Tag: Hit
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How California’s Refinery Closures Hit Asphalt Contractors
California is on track to lose another major refinery just months after Phillips 66 fully shuttered its Los Angeles-area operations at the end of 2025. Valero’s Benicia plant is now set to end refining by April 2026. Together those two closures wipe out roughly 309,000 barrels per day of capacity, about 18% of the state’s…
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Has your construction firm hit a revenue ceiling? You might be the problem.
Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Jerry Aliberti is principal of Thornwood, New York-based Pro-Accel, a construction consultancy focused on accelerating business growth. Opinions are the author’s own. You started your construction company because you love building things. You were good at it.…
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Has your construction firm hit a revenue ceiling? You might be the problem.
Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Jerry Aliberti is principal of Thornwood, New York-based Pro-Accel, a construction consultancy focused on accelerating business growth. Opinions are the author’s own. You started your construction company because you love building things. You were good at it.…
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Five ways the Autumn Budget will hit homeowners
The Autumn Budget has introduced a series of measures that could make homeownership more expensive and complex. Housing expert Michael Holmes warns that these changes are likely to influence both homeowners’ renovation decisions and long-term property plans. He says the new taxes and levies could have significant knock-on effects for the wider housing market and…
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Solar panels hit all-time record in 2025 in UK
The UK has just hit its highest level of rooftop solar panel installations ever recorded, making 2025 a landmark year for home energy. New data from MCS shows that solar has already passed the previous peak set back in 2011, with households and new-build developers installing panels at record speed. Falling upfront costs, changing building…
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DOTs hit pause on DBE goals to recertify firms
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: The Department of Transportation’s new interim final rule for its Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program has spurred state DOTs to pause workforce contracting goals as they review certification status of approximately 41,000 firms nationally, lawyers say. …
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Layoffs hit Barton Malow’s $3B GM, Samsung battery plant project
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Steel frames are taking shape on the General Motors and Samsung SDI plant in New Carlisle, Indiana, but activity has quieted on the multibillion-dollar battery cell plant as construction enters a slower phase. Barton Malow, the general…
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Two charged after strikers hit by vehicle at Sellafield
Two men have been charged after a vehicle was driven into striking workers on a picket line outside the Sellafield nuclear site on Wednesday morning (17 September). One of those hit by the vehicle, a man aged 55, was taken to the West Cumberland Hospital with serious injuries before being transferred to the Cumberland Infirmary.…
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California developers hit pause on projects due to high costs
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: More than a third of California developers have delayed or canceled commercial real estate projects due to rising costs and tariff uncertainty, according to a summer 2025 Allen Matkins and UCLA report. Industrial and multifamily…
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Recycled Construction Materials Market to Hit $134.7B
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Market Summary: According to our latest Researchintelo, the global market size for recycled construction materials reached USD 74.3 billion in 2024, highlighting its robust position within the sustainable building sector. The market is currently experiencing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.8%, driven by increasing environmental regulations, urbanization, and the demand for cost-effective construction…