Construction, Real Estate & Infrastructure

Miami – October 17, 2026 -- Miami-Dade County recorded 24 single-family and condominium sales of $30 million or more through September 2026, beating the full-year 2025 record of 21 transactions by 14.3%, according to MIAMI REALTORS® + RWorld. At the current pace, the county is on track for 32 such sales by year-end.

Mortgage rates at 7.46% pull September home sales down 2%

Total Miami-Dade home sales fell 2% year-over-year in September to 1,733 from 1,769. Single-family transactions dropped 4.7%, from 865 to 824, while condo sales edged up 1% from 904 to 909.

Towson, Md. – October 16, 2026 -- DEWALT's DALE drilling robot has cut project timelines by more than 300 weeks across 44 data center construction phases, and TIME has named it to its Best Inventions of 2026 list in the Robotics category.

DALE, an autonomous downward drilling robot, was developed by DEWALT, a Stanley Black & Decker brand, in collaboration with mobile robotics company August Robotics. TIME editors and correspondents selected 300 winning innovations based on originality, efficacy, ambition, and impact.

DALE drills up to 10 times faster than conventional methods on live jobsites

On live data center jobsites, DALE has reached drilling speeds up to 10 times faster than conventional methods. The robot has drilled more than 385,000 holes with over 99% accuracy.

Santa Clara, Calif. – October 16, 2026 -- DPR Construction moved up one place to No. 3 on Engineering News-Record's 2026 Top Green Contractors list, from No. 4 in 2025, as green contracting revenue across the sector's top 100 firms rose 5.9% to $101.9 billion in 2025.

ENR ranks contractors by revenue from certified green projects

ENR's annual list ranks firms on revenue from construction services for projects registered with or certified by third-party organizations. Those organizations set standards for environmental impact, energy efficiency or carbon footprint.

DPR's water strategies saved more than 48 million gallons in 2025

According to DPR's 2025 Global Social Responsibility Annual Report, water strategies on major projects saved more than 48 million gallons of freshwater in 2025 alone. The report also details expanded use of lower-carbon concrete, cleaner equipment and lower-emission fuels.

Orlando – October 16, 2026 -- Florida's existing single-family home sales fell 3.5% year-over-year in September to 20,537 closings, the second straight month of annual declines, as higher mortgage rates halted the modest growth of the past 12 to 14 months, according to Florida Realtors.

Third-quarter sales hold flat for houses and rise for condos

Statewide existing single-family sales totaled 65,904 in the third quarter of 2026, up 0.2% from the same period a year earlier. Existing condo-townhouse sales reached 22,664, up 3.1%.

September condo-townhouse closings totaled 7,179, about level with September 2025 (-0.1%). Closed sales can occur 30 to 90-plus days after contracts are written, so the figures lag buyer activity.

Atlanta – October 16, 2026 -- White Cap and DEWALT will present a combined $175,000 donation to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital on Sunday, October 18, at Phoenix Raceway, marking the fourth year of their joint partnership.

DEWALT adds $25,000 through October in-branch product sales

DEWALT will contribute an additional $25,000 through purchases of select DEWALT products at participating White Cap branches throughout October. The retail-linked mechanism ties charitable output directly to distributor sales volume during the campaign month.

New York – October 16, 2026 -- The NHP Foundation (NHPF) has created a new Vice President of Fundraising and Communications position and filled it with Megan Carras, who raised more than $25 million in revenue at her previous employer, the Washington Area Community Investment Fund (WACIF).

Carras joins NHPF's New York office with more than a decade of experience in community development finance, nonprofit fundraising, communications and research. NHPF, a national not-for-profit developer of affordable housing, will rely on her to build funding partnerships and direct strategic communications.

Aurora, Ohio – October 16, 2026 -- RoviSys Building Technologies has promoted Devin Worley, Will Hughes and Chris Smaldino to Regional Director, as the company responds to expanding demand for building automation, mission critical infrastructure and data center solutions.

The company said the appointments are meant to strengthen its regional presence and customer engagement. Two of the three have been with the company since 2013, and the third joined in 2015.

Worley built European team to more than 50 staff and opened Virginia operation

Worley joined RoviSys in 2015 as an engineer specializing in Building Management Systems and validated pharmaceutical process control systems. He relocated to Europe in 2017 to help establish the company's Nederland operation.

Orlando – October 16, 2026 -- A crystalline waterproofing admixture removed roughly 60 days of planned waterproofing work from the rehabilitation of the Dujmovača Tunnel in Split, Croatia, and cut water penetration depth by 83% after ten test cycles, according to Penetron Group.

Redesign followed material shortage and failed adhesion tests

The Dujmovača Tunnel (M604) is part of the Split suburban railway line and is one of two railway tunnels beneath the city center. The rehabilitation targeted waterproofing and drainage to control water ingress. The original design specified a dimpled membrane system to channel inflows through drains and half-pipes into a drainage channel.

Two problems forced a rethink. The specified composite drainage material was no longer available, and shotcrete adhesion tests returned values below the required threshold, said Theodor Mentzikofakis, Managing Director and Partner of Penetron Hellas.

Las Vegas – October 16, 2026 -- Lennar has broken ground on The Foundry, a gated community of more than 1,000 townhomes and single-family detached homes priced from the $300,000s on roughly 70 acres in downtown Las Vegas. Vertical construction is expected to begin in October 2027.

Lennar redevelops former Cashman Center and Grant Sawyer Building sites

The project spans approximately 70 acres across the former Grant Sawyer Building and Cashman Center sites near Las Vegas Boulevard and East Washington Avenue. It is being advanced through a public-private partnership among the City of Las Vegas, the State of Nevada and Lennar. The partners aim to convert underutilized downtown properties into housing for first-time buyers, young families and others seeking to own a home.

Little Rock – October 16, 2026 -- BSR Real Estate Investment Trust (NYSE: BSRT; TSX: BSRT.UN) declared a cash distribution of US$0.0467 per REIT unit for October 2026, equal to US$0.56 per unit on an annualized basis.

BSR REIT schedules November 16 payment to unitholders of record on October 30

The REIT will pay the distribution on October 16, 2026. Unitholders of record as at October 16, 2026 are eligible.

The trust is listed on both the New York Stock Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange. It is an internally managed, open-ended REIT established under the laws of the Province of Ontario. Its portfolio consists of multifamily garden-style residential properties in primary Sunbelt markets in the United States.