After two-years of building up its user base in the lower Midwest, peer-to-peer construction-equipment rental service EquipmentShare recently has secured $26 million in private equity funding.

January 9.4% rate up from year-earlier 8.5%, first year-over-year increase in more than six years.

Regulation, also put on hold by federal court, would require firms to disclose past labor-law violations to qualify for federal contracts

Construction spending in the U.S. fell by 0.2% in December, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1.18 billion, according to the U.S. Dept. of Commerce’s Census Bureau.