Construction & Infrastructure

Virginia Beach, Va. – September 30, 2026 -- Arcadis joined the City of Virginia Beach to break ground on the Windsor Woods Pump Station, a key infrastructure piece in a citywide flood-resilience network covering the Windsor Woods, Princess Anne Plaza and The Lakes neighborhoods.

Pump station anchors a broader drainage improvements program funded by voters

The facility forms a cornerstone of the Windsor Woods, Princess Anne Plaza and The Lakes Drainage Improvements Program, designed to reduce flood risk from heavy rainfall, high tides and storm surge. The project is financed through Virginia Beach's voter-supported Ripple Effect Flood Protection Program and extends earlier investments into a coordinated citywide flood-defense system.

Washington – September 30, 2026 -- MedStar Health, Georgetown University and The Coalition hosted the first Business Local Impact Connection Day — Construction Edition at Georgetown University's Capitol Campus, aiming to link local D.C.-area businesses with prime contractors in the construction sector.

DCAP institutions have channeled $1.5 billion into D.C.-based businesses since 2017

The event is part of the DC Community Anchor Partnership (DCAP), a program run by The Coalition that has grown from four founding anchor institutions in 2017 to 17 today. Cumulative spending by DCAP members with D.C.-based businesses has surpassed $1.5 billion over that period.

Santa Clara, Calif. – September 30, 2026 -- The producer price index for new nonresidential construction inputs climbed 8.4% year over year through May 2026, the steepest annual increase since the pandemic period, according to DPR Construction's latest Market Conditions Report.

Cross-sector demand strains shared labor and supply pools

DPR Construction, a self-performing contractor, finds that investment across digital infrastructure, healthcare, advanced manufacturing, transportation and energy is pulling from the same pools of electricians, mechanical trades, commissioning specialists and field leaders. Projects that appear unrelated on paper are increasingly tied together through overlapping resource demands, the report states.

Newark, N.J. – – September 30, 2026 -- Panasonic Eco Systems North America (PESNA) has signed a strategic builder partnership with 1st Choice Development to install its OASYS whole-home indoor air quality system in new construction near Downtown Houston, targeting a market where humidity and ozone routinely degrade indoor air.

ICU nurse-turned-developer embeds health standards into first duplex and single-family build

Byron Holman, an ICU nurse and co-founder of 1st Choice Development, is integrating OASYS into the company's first duplex and single-family home currently under development. Holman said the goal is to extend healthier, higher-performing housing features to everyday homeowners rather than reserving them for luxury construction.

San Francisco – September 30, 2026 -- Miter, an AI-powered workforce management platform for the construction industry, has raised a $40 million Series B round led by Battery Ventures, pushing its total capital raised to $78 million. Existing backers Bessemer Venture Partners and Coatue also participated in the round.

Construction sector defies broader U.S. job slowdown

The construction industry added 22,000 jobs in August even as overall U.S. employment declined, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. AI data center construction drove much of that growth, a trend both the sector and Miter expect to continue.

New York and Bath, England – – September 30, 2026 -- A joint research study by Dynamic Infrastructure and the University of Bath has found that leading frontier vision-language models do not yet deliver the robustness needed for real-world infrastructure inspection, even as more specialised AI approaches perform substantially better on the same task.

The Bronx, N.Y. – September 29, 2026 -- The International Organization for Standardization published the third revision of ISO 3941 on January 21, 2026, introducing Class L as a distinct fire classification for lithium-ion cell and battery fires, arriving as New York City enforces a 1 kWh threshold for lithium-ion energy storage systems under its amended NFPA 855 code. Allstate Sprinkler, a Bronx-based fire protection contractor operating since 1972, released an analysis linking the new global standard to New York's existing regulatory posture and to FDNY incident data spanning 2023 through mid-2026.

Richmond, Va. – September 29, 2026 -- Construction has begun on five 3D-printed affordable single-family homes at Carter Place I in eastern Henrico County, backed by a $1.1 million Innovation Demonstration grant from Virginia Housing. Richmond Metropolitan Habitat for Humanity broke ground on the development at 1590 Darbytown Road near Richmond International Airport, deploying a mobile 3D concrete printer purchased by the Virginia Center for Housing Research at Virginia Tech.

Birmingham, Ala. – September 29, 2026 -- The Ductile Iron Pipe Research Association (DIPRA) has promoted Gregg Horn to Senior Vice President of Research and Josh Blount to Vice President of Technical Resources, elevating two veteran staffers to lead the trade group's core technical operations.

Horn takes charge of research after 40 years with the association

Horn joined DIPRA in 1986 as a Regional Engineer, became Director of Regional Engineers in 1990, and served as Vice President of Technical Resources since 2013. In his new role, he will lead DIPRA's technical research efforts, Standards activities and comparative studies of substitute materials, while facilitating the Technical Committee, Environmental Subcommittee and other groups addressing research on Ductile iron pipe. He is a Life Member of the American Water Works Association (AWWA) and has served on committees within AWWA, ASCE, ASTM and ISO.

Seattle and San Francisco – September 29, 2026 -- ITpipes, a pipe inspection software provider used by more than 300 utilities, municipalities, and CCTV contractors across North America, has secured a strategic growth investment from Luminate Capital Partners to accelerate development of its AI-driven defect-detection technology.

Aging sewer networks face a $69 billion annual funding gap

The American Society of Civil Engineers gave U.S. wastewater infrastructure a D+ rating in its 2025 Report Card, pointing to more than 1.87 million miles of collection system pipe and a roughly $69 billion annual capital investment shortfall. Utilities are being asked to inspect more pipe and justify every dollar of spending with the same crews and budgets they had a decade ago, raising demand for condition data that regulators and finance officers can trust.