Jeff Yoders

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Granite Construction has won a $70-million contract to build seven miles of new U.S.-Mexico border wall in Hidalgo County, Texas, awarded by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. It is the first new border contract awarded in President Donald Trump's second term. The work is being funded by money originally appropriated in fiscal year 2021, the agency said in a statement.

6 days ago | enr.com | Jeff Yoders

Volvo Construction Equipment unveiled its first all-electric articulated dump trucks, electrified versions of its A30 and A40 trucks, at the Bauma equipment exhibition in Munich, Germany, April 8. Case Construction Equipment and electrification supplier Moog also unveiled new electric equipment news at the conference. The A30 Electric articulated haul truck was revealed at Volvo's April 8 press conference, the world’s first serial-produced, battery-powered electric haul truck of its size.

1 week ago | enr.com | Jeff Yoders

At the opening keynote of the North American Steel Construction Conference April 2 in Louisville, Ky., the American Institute of Steel Construction introduced and announced "Clark,” an artificial intelligence-powered agent meant to assist engineers with code and best-practice questions. There were 2,200 "Ask AISC" inquiries last year from the institute's Steel Solutions Center on its website.

1 week ago | enr.com | Jeff Yoders

Motif, Inc., a startup from former Autodesk executives Amar Hanspal and Brian Mathews, launched its first product March 26, a cloud-based platform for real-time design and construction collaboration. The cloud platform integrates 2D and 3D workflows and addresses what Mathews called design review inefficiencies in collaboration tools available on the market today.

2 weeks ago | enr.com | Jeff Yoders

NewsConstruction technology Turning a photograph or a scan into a 3D model remains a cumbersome process involving several data processing steps. This is despite reality capture being easier than ever before, thanks to drone photographs and scans, with even robots such as Boston Dynamics’ Spot able to document sites autonomously and with reliable consistency. Autodesk’s ReCap Pro team aims to change that. A Revit plugin now comes with ReCap Pro 2026, released to subscribers on April 2.