Portions of the Grand Parkway through Galveston County are scheduled to begin in slightly more than three years, as state highway officials cue up construction for Houston's third outer ring. Texas Department of Transportation officials said work on segments of Interstate 45 in League City to south of Alvin is planned for late 2026 or early 2027, entirely funded by borrowing against future ... Read More

Aug. 13—Engineers in San Antonio are quietly mixing and curing test batches of a new cement they say could transform an industry that — while being a literal building block of society — emits massive amounts of greenhouse gasses. Solidia Technologies, previously a New Jersey-based startup, moved its headquarters to Eisenhauer Road, and its first plant is under construction in Alamo Junction. ... Read More

Aug. 11—WASHINGTON — A carbon removal project south of Corpus Christie is one of two sites selected by the Department of Energy to receive up to $1.2 billion to support the development of direct air capture technology. The project, which is being developed by Houston-based oil company Occidental Pteroleum, is set on more than 100,000 acres on the famed King Ranch in South Texas and is designed ... Read More

Portions of the Grand Parkway through Galveston County are scheduled to begin in slightly more than three years, as state highway officials cue up construction for Houston's third outer ring. Texas Department of Transportation officials said work on segments of Interstate 45 in League City to south of Alvin is planned for late 2026 or early 2027, entirely funded by borrowing against future ... Read More

Aug. 7—Trinity University has sued a well-known San Antonio builder over alleged "construction defects" at the CityVista apartment complex on East Hildebrand Avenue. The school alleges that Winter Storm Uri in 2021 exposed defective construction at CityVista, a 141-unit apartment complex that was built by KM Construction Ltd. — formerly Koontz McCombs Construction Ltd. Trinity is suing KM ... Read More

Drilling will begin this month in Lake Maurepas to conduct geological tests for the site where millions of tons of carbon produced by a proposed hydrogen manufacturing complex would be stored deep underground. Meanwhile, local residents and government leaders continue to protest the project, fearing it could damage the environment and harm local residents' livelihoods. Air Products, a global ... Read More

Aug. 1—In the fast-growing San Antonio area, construction of office buildings and retail centers has slowed amid higher interest rates, inflation and concerns about a potential recession while construction of infrastructure and industrial facilities is flourishing. Some of the supply chain snarls during the pandemic have been smoothed out, but rising materials costs and difficulty finding ... Read More

Aug. 1—As Houston angles to become the next big biomedical powerhouse, Houston real estate developer McCord Development is aiming to tap into some of the region's life sciences growth with a 45-acre biomanufacturing hub northeast of downtown. The 500,000-square-foot project dubbed BioHub Two is proposed near where San Jacinto College is planning a biomedical training program within Generation ... Read More

Developers are targeting an early 2024 start for two more downtown Dallas towers. Pacific Elm Properties and Kaizen Development Partners have been working on the $1 billion Field Street District project since ­­2019. The proposed six-acre development is on the north edge of downtown at Woodall Rodgers Freeway and Field Street. It’s planned for a huge vacant block just across the freeway from ... Read More

Minority- and women-owned businesses received one quarter of the $377 million Harris County awarded to contractors in a recent six-month period, according to a new report from the county's Department of Economic Equity and Opportunity. The figure represents a 32 percent increase over the previous period, indicating that the county's push to do business with more minority- and women-owned ... Read More