The Fastest Growing Construction Category Is Dirt Work
10/06/2026
The fastest growing construction category in the country is up 29.6 percent, and it is almost entirely dirt and rock.
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The fastest growing construction category in the country is up 29.6 percent, and it is almost entirely dirt and rock.
Texas added 17,400 construction jobs and grew 1.9 percent. The work is growing faster than the workforce.
The largest school bond in Texas history named its program manager, which means the procurement clock started.
Construction starts fell in every region of the country last month except the one Texas sits in.
Two weeks ago we wrote that federal surface transportation authorization expired September 30 and told contractors to ask one question about every job in
In August we wrote that Texas had paused new data center grid interconnections, and we told contractors to treat an announced data center as
The Texas Water Development Board just approved more than $1.18 billion for water and wastewater projects, and the single largest award covers ten North
Diesel did not drift up this month. It jumped. The national on-highway average rose 36.8 cents in a single week to $5.967 a gallon,
Texas just landed the largest rail grade separation award in the country. TxDOT will receive more than $756 million in federal grant funding to
Total construction spending in the United States is running 3.8 percent below where it was a year ago. If you read only that number
If any part of your backlog is federal-aid work, September 30 belongs on your wall. The surface transportation programs authorized under the Infrastructure Investment
Texas just committed to a decade of roadwork. The Texas Transportation Commission approved TxDOT’s 2027 Unified Transportation Program, a $138 billion plan for highway
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