Construction & Infrastructure

St. Cloud, Minn. and Marietta, Ga. – September 24, 2026 -- GeoComm and SCENA have formed a partnership to deliver indoor mapping at scale for organizations managing large, distributed, or complex facility portfolios, combining public safety grade location intelligence with national reality-capture capacity.

SCENA adds national field capacity and multi-technology capture to GeoComm's mapping pipeline

SCENA brings LiDAR scanning, Matterport-based digital twins, 360-degree imagery, point clouds, drone capture, and as-built documentation to the partnership, expanding the range of capture approaches GeoComm can deploy across a project. GeoComm contributes public safety grade location intelligence expertise and GIS data quality standards required to prepare indoor data for mission-critical use.

Jacksonville, Fla. – September 24, 2026 -- LandSouth Construction, a multifamily general contractor operating across the Southeast for nearly 30 years, has launched a redesigned website at www.LandSouth.com aimed at how developers now research and vet construction partners before making contact.

New site structures project history by market, location, and construction expertise

The platform allows developers, owners, and investors to explore LandSouth's work across multifamily luxury housing, HUD/affordable housing, and other specialized development sectors in one place. The company said the redesign gives prospective clients clearer visibility into its nearly three-decade project history and the types of developments it has delivered.

St. Louis – September 24, 2026 -- Novaclad has released a free iOS app that measures a kitchen with an iPhone's LiDAR sensor, prices a countertop from a fabricator's own catalog, and routes the job to a local shop in about five minutes, replacing a quoting process that has traditionally taken days.

The app is the first consumer product built on Novaclad's AI-LiDAR measurement engine and marks the initial piece of the company's planned Fabrication Cloud, a network intended to connect homeowners directly to local fabricators of countertops, cabinetry, tile and millwork.

Ketchum, Idaho – September 23, 2026 -- Skilled trades workers reach financial break-even by age 19, nearly seven years faster than bachelor's degree holders who hit that mark at 26, according to new commissioned research from truck-storage manufacturer DECKED. The findings, drawn from an economic trajectory study and a proprietary survey of 500 tradespeople, anchor the company's new Built for Those Who Build campaign, launching with a Builder's Day event on Sept. 30 at DECKED's manufacturing facility in Defiance, Ohio.

Jacksonville, Fla. – September 23, 2026 -- Mattamy Homes' Jacksonville Division has been named one of the First Coast's Best Places to Work for 2026 by the Jacksonville Business Journal, with the honor determined entirely through confidential employee surveys.

Independent research firm surveys drive the workplace ranking

The Best Places to Work program relies on confidential employee surveys conducted by an independent workplace research firm, allowing staff to submit candid feedback on dozens of factors including leadership effectiveness, professional development, and compensation and benefits alignment. Honorees are selected based directly on these survey results rather than employer nominations.

Columbus, Ohio – September 23, 2026 -- Bay Crane Companies will offer its entire surplus fleet at a no-reserve absolute auction on Tuesday, October 20, 2026, starting at 9:00 a.m. Eastern, after selecting Jeff Martin Auctioneers to run the sale.

Bay Crane liquidates excess iron following recent acquisitions

The Bay Crane Companies – Absolute Strategic Fleet Update Auction stems from a series of recent acquisitions that left the company with surplus equipment. Bay Crane, ranked the third-largest crane rental company in North America, is marketing the excess inventory to keep its fleet aligned with growth plans rather than carrying idle assets.

Washington – September 23, 2026 -- George Guszcza, President and CEO of the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS), has been appointed to the National Construction Safety Team Advisory Committee (NCSTAC), a federal panel that guides the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on building failure investigations.

Committee advises NIST on probes into building failures causing mass casualties

NCSTAC operates under the National Construction Safety Team Act, which authorizes NIST to investigate building failures that result in substantial loss of life or pose significant public safety threats. Findings from these investigations feed into recommendations affecting national building codes, construction standards, and safety practices.

Gaithersburg, Md. – September 23, 2026 -- DRB Group will launch two mortgage joint ventures in January 2027, pairing its DRB Homes and DRB Elevate 55+ brands with regional lending partners Acrisure Mortgage and Alta Home Lending.

DRB Group splits U.S. mortgage strategy into east-west joint ventures

The homebuilder will operate DRB Mortgage with Acrisure Mortgage across its eastern markets, while DRB Home Loans will serve western buyers through Alta Home Lending. Both platforms are scheduled to go live in January 2027, aligning financing with DRB's national homebuilding footprint.

Atlanta – – September 23, 2026 -- BlueCollar Cloud has secured a platinum sponsorship of SuiteWorld 2026, Oracle NetSuite's flagship user conference set for October 25-28 at Caesars Forum in Las Vegas.

BlueCollar Cloud will staff Booth 637 to pitch construction-specific ERP add-ons to NetSuite users

The company will meet contractors, project-based businesses, and NetSuite partners at the booth to demonstrate BlueCollar Projects, its NetSuite-native construction management and accounting layer. Discussions will target job costing, AIA-style billing, retainage, WIP reporting, cost codes, change orders, subcontracts, and project budgets -- functions BlueCollar Cloud says remain spreadsheet-heavy and manual for many contractors operating on NetSuite.

Washington, D.C. – – September 22, 2026 -- The National Trust for Historic Preservation awarded eight recipients its 2026 National Preservation Awards before more than 500 industry leaders gathered in Washington, D.C., marking the organization's first National Preservation Summit.

San Diego completes seven-year renovation of 315,000-square-foot Depression-era civic landmark

The County of San Diego received a Richard H. Driehaus Foundation National Preservation Award for rehabilitating its County Administration Center, a building dedicated in 1938 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt's federal public works program. The project spanned more than twenty phases of fully occupied renovation to address seismic limitations and aging systems without demolition.