Funding & Grants
FRA awards $1.24B to remove rail crossings
91 grants in 37 states, led by $72M for a Kansas City grade separation. A day earlier, USDOT put $1.01B into 297 road safety projects.
Read the full story →Contracts & Groundbreakings
Skanska-Stacy Witbeck break ground on LA light rail
Work has started on the JV's $2.43B East San Fernando Valley job for LA Metro: 6.7 miles, 11 stations and a 26-acre yard. Completion is targeted for early 2032.
Read the full story →Jacobs-PCL picked for $1B San Francisco plant job
The SFPUC chose the JV as progressive design-build contractor to add nutrient removal at its Southeast plant, which treats nearly 80% of the city's wastewater.
Read the full story →Earnings & Capital
Granite grows revenue 23% to $1.77B
CAP hit a record $7.5B and 2026 revenue guidance rose to $5.4B to $5.5B. Granite hopes to close three more deals worth $750M by year end.
Read the full story →Bedrock Robotics raises $600M
The autonomous excavator maker is now valued at $4.1B. Customers include Haydon, Wagner Construction, Clarkson Construction and C.W. Matthews.
Read the full story →Talent Insight
The hard seats are the specialist ones
- Grade separations need people who know railroad coordination and track-protection rules. That pool is smaller than the general bridge PM market.
- Live-site jobs reward commissioning managers, shutdown planners and MOT specialists. They are often the hardest seats to fill on a big project.
- Worth watching: As autonomous earthmoving moves onto paying jobs, supers and estimators who can plan and price around it will be worth more.
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