Multifamily housing starts rose in March, but permits fell

New multifamily construction rose in March on a monthly and yearly basis, according to HUD and the U.S. Census Bureau’s latest residential construction report released Wednesday.  The seasonally adjusted March rate for construction of units in buildings with five units or more was 446,000, representing a 13.5% year over year increase and a 9.6% uptick […]

Punch List: McCarthy tops out laser facility, Miami firm names first new CEO in 58 years

Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Construction Dive’s Friday Punch List is a series dedicated to sharing major building headlines that contractors may have missed from the week. This week in construction news, Kiewit was “off-ramped” from Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge rebuild […]

AI Agents and the Future of Construction Sales

Paul Indinger didn’t set out to build a construction sales intelligence platform. He started by paying students in China €3.50 each to research architecture firm project pages. That experiment, born out of a student job for a carpet manufacturer, eventually became Building Radar, a platform now used by companies like Schindler Elevators, Heidelberg Materials, and […]