Jeff Yoders

3 weeks ago | enr.com | Jeff Yoders

During the American Institute of Architects’ 2025 Conference held in Boston June 3, Autodesk released ArcGIS for Forma, a public beta for a cloud-based connection that links up Esri’s ArcGIS and Autodesk’s Forma design environment. “What customers are able to do with this update is incorporate a wide array of contextual geographic data from ArcGIS, which includes buildings, zoning, roads, boundaries, imagery, a huge amount of data,” said Carl Christiansen, vice president of product at Autodesk.

3 weeks ago | enr.com | Jeff Yoders

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested more than 100 people illegally in the U.S. during a joint agency, targeted enforcement operation at two construction sites in Tallahassee, Fla., May 29. The site where the bulk of the arrests took place was the 359,900-sq-ft Perla Student Housing project being developed by Zimmerman near Florida State University and being built by general contractor Hedrick Brothers of Palm Beach.

3 weeks ago | enr.com | Jeff Yoders

President Donald Trump said May 29 that U.S. Steel will keep its headquarters in Pittsburgh as part of what he, in early May, called a "planned partnership" between U.S. Steel and Japan-based Nippon Steel, which would acquire the steelmaker in a $15-billion revised deal that Trump, himself, had previously opposed before signing off on changes to the outright purchase both companies had pursued for the last year.

4 weeks ago | enr.com | Jeff Yoders

Investment in construction tech startups continues to set records, with a pace that, nearly halfway into 2025, indicates  the sector is a strong attraction.. Leading the list of the latest big investments is Tel Aviv-based Buildots, an artificial intelligence-powered construction management platform that announced May 29 a $45-million funding round led by Qumra Capital with participation from OG Venture Partners, TLV Partners, Poalim Equity, Future Energy Ventures and Viola Growth.

1 month ago | enr.com | Jeff Yoders

Microsoft Corp. has agreed to purchase up to 622,500 tons of low-carbon cementitious materials from Sublime Systems' first commercial factory in Holyoke, Mass., as well as the full-scale factory it plans to develop in the next six to nine years. The tech giant will use low-carbon Sublime Cement to reduce the company's carbon footprint across its planned portfolio of projects including data centers over the next two decades.