by Alex Carrick

Compared with the earlier April version of ConstuctConnect’s put-in-place (PIP) investment outlook, grand total construction spending has been modified as follows: for 2016, from +9.0% to +5.9% (down); for 2017, from +8.5% to +6.9% (down);

Dark times for SolarCity could leave New York out in the cold

What happens if shareholders of Tesla balk at bailing out the company that Cuomo and Buffalo are counting on?

By Paul Alexander

New York government officials are gambling Buffalo’s long-hoped-for economic recovery on SolarCity,

Construction contractor groups blast rule but organized labor praises it

Pam Hunter McFarland

Federal agencies have released a final rule and a guidance document that require firms bidding on federal projects to disclose more information about their track record in complying with workplace safety,

By Jimmy Vielkind

ALBANY – Without fanfare, the state Department of Transportation has posted details of a five-year capital plan for roads and bridges, detailing hundreds of projects around the state that are slated for work in coming years.

By Emily Peiffer

Dive Brief:

• Housing starts slipped 0.3% in May to a 1.164 million annualized rate, down slightly from the revised 1.167 million rate in April, the Commerce Department reported Friday.

By Gloria Gonzalez

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has started the process for a potential — and some argue long overdue — Noise in Construction standard.

The potential standard was included on OSHA’s regulatory agenda published last month,

DEMAND REMAINS STRONG FOR MOST PROJECT CATEGORIES

Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine, Calif. and Monroe, Mich. Top Growth List While Midland, Texas and Bloomington, Ill. Have Largest Declines; Worker Shortages May be Limiting Gains in Some Areas

Construction employment rose between April 2015 and April 2016 in two-thirds of the nation’s metro areas,

By Sarah Trefethen and Danielle Furfaro

Contractors will begin tearing down parts of the main La Guardia airport terminal next week in the first physical move toward the $4 billion rebuild.

The plan is to tear down a few gates at a time until the whole main Terminal B is rebuilt.

by DCN News Services

ARLINGTON, VA.—Construction employment rose between April 2015 and April 2016 in two-thirds of the metropolitan areas in the U.S., a report issued June 1 by the Associated General Contractors of America indicates.

Spending on most types of structures increased for the year despite a drop in the latest month,

By Kim Slowey

Dive Brief:

• A New York City Building Congress analysis of 2015 city construction data found that $39 billion of construction activity generated an additional $22 billion in spending and output, resulting in $61 billion of total economic benefit for the city and representing a 7% increase from 2014’s $57 billion.

Vice president Joe Biden returned to La Guardia Airport — which he once said reminded him of a “third-world country” — on Tuesday to help break ground on the new main terminal.

“The greatest city in the world needs and deserves the greatest infrastructure,” said Biden.

Grants Will Rehabilitate 3 Railroad Bridges and More Than 52 Miles ofRail Track and Facilities

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced $16.3 million to fund rail and port improvement projects across New York State. These grants, from the Governor’s Passenger and Freight Rail Assistance Program,

And then there were three: Skanska, Lend Lease and Gilbane to compete for Javits redevelopment

The companies were finalists in competitions for RFPs

By Kathryn Brenzel

State officials have selected the three construction teams that can compete for a chance to redevelop the Jacob K.

Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz Contact Reporter Chicago Tribune

Cranes have sprouted in Chicago as surely as tulips, but a busy construction season is coming with concerns that there aren’t enough skilled workers to do all the building.

by Jeff Shaw in New York, Northeast, Office, Top Stories

NEW YORK CITY — SL Green Realty Corp. has chosen AECOM’s Tishman Construction unit to manage the construction of One Vanderbilt,

Matt Coyne and Mark Lungariello, mlungariel@lohud.com 7:15 p.m. EDT July 12, 2016

Legislator Shimsky: “We’re talking about the largest piece of county-owned property. We’re talking about a 99-year lease”

WHITE PLAINS — Westchester County is going to put a little more time into its review of plans for a $1.2 billion biotech center in Valhalla,

The developer, which has partnered with investment firm Qatari Diar, received a construction loan from Bank of the Ozarks. WeWork will anchor the development

By Daniel Geiger

A pair of new office towers will rise in Long Island City.

Memorial Bridge, ports among projects slated to get transportation grants

By Melanie Zanona

The Department of Transportation (DOT) has selected over a dozen transportation projects to receive funding from a newly created competitive grant program, quickly drawing the praise of lawmakers who represent districts or states that will benefit from the fresh injection of infrastructure cash.

Under the proposal, the Queens venue, Resorts World Casino, would get a hotel, spa and resort and convention center

By Amanda Fung

The Resorts World Casino in Queens may get bigger.

The owner of Resorts World Casino,

NEW YORK | By Herbert Lash and Edward Krudy

Global stock markets lost about $2 trillion in value on Friday after Britain voted to leave the European Union, while sterling suffered a record one-day plunge to a 31-year low and money poured into safe-haven gold and government bonds.