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As technology evolves, so do the ways in which commercial properties are visualized and marketed. In this Q&A with architect-turned-architectural visualizer and the founder of Panoptikon, Tudor Vasiliu, Construction Executive asks about the latest trends for 2025 that are shaping...

As electric vehicles are reshaping industries and accelerating innovation, the growing number of EV battery manufacturing facilities remains critical to this transformation. In 2019, two EV battery factories were operating in the United States, and another two were under construc...

PROJECT | Diamond Green Diesel 3 Ecofiner Mechanical LOCATION | Port Arthur, Texas GENERAL CONTRACTOR | Performance Contractors CLIENT| Diamond Green Diesel SCOPE | The project included 113 pieces of equipment, 1,900 tons of steel and 94,000 feet of pipe installed on an aggre...

Residents of Gretna, Louisiana, have new reasons to get excited about an old space: a 100-year-old schoolhouse that’s been revitalized for use as Primary Workspace, a coworking and event space that launched in February. Across from uptown New Orleans on the Mississippi River, the...

Step back in time, and there’s a good chance that most of the names in the construction business no longer exist. Of the more than 43,000 construction companies that started in the spring of 2011, less than 38% managed to stick around a decade later, according to data from the U....

WASHINGTON, March 13—Construction input prices increased 0.6% in February, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Producer Price Index data released recently. Nonresidential construction input prices also increased 0.6% fo...

PROJECT | Wilderness Treehouse Cabins GENERAL CONTRACTOR | Holtz Builders CLIENT | Wilderness Hotel and Resorts Inc. LOCATION | Wisconsin Dells, Wis. SCOPE | In just 7 1/2 months—and six weeks ahead of schedule—Holtz Builders delivered eight extraordinary mountain-modern, thr...

The potential for cheap or inferior construction equipment and materials from China to end up in the United States is a multi-pronged, wide-ranging and complex problem—and it comes with a host of potentially detrimental effects. The issue pertains to trade rules, behaviors that ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3—National nonresidential construction spending decreased 0.2% in December 2024, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data published today by the U.S. Census Bureau. On a seasonally adjusted annualized basis, nonresidential spending tot...

Like a student cramming for an exam, Phelps Construction Group faced a tight deadline. The Denville, New Jersey­-based company was hired to renovate a space for Kindle Education, a tuition-free public charter school with about 460 students grades 6-12. The new location, for stude...