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By Anne Cosgrove From the May/June 2025 Issue T rade movement across the U.S.-Mexico border remains a cornerstone of North American commerce, though it faces mounting challenges stemming from shifting trade policies, infrastructure constraints, and geopolitical tensions. Despite these headwinds, the bilateral trade relationship continues to thrive, underpinned by deep manufacturing integration and strategic nearshoring trends.

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The nine-story structure in Orange, California, includes five floors of specialty clinics, oncology infusion services and a research institute for clinical trials and pediatric research.

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JUNE 18, 2025

The Government has revealed HS2 chief executive Mark Wild’s reset plan to rescue the troubled rail megaproject. In a blunt letter to transport secretary Heidi Alexander, Wild said a “comprehensive reset” was now essential to deliver the railway on a credible timescale and within a realistic budget. The letter sent at the end of March but published for the first time yesterday, reveals that just one-third of the civils work is complete, compared with the 75% planned by now.

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JUNE 18, 2025

ENR’s Construction Industry Confidence Index fell 14 points between Q1 and Q2, to a rating of 47. That is the third largest drop in the history of the index, only surpassed by the falls in Q2 2020 and Q2 2022.

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Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander has promised a fundamental one-year reset for HS2 after admitting to Parliament that there was no way presently to deliver the project on schedule and to budget. She slammed a litany of failures for wasting billions on the project, blaming bad management, constant changes and ineffective contracts with the supply chain.

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JUNE 18, 2025

Former Willmott Dixon deputy managing director for the Midlands Nick Gibb has joined Dudley based national contractor BSN Group as co-owner. Gibb will lead the next phase of BSN’s growth strategy with the £50m turnover business looking to double in size over the next three years with its value-for-money offering. He said: “With the heavy cost burden imposed by the major contractors on clients budgets that are already under pressure, a lean and efficient construction model is being welcomed

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JUNE 18, 2025

Sandy Lawrence used rammed earth to form the walls of a home on the side of a rocky hill overlooking Napa Valley in California. Three caves on Lawrence’s property provided some of the materials. The house was designed by San Francisco-based architect Michael Baushke and built by late Napa-based architect David Easton, who was a leading expert in the modern-day rammed earth method.

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JUNE 18, 2025

The House of Lords has launched an inquiry into complaints about construction delays caused by the Building Safety Regulator (BSR). Contractors have been up-in-arms for months over backlogs in the approval process for new high rise building projects. The House of Lords Industry and Regulators Committee has issued a call for evidence with the first hearing due next week.

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JUNE 18, 2025

The design-build team of Stantec and PCL Construction says they can expand San Diego's South Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant to 50 million gallons per day.

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JUNE 18, 2025

Keltbray has secured a £30m working capital boost from Metro Bank to strengthen its balance sheet. The deal includes a £10m overdraft and a £20m revolving credit facility locked in for three years, giving the engineering and construction group extra headroom to support profitable growth. Executive chairman Brendan Kerr said Metro Bank had taken the time to understand the business and was backing its plans to grow into more resilient markets.

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JUNE 18, 2025

ENR’s Construction Industry Confidence Index fell 14 points between Q1 and Q2, to a rating of 47. That marks the third largest drop in the history of the index.

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JUNE 18, 2025

Uncertainty has plagued the overall economy in the first half of 2025, with U.S. construction industry activity slowing considerably, according to data from Dodge Construction Network.

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JUNE 18, 2025

A construction director who failed to explain transfers totalling almost £500,000 out of his company’s bank account has been handed a suspended sentence. Mario Huiu’s failure to keep proper accounting records for Incentive Services Limited meant liquidators were also unable to verify cash receipts of more than £200,000 into the same bank account. The 39-year-old, of Ilford, was prosecuted for offences under the Companies Act 2006 and Insolvency Act 1986.

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JUNE 18, 2025

The hot pace of construction staff compensation is cooling. Following years of historically high salary increases, employers are reigning in pay for construction staff.

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Business Facilities

JUNE 18, 2025

Medallia, Inc. , a global customer and employee experience management company, is investing $2 million to expand its operations in the Tysons area of Fairfax County , Virginia. Medallia provides AI-powered software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions to help organizations gather, analyze, and act on feedback from customers and employees in real time.The project will create 100 jobs.

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JUNE 18, 2025

The hot pace of construction staff compensation is cooling. Following years of historically high salary increases, employers are reigning in pay for construction staff.

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JUNE 18, 2025

“You need to finish.” That was michael williams’ parting message to his friends and team building the new Salt Lake City International Airport, including Brian Stetson and Kevin Fauvell. Even from the hospital, where he died in may, he focused on the job.

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JUNE 18, 2025

The first few months of this year saw some uncertainty in equipment pricing, but even with the unclear tariff situation the used equipment market has seen prices stabilizing, according to the latest data from industry analyst firm EquipmentWatch.

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JUNE 18, 2025

President Donald Trump's June 13 executive order cleared the $14.9B acquisition of U.S. Steel Corp. by Tokyo-based Nippon Steel.

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JUNE 18, 2025

Revenue for this year’s Top 100 Professional Services Firms reveal nuanced shifts in an increasingly complex market roiled by uncertainty and rising risks.

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JUNE 18, 2025

Meeting the challenge of growing facility demand with public funds threatened and the persistent problem of PFAS contamination were key focuses of the American Water Works Association annual meeting.

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