Private construction spending in early 2026 presents a mixed but cautiously optimistic outlook, with emerging opportunities for plastics manufacturers in high-tech applications like data centers and ...

Construction Safety Week 2026 to Focus on Industrywide Collaboration and Culture Construction Safety Week returns May 4–8, 2026, with the theme “All In Together,” emphasizing unity, trust, and shared ...

As contech firms offer their services to contractors, building experts say technologies need innovation, a product-market fit ...

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The industry needs approximately 349,000 new workers in 2026 to balance supply and demand, primarily due to retirements and modest spending growth forecasts. Key challenges include an aging workforce, ...

A split view of the commercial market illustrates the divide: traditional building work has slowed or stalled in many regions, while power-intensive data center infrastructure continues to expand, ...

Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS) Chief Economist Perc Pineda, PhD, has released an economic analysis examining recent US GDP data and its implications for construction activity and plastics ...

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An unfinished commercial structure reflects the broader slowdown in traditional private development, even as industrial and data center work continues to drive most of the sector’s remaining strength, ...

More than one in five U.S. construction workers is over the age of 55. And when they retire—often without passing on what they’ve learned—they take with them decades of field-tested knowledge that can ...