Dodge offers data on projected 2024 construction starts in the Des Moines area.

A tornado unleashing 100-mph winds toppled five turbines at two different wind farms. 

In June 2008, a devastating flood swept through Iowa, severely damaging multiple buildings on the University of Iowa campus, including its art museum.

Construction broke ground in October on a $445-million terminal expansion at Des Moines International Airport in Iowa.

The Best Projects and award of merit honorees were chosen from 64 submittals.

Built as part of the $1.5-billion Council Bluffs Interstate System Improvement Program, the project team delivered the area’s first dual, divided freeway.<

Envisioned as the centerpiece of a new multiuse town center, the new city hall for the city of Johnston, Iowa, brings civic, retail, hospitality, office and entertainment opportunities to the area.

In Iowa, CM at-risk would be allowed on all vertical construction but universities could not use DB project delivery, under state legislation passed by both houses.

Still hampered by pandemic-related uncertainly, Midwest construction starts fell in 2021 even as signs of a return to normalcy bolstered markets near the end of the year.