Notes from the Field
Market updates, material availability, and Texas construction intel. Published weekly for contractors.
Aligned Data Centers broke ground on Project Caprock in Hale County on April 9, a 313-acre, 540MW campus expected to put $5 billion into the regional economy. Site prep for a project this size moves significant aggregate through a market where trucking networks are thinner than DFW or Austin.
The EIA’s May Short-Term Energy Outlook revised its diesel price forecast today, pushing the easing timeline from Q2 to late 2026. Contractors who built Q3 delivery budgets on the April projection are working from a number that has been superseded.
William Rocha of F.H. Paschen published in Construction Dive this week that Texas’ $200 billion infrastructure push is creating execution risk as compressed schedules, labor shortages, and supply chain uncertainty stack up on the same jobs.
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Market updates, material availability, and Texas construction intel. Published weekly for contractors.
