For more than 140 years, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Galveston District has tackled massive projects to provide safety and stability along a coastline stretching from Louisiana to Mexico. <
Year in and year out, the ENR Texas & Louisiana region—which also includes Arkansas, Mississippi and Oklahoma—has consistently proven to be one of the more robust areas for construction in the U.S.
While record snows have covered the campus of Utah State University this winter, planners at Utah’s fourth-largest university have been anything but hibernating.
Construction firms in the mountain states are plenty busy. A surge of people moving to the region—especially Colorado, Utah and Idaho—has created a “solid funnel of multifamily housing projects,” says Jeff Palmer, executive vice president at Layton Construction.
The groundbreaking of three megaprojects in the Empire State in 2022 has given a big boost to the value of new construction contracts in the New York and New Jersey region—especially when compared with totals during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown years.