Building Design & Construction

Skip to main content AECOM, Hensel Phelps, Turner Construction, Holder Construction, Suffolk, Clark Group, Manhattan Construction Group, Walsh Group, and Swinerton top Building Design+Construction's ranking of the nation's largest airport terminal and airport facility sector contractors and construction management firms for 2026, as reported in BD+C's 2026 Giants 400 Report.

In a first-of-its-kind fight over the public impact of data centers, Nevada's NV Energy has sued data center developer Tract over two planned campuses near Reno. The utility, which powers most of the state, is accusing the company of trying to pass costs onto consumers. The two planned data centers would together draw more than 2 gigawatts of power, nearly a third of the utility’s generating capacity.

The digital transformation of multifamily access over the last 10 years has been remarkable. Walk through a modern Class A or B property today and many of its most important access points are likely to be electronic. The lobby, package room, fitness center, parking garage, and amenity deck may all respond to a card, fob, phone, or code. Operators can issue and revoke access centrally, and electronic access creates a record that mechanical keys simply can't.

Construction recently began at the University of Rochester on a new Student Life building that will provide gathering, rehearsal, and programmatic space, along with a new home for the Greenbaum Center for Jewish Life. The two-story, 15,000 sf building, scheduled to open in fall 2027, addresses longstanding space constraints at the University’s Interfaith Chapel.

Transformed from a post office built in the 1930s into a 23-room boutique hotel in Bend, Ore., The Westman blends historic preservation with modern hotel standards, meeting both the owner’s and guests’ expectations while saving history. For LRS Architects, combining history with meeting modern expectations became central to the design approach. Rather than working against the limitations of the existing building, the team found ways to turn them into design opportunities.

Skip to main content AECOM, Gensler, Corgan, PGAL, HOK, HNTB, Stantec, and Gresham Smith top Building Design+Construction's ranking of the nation's largest airport terminal and airport facility sector architecture and architecture/engineering (AE) firms for 2026, as reported in BD+C's 2026 Giants 400 Report. Pictured: United Polaris Lounge, O’Hare International Airport, designed by SCB.

Bedrock Robotics announced this month that excavators equipped with its AI system are now operating fully autonomously on customer sites. Equipment outfitted with the technology is performing autonomous excavation at three sites: a Nevada-based water treatment facility in partnership with Sundt Construction, a multi-million cubic yard earthwork site with Champion Site Prep in Texas, and a 1.2 million cubic yard civil sitework project with Zachry Construction Corporation.

This blog post was authored by Phil Rowland, Director of Environmental Graphic Design and Associate Principal, GBBN. So, you’ve invested hours watching a great television show. As the show builds toward its finale, the excitement is palpable. Then the finale happens.

McCarthy Building Companies recently broke ground on a major renovation of a 12-acre learning and training campus that will include a hotel and conference center in Tempe, Ariz. Dedicated to employee development and leadership training, the McCarthy Anchor Campus (2100 S.

Skip to main content A new executive order mandates standards on energy affordability, environmental protection, workforce/economic development, transparency, and community engagement. Image by Colossus Cloud from Pixabay Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro recently issued an executive order that requires data center developers to meet a series of requirements addressing energy, environmental, and other concerns to build new projects in the state.