 25, 2026

House Passes $580 Billion BUILD America 250 Act: What the Surface Transportation Reauthorization Means for Construction

May 25, 2026

North Tonawanda's $10 Million DRI Is Delivering: The Canal City's Construction Comeback Is Almost Complete

May 25, 2026

Buffalo's Union Trades Are Training the Next Generation as WNY Construction Demand Stays High

May 25, 2026

Monroe County Raises and Realigns Lake Road to Shield Webster's Lake Ontario Shoreline From Future Flooding

May 25, 2026

Tonawanda Island Gets Its First Residential Building and a $5.6 Million Infrastructure Overhaul

May 25, 2026

HP Hood's $26 Million Expansion Deepens Batavia's Hold as the Northeast's Dairy Manufacturing Capital

May 24, 2026

The NEVI EV Charging Construction Program: $4.4 Billion, a Federal Freeze, and What's Actually Getting Built in 2026

May 24, 2026

April 2026 Housing Starts: Single-Family Pulls Back While Multifamily Surges — What the Data Means for Builders

May 24, 2026

Construction Robotics Hits a Turning Point: The 2026 Report That Shows Automation Moving From Pilot to Production

May 24, 2026

Congress Passes the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act: What It Means for Home Builders and Construction Nationwide

May 24, 2026

America's New Steel Revolution: U.S. Steel's $1.9 Billion DRI Plant and the Domestic Manufacturing Wave Reshaping the Industry

May 24, 2026

New York Invests $18.7 Million Across 21 Projects in Western New York Through DRI and NY Forward Programs

May 24, 2026

Rochester's Downtown Construction Cycle Hits $625 Million — and a New Wave of Office Conversions Is Just Getting Started

May 24, 2026

Harrison Lofts Is Six Months From Opening: Inside Lockport's $30 Million Adaptive Reuse of the Harrison Radiator Complex

May 24, 2026

Abnex Breaks Ground on a $15 Million South Buffalo Expansion — Adding 45,000 Square Feet of Cable Management Manufacturing

May 24, 2026

Niagara Falls' $125 Million Gateway Project: 325 Homes, Four Buildings, and a Market-Rate Bet on Downtown

May 23, 2026

ConstructConnect's Spring 2026 Forecast: $2.27 Trillion, 5.1% Growth, and a Data Center Supercycle Rewriting the Outlook

May 23, 2026

Rochester Public Market's Long-Planned Indoor Expansion Lands $2 Million Federal Funding Boost

May 23, 2026

A Niagara Falls Defense Contractor Is Building a $29 Million Expansion — Fueled by a Pentagon Rocket Motor Contract

May 23, 2026

WRDA 2026 Is Taking Shape: Inside the Army Corps Authorization Bill That Could Unlock Ports, Waterways, and Flood Projects Nationwide

May 23, 2026

Rochester Is Rebuilding Cobbs Hill Village From the Ground Up — 104 New Senior Homes by Summer 2026

May 23, 2026

America's First Domestic Semiconductor Pump Factory Opens in Genesee County This Fall

May 23, 2026

Rochester Housing Authority Prepares to Demolish and Rebuild Glenwood Gardens — 180 Senior Units, $145 Million

May 23, 2026

Mass Timber's Mainstream Moment: 2,500 Projects and 20% Annual Growth Signal a Construction Material Has Arrived

May 23, 2026

What the One Big Beautiful Bill Means for the Construction Industry: Tax Cuts, Permitting Wins, and Green Credit Phase-Outs

May 23, 2026

The Navy's $47 Billion Shipbuilding Push Is Reshaping U.S. Shipyard Construction — Here Is What Is Being Built and Where

May 22, 2026

EPA Moves to Reshape PFAS Drinking Water Compliance — And Nearly $5 Billion in Treatment Construction Hangs in the Balance

May 22, 2026

Construction's Mental Health Crisis Comes Out of the Shadows: A New Film, a Hard Hat Campaign, and a Reckoning With Suicide and Addiction

May 22, 2026

Two Major U.S. Highway Corridors Break Ground in 2026: Florida's I-4 and Asheville's Long-Awaited I-26 Connector

May 22, 2026

Thruway Launches $29.9 Million I-90 Resurfacing Through the Finger Lakes — Part of a Record $600 Million+ 2026 Construction Season

May 22, 2026

Buffalo's 60-Day Demolition Moratorium Signals a Shift in How the City Manages Its Building Stock

May 22, 2026

Buffalo's $29.3 Million Breckenridge Sewer Project Launches Construction on the West Side

May 21, 2026

The Gordie Howe Bridge Is Finished. It Just Won't Open. What a $6.4 Billion Canada-Funded Crossing Tells Us About Infrastructure Politics in 2026.

May 21, 2026

Turner Opens Its AI Safety Tool to the Entire Construction Industry — Free of Charge

May 21, 2026

EPA Releases $2.9 Billion to Replace Lead Service Lines Nationwide — the Largest Single-Year Federal Allocation for Lead Pipe Construction

May 21, 2026

Construction Input Prices Surge 6.6% Year Over Year in April 2026 as Energy and Metals Costs Widen the Bid-Price Gap

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May 5, 2026

Rochester Gateway Apartments Starts $72.3M Office-to-Housing Conversion

December 23, 2025

Clean Room Construction & Maintenance Guide

December 23, 2025

Buffalo Awards $10M to 35 Commercial Development Projects

December 18, 2025

Trump Administration Announces $1.5B in Infrastructure Funding Through BUILD Grant Program

December 18, 2025

Rochester Area Fire Department Launches $21.8M New Firehouse Construction Project

December 18, 2025

KeyBank Plans 3,500 Sq Ft New Freestanding Branch in Irondequoit

December 18, 2025

Gov. Hochul Awards $10M to 35 Buffalo Commercial and Mixed-Use Development Projects

December 18, 2025

Finger Lakes Water Infrastructure Receives $30M in State Funding for Critical Upgrades

December 18, 2025

88-Unit Student Housing Development Coming to Syracuse's University Hill

December 17, 2025

TeraWulf's Lake Mariner Data Center Expansion Creates 200 Jobs in Somerset, Niagara County

December 17, 2025

Third Nature Capital Begins $10 Million Conversion of Buffalo's Pearl Street Building

December 17, 2025

Rochester Gets $59M Convention Center Renovation in 40 Years

December 17, 2025

Rochester Construction Leaders Forecast Strong 2026 Growth Despite Labor Shortages

December 17, 2025

Rochester Construction Leaders Forecast Strong 2026 Growth

December 17, 2025

Rochester Approves Major 215-Unit Apartment Development

December 17, 2025

Perinton Approves Hartwell Heights: 23-Unit Mixed-Use Development on Route 96

December 17, 2025

OSHA Issues Seven Interpretation Letters Clarifying Workplace Safety Standards

December 17, 2025

New York Opens $400M POWER UP Infrastructure Program for Industrial Sites

December 17, 2025

Micron Technology Clears Critical Environmental Permits for Massive Clay Semiconductor Plant

December 17, 2025

Lockheed Martin Advances $51 Million Owego Expansion Creating 100 New Manufacturing Jobs

December 17, 2025

House Passes PERMIT Act to Speed Infrastructure Permitting

December 17, 2025

Federal Judge Rules Trump Administration Unlawfully Canceled FEMA Disaster Prevention Grant Program

December 17, 2025

Buffalo's Elmwood Avenue Transformation: Chris Wan's 42-Unit Mixed-Use Development Underway

December 17, 2025

Boston Investor Closes $70.5M Deal for 5 Rochester Senior Living Facilities

December 17, 2025

Binghamton Awarded $7.7M in Financing for Critical Water Infrastructure Upgrades

December 17, 2025

AI Data Center Boom Creates Resource Crunch for Traditional Infrastructure Projects

December 17, 2025

88% of Construction Firms Face Hiring Challenges as Labor Shortage Threatens 2026 Growth

December 17, 2025

132-Unit East Adams Apartment Project Begins Construction in Downtown Syracuse

December 12, 2025

Rochester NY Housing Market Outlook 2026: Strong Seller's Market Ahead

December 12, 2025

Rochester NY Ranked 2nd Top Housing Market for 2026

December 12, 2025

Buffalo Adds 64 Apartments at Historic Iroquois Lofts in Larkin District

December 11, 2025

Rochester Issues $59.6M Convention Center Modernization RFP

December 11, 2025

Labor Shortage Threatens to Derail Construction Rebound in 2026

December 11, 2025

Downtown Rochester Historic Building Converts to 30 New Apartments

December 10, 2025

Rochester Begins Major Vacuum Oil Brownfield Remediation Project

December 10, 2025

Rochester Airport Completes $38M Transformational Revitalization Project

December 10, 2025

Downtown Rochester's Columbus Building Adding 30 New Apartments

December 8, 2025

U.S. Construction Industry Faces 2.7% Decline in 2025; AI Infrastructure to Drive Recovery

December 8, 2025

Rochester Launches Vacuum Oil Site Remediation to Create Riverfront Park

December 8, 2025

Rochester Airport Completes $38M Transformational Revitalization

December 8, 2025

Revolutionary Carbon-Negative Building Material Sequesters CO₂ While Setting

December 8, 2025

$94M Montgomery Intermodal Facility Launches Alabama Port Infrastructure Boom

December 6, 2025

TVA, Holtec Win $800M Federal Funding for SMR Nuclear Reactors

December 6, 2025

Rochester Begins Vacuum Oil Site Remediation: 13.5-Acre Brownfield Cleanup

December 6, 2025

Pulte Plans 317-Home Del Webb Senior Community in Rochester

December 6, 2025

Gateway Apartments: $72M Rochester Mixed-Income Housing

December 6, 2025

Construction Industry Outlook 2026: Costs, Labor Shortages, and Policy Uncertainty

December 6, 2025

$1B Fenway Center Project Stalls as Life-Science Market Contracts

December 4, 2025

Rochester Area Self-Storage Expansion Signals Market Growth

December 4, 2025

Downtown Rochester Gets Luxury Venue Overlooking City

December 4, 2025

$101.6M Harper College Student Center Nears Structural Completion

December 3, 2025

SpaceX Wins Approval for Cape Canaveral Launch Pad Expansion

December 3, 2025

Rochester Gets $14M for Lead Pipe Replacement

December 3, 2025

$44M in Li-Cycle Construction Liens Paid, Project Resumes

December 1, 2025

Webster NY: $250M Infrastructure Boom Powers Industrial Hub Growth

December 1, 2025

Rochester's Bull's Head Neighborhood Poised for Major Infrastructure and Housing Transformation

December 1, 2025

Rochester's $13 Million Affordable Housing Initiative Brings 22 New Homes to Upper Falls

December 1, 2025

Construction Workers Flee Site Over ICE Drone Fear

December 1, 2025

California High-Speed Rail: $3.5B Track Contract Marks Major Milestone

December 1, 2025

AI in Construction: How Technology Supports Workers Instead of Replacing Them

November 30, 2025

US Data Center Construction Market Set for 6% Growth

November 30, 2025

U.S. Construction Starts Surge 21% in October Megaproject Boom

November 30, 2025

U.S. Construction Reaches Historic Peak—But Storm Clouds Gather

November 30, 2025

Rochester Solar Project: Foodlink Installs 679 kW Array on Mt. Read

November 30, 2025

Rochester Schools Modernization: $125M Approved

November 30, 2025

Rochester School District Gets $125M for Building Upgrades

November 30, 2025

Rochester HVAC Contractor Expands with $835K Henrietta Facility

November 30, 2025

Rochester HVAC Contractor Expands 31K Sq Ft Facility

November 30, 2025

Rochester Area Hotel Expansion Creates $15.1M Construction Project

November 30, 2025

LEGO Breaks Ground on $366M Virginia Distribution Hub

November 30, 2025

Indus Hospitality Launches $15.1M WoodSpring Suites in Henrietta

November 30, 2025

Google and Westinghouse AI Platform Accelerates Nuclear Construction Timelines

November 30, 2025

Gov. Hochul Approves $125M for Rochester Schools Modernization Project

November 30, 2025

Federal Shutdown Surges Public Project Abandonments

November 30, 2025

EPA Redirects $4.1B for Lead Service Line Removal

November 30, 2025

Construction Starts Surge 21.1% in October on Mega-Project Activity

November 30, 2025

Commercial Construction Market Splits as Data Centers Dominate Growth

November 30, 2025

California Releases $3.5B High-Speed Rail Contract

November 23, 2025

Rochester Roots Brings 15 Energy-Efficient Homes to JOSANA Neighborhood

November 23, 2025

Glencore Resolves $44M Li-Cycle Debt, Signals Rochester Hub Revival

November 23, 2025

Construction Starts Surge 21% as Megaprojects Drive October Growth

November 21, 2025

X-energy Begins Advanced Nuclear Fuel Facility Construction in Oak Ridge

November 21, 2025

Virginia Secures $48.65M in Federal Construction Funding

November 21, 2025

Tutor Perini Hits Record $21.6B Backlog on Infrastructure Boom

November 21, 2025

Skanska Q3 2025: US Construction Powers Global Results

November 21, 2025

Rochester's $13M Affordable Housing Initiative Breaks Ground

November 21, 2025

Rochester developers adapt to financing challenges

November 21, 2025

Rochester invests $13M in affordable homes project

November 21, 2025

Rochester Schools Seek $125M Construction Funding for Facility Upgrades

November 21, 2025

Rochester Roots: 15 Energy-Efficient Homes Coming to JOSANA

November 21, 2025

Rochester Roots: $13M Affordable Housing Project Launches in Upper Falls

November 21, 2025

Rochester Roots Brings 15 Energy-Efficient Homes to JOSANA

November 21, 2025

Rochester Lead Crisis: 299 Children Affected, Infrastructure Solutions Underway

November 21, 2025

Rochester Invests $13M in First Genesis Affordable Housing

November 21, 2025

Rochester Invests $13M in Affordable Homeownership

November 21, 2025

Rochester Construction Leader Thomas Murphy Elected ABC National Chair

November 21, 2025

Rochester Construction Financing: Developers Navigate Tight Market with Cautious Optimism

November 21, 2025

Rochester Breaks Ground on 22 Affordable Homes

November 21, 2025

NAHB Report: Builder Sentiment Flat in November as Market Headwinds Persist

November 21, 2025

Li-Cycle Rochester Hub: $44M in Construction Liens Resolved

June 8, 2026

Construction's K-Shaped Economy: How the Mid-2026 Market Is Splitting Into Two Very Different Industries

June 8, 2026

New York's Data Center Moratorium Puts Billions in WNY Construction on Hold — and the Building Trades Are Not Happy

June 7, 2026

U.S. Housing Construction in June 2026: Single-Family Pulls Back, Multifamily Surges, and Affordability Remains the Defining Constraint

June 7, 2026

Architecture Billings Have Now Contracted for 42 of the Last 43 Months — What That Means for the Construction Pipeline

June 7, 2026

U.S. Pharma and Semiconductor Manufacturing Construction: The $100 Billion+ Industrial Buildout Reshaping the Map

June 7, 2026

The Data Center Power Crisis: How AI Infrastructure Is Reshaping U.S. Construction and the Electrical Grid

June 6, 2026

ConstructConnect's Blunt Warning to the Industry: Pick Your Subcategory and Your Geography — or Fall Behind

June 6, 2026

Construction Spending Hits $2.17 Trillion in April — But the Growth Is Concentrated in Two Categories

June 6, 2026

NYPA Releases $82 Million in WNY Manufacturing Construction: Cold Storage, Plastics, and a 92,000-Square-Foot Egg Facility

May 28, 2026

Low-Carbon Concrete Is Now a Federal Procurement Requirement: What $4.15 Billion in Government Buying Power Means for Construction

May 28, 2026

Offsite and Modular Construction Gets a White House Endorsement: What the 2026 Push Means for the Industry

May 28, 2026

Permitting Reform Is Reshaping How Infrastructure Gets Built: What the 2026 Federal NEPA Overhaul Means for Construction

May 28, 2026

Horizon Acres: The $142 Million Industrial Park Filling In Along the I-90 Corridor East of Buffalo

May 27, 2026

Design-Build Now Commands Nearly Half of U.S. Construction Spending — And a New Federal Law Just Expanded Its Reach

May 27, 2026

Senior Housing Construction Is at a 13-Year Low — Just as 4 Million More Americans Turn 80

May 26, 2026

America's Manufacturing Construction Boom Has Peaked — Here's What the Numbers Say

May 26, 2026

Maplevale Farms Is Building a $41 Million Refrigerated Distribution Center in Chautauqua County — After Power Issues Nearly Killed the Deal

May 25, 2026

Construction Added 9,000 Jobs in April 2026 — But the Numbers Tell Two Very Different Stories

May 25, 2026

HP Hood's $26 Million Expansion Deepens Batavia's Hold as the Northeast's Dairy Manufacturing Capital

May 24, 2026

April 2026 Housing Starts: Single-Family Pulls Back While Multifamily Surges — What the Data Means for Builders

May 24, 2026

Construction Robotics Hits a Turning Point: The 2026 Report That Shows Automation Moving From Pilot to Production

May 24, 2026

America's New Steel Revolution: U.S. Steel's $1.9 Billion DRI Plant and the Domestic Manufacturing Wave Reshaping the Industry

May 24, 2026

Rochester's Downtown Construction Cycle Hits $625 Million — and a New Wave of Office Conversions Is Just Getting Started

May 24, 2026

Abnex Breaks Ground on a $15 Million South Buffalo Expansion — Adding 45,000 Square Feet of Cable Management Manufacturing

May 23, 2026

ConstructConnect's Spring 2026 Forecast: $2.27 Trillion, 5.1% Growth, and a Data Center Supercycle Rewriting the Outlook

May 23, 2026

America's First Domestic Semiconductor Pump Factory Opens in Genesee County This Fall

May 22, 2026

Buffalo's 60-Day Demolition Moratorium Signals a Shift in How the City Manages Its Building Stock

May 21, 2026

Turner Opens Its AI Safety Tool to the Entire Construction Industry — Free of Charge

May 21, 2026

Construction Input Prices Surge 6.6% Year Over Year in April 2026 as Energy and Metals Costs Widen the Bid-Price Gap

May 20, 2026

Dodge Momentum Index Surges 6% in April 2026 as Nonresidential Planning Finds Its Footing

May 19, 2026

ABC's Construction Backlog Hits 10-Month High in April 2026, But the Strength Is Concentrated at the Top

May 18, 2026

Army Corps Launches "Building Infrastructure, Not Paperwork" — A 27-Initiative Overhaul of Civil Works Delivery

May 18, 2026

Riedman's $42.6 Million Clinton Square Conversion Advances — 102 Market-Rate Apartments Coming to Downtown Rochester's Most Iconic Office Tower

May 17, 2026

Architecture Billings Are Almost Back: What the AIA's March 2026 Data Means for Nonresidential Construction

May 15, 2026

2026 Army Corps Nationwide Permits Take Effect in New York: What Developers and Contractors Need to Know

May 14, 2026

OSHA's 13th Annual Fall Prevention Stand-Down Arrives as 2024 Construction Fatality Data Shows 1,034 Deaths

May 14, 2026

New York's All-Electric Buildings Mandate Is on Hold — Here's What Western New York Contractors Need to Know

May 10, 2026

Cold Storage Construction: What a Market Correction Tells Us About the Next Build Cycle

May 9, 2026

U.S. Industrial Construction Pipeline Ticks Back Up as Market Stabilizes in 2026

May 8, 2026

$45 Billion Under Construction: Inside the U.S. Battery Manufacturing Build-Out

May 7, 2026

Big-Box, Warehouse, and Chain Store Construction: The National Retail Build-Out Underway in 2026

May 7, 2026

The 2026 U.S. Manufacturing Construction Boom: EV Plants, Drug Facilities, and the Race to Build

May 6, 2026

Pharma's $480 Billion U.S. Construction Wave: What Onshoring Means for Builders and Owners

May 6, 2026

U.S. Hospital Construction Hits a Generational High: 79 Million Square Feet Underway

May 6, 2026

America's Semiconductor Construction Boom: The Biggest Fab Projects Reshaping U.S. Manufacturing

May 5, 2026

U.S. Construction Spending Holds Near $2.19T as Public Work Supports the Market

January 9, 2026

NYC Construction Superintendent Rule Limits to One Primary Job Effective January 2026

January 5, 2026

OSHA 2026 Safety Deadlines: What Contractors Must Know

January 5, 2026

Managing Complex Industrial & Commercial Projects: WCG's Design-Build Approach

June 8, 2026

Diesel Up 73.8%, Copper Up 21%, Steel Up 15%: The Construction Input Cost Crisis About to Hit Owners

May 27, 2026

Construction Insurance in 2026 Is a Two-Speed Market — and Contractors Need to Know Which Lane They're In

May 26, 2026

Record Municipal Bond Issuance Is Financing a New Era of U.S. Infrastructure Construction

May 25, 2026

Builder Confidence Is 37 — And Has Been Below 50 for 14 Straight Months. What That Means for U.S. Housing Construction.

May 24, 2026

Congress Passes the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act: What It Means for Home Builders and Construction Nationwide

May 23, 2026

What the One Big Beautiful Bill Means for the Construction Industry: Tax Cuts, Permitting Wins, and Green Credit Phase-Outs

May 15, 2026

Sound Transit's $34.5 Billion Budget Crisis Is a Warning Sign for US Transit Construction Finance

May 15, 2026

Buffalo's Capital Budget Bond Dispute: How a Two-Year Legal Battle Is Reshaping the City's Construction Season

May 14, 2026

Tariff-Driven Materials Costs Squeeze Construction Budgets Heading into Summer 2026

May 12, 2026

Infrastructure First: How the Finger Lakes Is Unlocking Thousands of New Homes Through Targeted Construction Investment

May 6, 2026

The Clock Is Ticking on America's Highway Bill: What IIJA's Expiration Means for Construction

February 1, 2026

OSHA Extends Hazard Communication Compliance Deadlines by Four Months

January 5, 2026

Rochester $98M Affordable Housing Projects Announced

January 5, 2026

House Passes SPEED Act to Accelerate Federal Infrastructure Project Permitting

January 5, 2026

Buffalo Bills Stadium $2.1B Construction 75% Complete, Opens Summer 2026

January 5, 2026

Amazon Expands Rochester With $7.25M Same-Day Delivery Facility

January 5, 2026

Amazon $7.25M Ogden Facility: Rochester Same-Day Delivery Expansion

June 8, 2026

National Safety Month 2026: What Construction's Fatality Data, the Struck-By Stand-Down, and Prevention Through Design Mean for the Field

May 26, 2026

America's Defense Industrial Base Is Under Construction: Inside the $3+ Billion Solid Rocket Motor Building Wave

May 25, 2026

100 Local Moratoriums and $64 Billion Blocked: The Data Center Opposition That's Now a Construction Industry Problem

May 24, 2026

The NEVI EV Charging Construction Program: $4.4 Billion, a Federal Freeze, and What's Actually Getting Built in 2026

May 23, 2026

A Niagara Falls Defense Contractor Is Building a $29 Million Expansion — Fueled by a Pentagon Rocket Motor Contract

May 21, 2026

The Gordie Howe Bridge Is Finished. It Just Won't Open. What a $6.4 Billion Canada-Funded Crossing Tells Us About Infrastructure Politics in 2026.

May 21, 2026

Ontario County Opens Bids for the FLCC Culinary Arts Center of Excellence — A 19,250-Square-Foot Canandaigua Lakefront Facility

May 18, 2026

Cleveland's $2.6 Billion Huntington Bank Field Breaks Ground — Northeast Ohio's Largest Construction Project Is Now Active

May 18, 2026

Station 12 in Amherst Places Its Final Beam — Buffalo's First Upscale Open-Air Retail Center Will Begin Opening This Fall

May 16, 2026

Buffalo's Hispanic Heritage Cultural Institute Nears the Finish Line After Three Years of Construction

May 14, 2026

Rivian's $5 Billion Georgia EV Plant Enters Vertical Construction Phase as DOE Loan Is Restructured

May 14, 2026

Glencore Pays $44 Million in Construction Liens on Stalled Rochester Battery Hub — Clearing the Path to Restart

May 12, 2026

America's First Utility-Scale Advanced Nuclear Plant Breaks Ground in Wyoming

May 11, 2026

Niagara Digital Campus: A $1.5 Billion Data Center Proposal Navigates the Path to Groundbreaking in Niagara Falls

May 10, 2026

Transit Construction Pipeline Stalls as Federal Grant Program Goes 14 Months Without a New Approval

May 8, 2026

Building Toward 2028: The Construction Programs Reshaping Los Angeles for the Olympics

February 1, 2026

New York Scaffold Law Driving Up Contractor Costs 8-10% of Development Fees

February 1, 2026

New York Invests $1 Million in Hemp Manufacturing Lab at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

February 1, 2026

New York Awards $265 Million for Water Infrastructure and Climate Resiliency Projects

February 1, 2026

$55 Million AI Research Center Approved for SUNY Binghamton

June 8, 2026

The $136 Billion Countdown: What the IIJA Expiration and the BUILD America 250 Act Mean for U.S. Construction

June 8, 2026

Erie County's 2026 Road and Bridge Construction Season: $50 Million, 100+ Miles, and the Biggest Reconstruction Projects in a Decade

June 8, 2026

Monroe County's First New Comprehensive Plan in 40 Years Is Now Open for Comment — Here's What 'Plan Forward' Means for Housing and Infrastructure

June 8, 2026

Amazon's $550 Million Town of Niagara Fulfillment Center Is Almost Done — 1,000 Jobs, 3.1 Million Square Feet, and a Regional Supply Chain Shift

June 7, 2026

Seneca Park Zoo's $100 Million Expansion Is Finally Going to Bid — and Monroe County Is Confident It Can Be Built This Time

June 7, 2026

Harper's Corner Completes: A $12.8 Million Downtown Rochester Transformation That Was 40 Years in the Making

June 7, 2026

I-90 Erie County Thruway Gets a $64 Million Overhaul: What the 6.5-Mile Reconstruction Means for Buffalo's Most-Used Interchange

June 7, 2026

New Highmark Stadium Reaches Substantial Completion: Ribbon Cutting Set for June 23 as Bills' $2.2 Billion Home Prepares to Open

June 7, 2026

Ralph Wilson Park Phase 2 Breaks Ground: A $78.4 Million Playground, Freighter, and Waterfront Transformation for Buffalo

June 6, 2026

Two Major Industrial Manufacturing Plants Break Ground in One Week — What the Projects Reveal About U.S. Industrial Construction

June 6, 2026

$7 Billion, 63,000 Construction Jobs, 5,000 Homes: Chicago's 1901 Project Breaks Ground at the United Center

June 6, 2026

A Condemned Holiday Inn in Gates Is Coming Down — And an $18.7 Million Building Materials Warehouse Is Going Up

June 6, 2026

Diamond Lofts Moves Forward in Buffalo's Midtown: 167 Apartments Planned for Two Main Street Buildings

June 6, 2026

Twenty-Eight Years and a Court Ruling: What Comes Next for Buffalo's AM&A's Building at 377 Main

June 6, 2026

Niagara Falls Clears the Legal Logjam: A $200 Million Arena and Event Campus Is Now Moving Forward

May 28, 2026

The West Is Building Water Again: $889 Million in Federal Investment and the Sites Reservoir Groundbreaking Signal a New Era

May 28, 2026

East Buffalo's $20 Million Kensington-Bailey Health Center Is Nearing Its Summer 2026 Opening — Built on Vacant Land Where Healthcare Access Was 30 Minutes Away on Foot

May 28, 2026

Blocher Apartments Opens in Williamsville — 93 Units of Affordable Housing in One of Erie County's Priciest Suburbs

May 28, 2026

Hotel Niagara's $58.8 Million Restoration Moves Into Interior Work — A 100-Year-Old Landmark Targets 2027 Opening

May 27, 2026

FRA Opens $2 Billion in Rail Infrastructure Grants — Here's What's at Stake for Freight and Passenger Corridors

May 27, 2026

Chickamauga Lock's $954 Million Rebuild Hits a Crisis — and What It Reveals About America's Waterway Infrastructure Backlog

May 27, 2026

Niagara County's 2026 Federal Aid Bridge Reconstruction Program: Nine-Plus Structures Across Eleven Towns

May 27, 2026

Lockport's $66 Million Bewley Building Adaptive Reuse Navigates Political Headwinds — PathStone Targets Late 2026 HFA Closing

May 27, 2026

Cattaraugus County's $33 Million 2026 Capital Infrastructure Plan: Roads, Bridges, and Culverts Across the Southern Tier

May 27, 2026

Monroe County's 2026 Capital Highway and Bridge Program: Five Bridge Replacements and Road Work Across 15+ Communities

May 27, 2026

Dunkirk's $38 Million Housing Push: "Homesteads at Dunkirk Landing" Breaks Ground on 78 Apartments

May 26, 2026

Office-to-Apartment Conversions Hit 90,300 Units — The Construction Pipeline Behind the Boom

May 26, 2026

Lockport's Livery Row Is Coming: A $9.6 Million Mixed-Use Project Transforms the City's North Entrance

May 26, 2026

New York's $20.4 Million Freight Rail Investment in the Finger Lakes: Six Projects, Two Bridge Replacements, and a Fight to Save the Arcade and Attica

May 26, 2026

Buffalo's Fruit Belt Is Getting a $134 Million Expansion — And It's Just Phase One of a $1 Billion Bet on the East Side

May 25, 2026

House Passes $580 Billion BUILD America 250 Act: What the Surface Transportation Reauthorization Means for Construction

May 25, 2026

North Tonawanda's $10 Million DRI Is Delivering: The Canal City's Construction Comeback Is Almost Complete

May 25, 2026

Monroe County Raises and Realigns Lake Road to Shield Webster's Lake Ontario Shoreline From Future Flooding

May 25, 2026

Tonawanda Island Gets Its First Residential Building and a $5.6 Million Infrastructure Overhaul

May 24, 2026

New York Invests $18.7 Million Across 21 Projects in Western New York Through DRI and NY Forward Programs

May 24, 2026

Harrison Lofts Is Six Months From Opening: Inside Lockport's $30 Million Adaptive Reuse of the Harrison Radiator Complex

May 24, 2026

Niagara Falls' $125 Million Gateway Project: 325 Homes, Four Buildings, and a Market-Rate Bet on Downtown

May 23, 2026

Rochester Public Market's Long-Planned Indoor Expansion Lands $2 Million Federal Funding Boost

May 23, 2026

WRDA 2026 Is Taking Shape: Inside the Army Corps Authorization Bill That Could Unlock Ports, Waterways, and Flood Projects Nationwide

May 23, 2026

Rochester Is Rebuilding Cobbs Hill Village From the Ground Up — 104 New Senior Homes by Summer 2026

May 23, 2026

Rochester Housing Authority Prepares to Demolish and Rebuild Glenwood Gardens — 180 Senior Units, $145 Million

May 23, 2026

The Navy's $47 Billion Shipbuilding Push Is Reshaping U.S. Shipyard Construction — Here Is What Is Being Built and Where

May 22, 2026

Two Major U.S. Highway Corridors Break Ground in 2026: Florida's I-4 and Asheville's Long-Awaited I-26 Connector

May 22, 2026

Thruway Launches $29.9 Million I-90 Resurfacing Through the Finger Lakes — Part of a Record $600 Million+ 2026 Construction Season

May 22, 2026

Buffalo's $29.3 Million Breckenridge Sewer Project Launches Construction on the West Side

May 21, 2026

EPA Releases $2.9 Billion to Replace Lead Service Lines Nationwide — the Largest Single-Year Federal Allocation for Lead Pipe Construction

May 21, 2026

Buffalo Is Getting a Cruise Ship Terminal: Construction on the Outer Harbor Begins in July 2026

May 21, 2026

Barilla's $170 Million Expansion in Avon Is One of the Finger Lakes' Largest Active Industrial Construction Projects

May 21, 2026

Buffalo's Middle Main Streetscape Breaks Ground: A $70 Million Corridor Overhaul from Goodell to Kensington

May 20, 2026

America's K-12 School Construction Wave: $82 Billion in Bonds, a $429 Billion Infrastructure Gap, and the Projects Underway in 2026

May 20, 2026

Second Avenue Subway Phase 2: Civil Construction Is Underway as New York's $7 Billion Q Train Extension Takes Shape

May 20, 2026

Rochester's $38 Million Fernwood Avenue Apartments Will Bring 65 Affordable Homes — and the City's First New Branch Library in Decades

May 20, 2026

Iroquois Lofts: A $30 Million Historic Rehab Transforms a 120-Year-Old Buffalo Factory Into 64 Apartments

May 20, 2026

Building Buffalo Roots: 45 New Single-Family Homes Are Under Construction Across Six Neighborhoods — and the First Are Now for Sale

May 20, 2026

UNC Dairy's $250 Million West Seneca Expansion Is Now Under Construction — Western New York's Largest Active Food Manufacturing Build

May 19, 2026

Amtrak's Largest-Ever Capital Program Puts Rail Yards, Tunnels, and Stations Under Construction Nationwide

May 19, 2026

EPA's WIFIA Program Closes $682 Million in Water Infrastructure Loans in Early 2026 as National Backlog Grows

May 19, 2026

America's Sports Venue Construction Wave: Titans Stadium, OKC Arena, and a Las Vegas Ballpark Reshape the Industry

May 19, 2026

Buffalo's 1893 Dun Building Is Becoming 36 Apartments — A $10 Million Adaptive Reuse Project Brings Life Back to the City's First High-Rise

May 19, 2026

Boulevard Mall's Demolition Is Imminent — And the Mixed-Use Redevelopment That Follows Is One of Amherst's Biggest Construction Opportunities in Decades

May 19, 2026

Eastern Hills Town Center Gets Its Funding Unlock: What New York's $30 Million Sewer Grant Means for WNY's Most Anticipated Redevelopment

May 19, 2026

NYSDOT Begins $51.5 Million I-590 Bridge Replacement in Brighton — Monroe County's Most Traveled Commuter Route Is Under Construction

May 19, 2026

Buffalo Niagara Airport Lands $8.7 Million to Replace Up to Eight Boarding Bridges

May 18, 2026

California High-Speed Rail Is Actively Building — But a $2 Billion Funding Gap and a $231 Billion Cost Reframe Are Defining 2026

May 18, 2026

MBTA Awards $1.06 Billion to Replace Boston's 1931 Charles River Rail Bridges — One of the Largest Commuter Rail Contracts in U.S. History

May 18, 2026

State Releases $19 Million for Construction Across Canandaigua, Brockport, and Phelps — 23 Projects in the Finger Lakes

May 17, 2026

Houston's $13 Billion I-45 Rebuild Is Actively Under Construction — Here's Where It Stands

May 17, 2026

Louisiana Breaks Ground on a $2.3 Billion I-10 Calcasieu River Bridge — Its Largest Transportation Investment Ever

May 17, 2026

Rochester's $18 Million Intermodal Station Expansion Has the Funding — But Two Years Later, Construction Has Not Begun

May 17, 2026

Renaissance Commerce Park Enters Phase Two: Two New Industrial Projects Transform the Former Bethlehem Steel Site in Lackawanna

May 17, 2026

Erie County Water Authority's $320 Million Lead Pipe Replacement Is One of Western New York's Largest Active Infrastructure Programs

May 17, 2026

Seneca Park Zoo's $100 Million Expansion Moves Toward Construction: What Rochester's Largest Public Capital Project Means for Builders

May 16, 2026

Austin's $7 Billion Light Rail System Moves into Construction: Key Contracts Awarded, Revenue Service Targeted for 2033

May 16, 2026

Coast Guard Awards $612 Million in Base Construction — Its Largest Shore Award in History

May 16, 2026

Georgia's $11 Billion SR 400 Express Lanes: One of the Largest P3 Highway Projects in U.S. History Breaks Ground

May 16, 2026

Chicago's $5.7 Billion Red Line Extension Breaks Ground — And Survived a Federal Funding Fight to Do It

May 16, 2026

NYSDOT Begins $13.3 Million in Transit Road Rehabilitation Across Niagara County

May 16, 2026

A 20-Year-Vacant Bowling Alley in Buffalo Is Becoming 134 Affordable Apartments

May 16, 2026

Batavia Wins Its Second $10 Million DRI Award — and a Data Center Is Already Breaking Ground

May 15, 2026

State DOT Construction Season 2026: Billions in Highway and Bridge Work Hit the Ground Simultaneously

May 15, 2026

Shintech's $3.4 Billion Louisiana Expansion: One of the Largest Industrial Construction Starts of 2026

May 15, 2026

From Grain Silos to Sold-Out Lofts: Silo City's American Mill Redevelopment Sets a New Benchmark for Buffalo Adaptive Reuse

May 15, 2026

Rochester's $300 Million Transformation Initiative: What Construction Professionals Need to Know

May 15, 2026

Buffalo's Broadway Market Set for $40-45 Million Renovation Starting Summer 2026

May 14, 2026

U.S. Housing Supply Gap Widens to 4 Million Homes as New Construction Falls Short of Demand

May 14, 2026

Western New York's First New Medical School in 180 Years Is Under Construction Downtown Buffalo

May 14, 2026

Buffalo's $92 Million DPW Campus Deal Is One of the Largest Public-Works Construction Packages in City History

May 14, 2026

FeedMore WNY's $107 Million Hamburg Campus Is Taking Shape — And It's One of WNY's Largest Active Construction Projects

May 13, 2026

Digging Deep: America's Urban CSO Tunnel Wave Gains Momentum in 2026

May 13, 2026

U.S. Offshore Wind Construction Moves Forward Despite Federal Headwinds

May 13, 2026

Amazon Is Building a Second Major Facility in Ogden — Here's What It Means for Monroe County's Industrial Corridor

May 13, 2026

Buffalo's $2 Billion Metro Rail Expansion Clears Federal Environmental Review

May 13, 2026

Buffalo Central Terminal Phase 2 Hits the Halfway Mark — Here's What's Happening Inside

May 12, 2026

America's 92,000 Aging Dams Are a Construction Crisis Hiding in Plain Sight

May 12, 2026

U.S. Ports Are Racing to Rebuild: A $60 Billion Infrastructure Wave Takes Shape

May 12, 2026

East Buffalo's $126 Million Towne Gardens Rehabilitation Signals a Turning Point for the East Side

May 12, 2026

Buffalo Harbor State Park's $47.5 Million Makeover Opens for Summer 2026

May 12, 2026

Strong Memorial Hospital's $650 Million Expansion Is Redefining Emergency Care in Rochester

May 11, 2026

University Campus Construction Is Surging: Megaprojects Reshape Research, Housing, and Academic Facilities Nationwide

May 11, 2026

Brightline West Moves Through Civil Construction: America's First True High-Speed Rail Takes Shape

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