Joe Bousquin

New York, Sacramento, United States

Freelance Editor and Writer at Freelance

Senior Reporter at Construction Dive

Writer, Editor, Content Producer and MDU Tech Geek. I cover multifamily, construction, development and technology. Also, a budding screenwriter.

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With DEI under fire, Construction Inclusion Week will focus on recruitment

4 days ago | constructiondive.com | Joe Bousquin

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Through its first five months, 2025 has not been kind to diversity, equity and inclusion. On his first day in office, President Donald Trump issued an executive order targeting “wasteful government DEI programs” in which his administration characterized government DEI practices as “illegal.” The next day, Trump ordered government agencies to target DEI programs in the private sector as well.
DOT agrees to remove race, gender-based criteria from DBE program

5 days ago | constructiondive.com | Joe Bousquin

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The DOT has agreed to settle a case challenging the constitutionality of its Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program, effectively barring women- and minority-owned companies from automatic inclusion in the initiative.
AdventHealth taps Brasfield & Gorrie for $660M medical tower

1 week ago | constructiondive.com | Joe Bousquin

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Award: Hospital towerValue: $660 millionLocation: Orlando, FloridaClient: AdventHealth OrlandoAdventHealth Orlando has tapped Birmingham, Alabama-based contractor Brasfield & Gorrie to build a 14-story medical tower as the centerpiece of a $1 billion investment from the health system, according to a May 14 news release. The tower comes with a $660 million price tag, according to Health News Florida.
Granite COO Jim Radich to retire

2 weeks ago | constructiondive.com | Joe Bousquin

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Granite Construction Chief Operating Officer Jim Radich will retire on July 4 after 45 years at the Watsonville, California-based contractor, the firm announced May 16. Granite said it won’t fill Radich’s role once he leaves. Instead, it has created an Operations Executive Team where senior vice presidents of its construction and materials divisions will report directly to President and CEO Kyle Larkin.
Public builders flag initial tariff impacts

3 weeks ago | constructiondive.com | Joe Bousquin |Jennifer Goodman |Julie Strupp |Zachary Phillips

In the first earnings season for public construction companies since President Donald Trump announced blanket tariffs for most countries on April 2, C-suite executives mostly downplayed the impacts of that policy shift. Leaders at Irving, Texas-based Fluor, for instance, told investors that most of their customers were forging ahead with plans in spite of broader uncertainty.
Tutor Perini turns a profit on growing backlog

3 weeks ago | finance.yahoo.com | Joe Bousquin

This story was originally published on Construction Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Construction Dive newsletter. Tutor Perini, the Los Angeles-based heavy civil construction company, is finally making money doing construction again. After several quarters of disappointing results plagued by payouts for legal disputes on legacy projects, the company reported it is collecting cash and profits from newer, ongoing jobs while building up a massive backlog.
Data centers, but little else, prop up construction planning

3 weeks ago | constructiondive.com | Joe Bousquin

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Plans for data centers, construction’s hottest sector, continued to fly off drafting tables in April, while owners in other market segments mostly sat still, according to Dodge Construction Network. The Dodge Momentum Index grew 0.9% in April, almost exclusively on the back of data center ramp-ups. Without those projects moving forward, the DMI would have dropped 3%, while commercial planning would have fallen 2.3%.
Tutor Perini turns a profit on growing backlog

3 weeks ago | constructiondive.com | Joe Bousquin

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Tutor Perini, the Los Angeles-based heavy civil construction company, is finally making money doing construction again. After several quarters of disappointing results plagued by payouts for legal disputes on legacy projects, the company reported it is collecting cash and profits from newer, ongoing jobs while building up a massive backlog. First-quarter net income was $28 million, up 77% from a year earlier.
Granite JV plays it safe at Sacramento’s American River Bridge rehab

1 month ago | constructiondive.com | Joe Bousquin

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. American River Constructors, a joint venture of Granite Construction and Pleasanton-based California Engineering Contractors, has played it safe at the $131 million American River Bridge project in Sacramento, California. As the job has progressed over the last three years, workers have taken a 20/20/20 approach, pausing their work every 20 minutes to perform a 20-second scan of the area 20 feet around them.
Granite shrugs off tariff impacts, hints at new IIJA

1 month ago | constructiondive.com | Joe Bousquin

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Granite Construction paved its way to increased revenue and backlog in the first quarter of 2025, even as its net loss widened from a year ago and tariff worries cropped up on its radar. The Watsonville, California-based contractor, which has a strong focus on roadbuilding and aggregate production and sales, said it hasn’t been significantly negatively impacted by the Trump administration’s tariffs to date.