Construction Dive

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Construction Dive’s Friday Punch List is a series dedicated to sharing major building headlines that contractors may have missed from the week. This week’s headlines showed a few major builders announcing wins with eye-popping contract amounts.

Fulton Cure is a consultant at Baltimore-based Well Built Construction Consulting, a Baltimore-based firm that delivers strategic consulting, facilitation services and peer roundtables for construction executives. Opinions are the author’s own. I don’t believe it’s controversial to say that there is a communication problem in the construction industry. Missed updates, late surprises and misaligned teams are cited on nearly every project as sources of delay, cost overruns and general frustration.

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Sustaining growth in construction is always impressive and often revealing. As projects become larger and more complex, the risks embedded within them expand just as quickly. Patterns often emerge long before they appear in any single contractor’s loss history. However, most contractors do not struggle because they lack skill or opportunity. More often, they have greater loss exposure when growth outpaces the alignment between contracts, risk allocation and insurance programs.

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Construction Dive’s Friday Punch List is a series dedicated to sharing major building headlines that contractors may have missed from the week. It was another big week for construction headlines. President Donald Trump adjusted tariffs on major building materials, and contech firm Trimble signed an agreement to acquire Document Crunch, an AI startup for scanning contracts.

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Mortenson has joined other major builders in adding to its offerings through mergers and acquisitions and expansions. The Minneapolis-based contractor has acquired Nor-Cal Controls, a control systems provider specializing in energy management control systems for solar, battery energy storage and microgrid applications, according to a Thursday news release.

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Ken Fulginiti is a trial lawyer and founder of Philadelphia-based Fulginiti Law. Opinions are the author’s own. Across the United States, skylines are rising again. Cities are converting office towers into residential buildings. Housing shortages are driving mixed-use developments. Urban cores are rebuilding vertically rather than outward.

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Within 48 hours of Hurricane Milton tearing off the roof of Tropicana Field, Kenneth Johnson was on the phone with the city of St. Petersburg, Florida. Within 72 hours, Johnson said his team was on the site of the MLB ballpark. “It looked like an atomic bomb went off,” Johnson, executive vice president of sports for AECOM Hunt, said of the aftermath of the October 2024 hurricane.

Facility condition assessments (FCAs) are some of the most tedious work education facilities teams do. You may be inspecting hundreds or thousands of individual assets across multiple buildings. To get complete information, you're pulling records from school administrators, tracking down missing asset information and reconciling what’s changed since the last assessment. Often, those details are buried in PDFs, emails, paper files and maintenance records—and they’re rarely in a reusable format.

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Editor’s note: This story focuses on the topic of mental health and suicide. If you or someone you know is having suicidal thoughts, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988. The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention has formed new partnerships to boost the outreach of its Hard Hat Courage initiative, aimed at reducing the rate of suicide in construction.