The 58,000-sq-ft PAE Living Building in Portland, Ore., is the first privately developed speculative office building fully certified under the rigorous Living Building Challenge of the International Living Future Institute, and one of only 35 fully certified Living Buildings in the world.
At a 1,000-acre site in Ohio, Intel Corp. (No. 1) is building a pair of semiconductor fabrication plants, or fabs, that promise to be part of an influx of new domestic production of leading-edge chips.
Construction-in-progress spending climbs higher, with Top 25 firms accounting for 60%, as economists predict a megaproject boom will compound resource challenges.