Martin Marietta agreed to a $13.5 billion combination with Lhoist North America, while Toyota announced a $3.6 billion San Antonio plant expansion. The Tampa Bay Rays began their search for a construction manager for their $2.3 billion stadium, and Amazon filed permits for a $1.2 billion Texas data center campus. EVelution Energy broke ground on a solar facility powering an Arizona cobalt plant, Digital Realty confirmed a $475 million Kansas land buy for a hyperscale campus, and Beck Technology launched a new AI-powered preconstruction platform. Let's dive in!

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Martin Marietta Materials has agreed to combine with Lhoist North America in a $13.5 billion transaction, creating the nation's leading lime and limestone producer.

The deal, announced June 29, 2026, is expected to close in the second half of 2026, pending regulatory approval.

Lhoist North America operates 20 quarries and production facilities plus 45 distribution terminals, generating $1.8 billion in gross sales and $786 million in Adjusted EBITDA for the twelve months ended December 31, 2025.

Its reserves exceed 2 billion tons of limestone, offering 200+ years of useful life across Sun Belt growth corridors.

Consideration includes $7.0 billion in cash and $6.5 billion in Martin Marietta stock. The Berghmans family, Lhoist's owners, will hold roughly 15% of Martin Marietta and gain one board seat plus an observer role.

Martin Marietta expects about $85 million in annual cost synergies and earnings accretion in the first full year post-close.

CEO Ward Nye called it a milestone advancing the company's strategy.


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Toyota Motor North America will invest $3.6 billion to expand its San Antonio manufacturing campus, adding a second vehicle assembly line for the Tacoma truck. The project will create 2,000 new jobs and add 2.5 million square feet, doubling the plant's size by 2030.

Tacoma production will shift from Toyota's Baja California plant to Texas over about four years. Once complete, Tundra, Sequoia, and Tacoma will all be built in San Antonio, alongside a new rear axle facility starting production this fall.

This brings Toyota's total San Antonio investment to $8.3 billion since 2003. The local workforce will grow to about 6,000 employees, supported by 23 on-site suppliers.

Officials including Governor Greg Abbott, Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, and San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones praised the move as proof of Texas's business-friendly climate.

Toyota also urged swift resolution of USMCA talks to boost North American manufacturing competitiveness.

The Tampa Bay Rays have begun searching for a construction manager for their $2.3 billion stadium, targeting an Aug. 14 announcement and immediate mobilization. The venue must be ready for occupation by Dec. 31, 2028, and fully complete by March 1, 2029. It anchors an $8 billion Tampa development, backed by $976 million in public financing still pending final approval.

Amazon Data Services filed permits for "Project Eagle," a $1.2 billion, four-building data center campus in Boling, Wharton County, Texas, southwest of Houston. Each building spans 189,060 sq ft, totaling roughly 756,240 sq ft across 2,700 acres. Construction starts Aug. 1, 2026, with Buildings A, C, and D completing January 2027, and Building B following in August 2027.

EVelution Energy has begun construction of a 28 MW solar facility in Yuma County, Arizona, to power America's first commercial-scale, solar-powered cobalt metal and cobalt sulfate processing plant. Built with 100% American-made steel, the $450 million facility is expected to reach commercial operation by end of 2029. It will supply roughly 40% of projected U.S. cobalt demand while generating $1.2 billion in annual economic activity, and creating over 6,200 jobs.

Digital Realty confirmed it acquired roughly 1,440 acres at Astra Enterprise Park in De Soto, Kansas, for about $475 million from Sunflower Redevelopment Group, in a deal that closed in April 2026. Phase one, Astra North, covers approximately 280 acres with up to nine buildings totaling 3 million square feet, plus an on-site substation. Power delivery starts at 600MW by early 2028, scaling to 2GW at full buildout.

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Camp Nou's construction began March 28, 1954, in Barcelona's Les Corts neighborhood.

Architects Francesc Mitjans and Josep Soteras, with Lorenzo García-Barbón, designed the bowl-shaped, three-tier structure.

Builder Ingar SA was contracted in 1955, and the stadium opened September 24, 1957, with a capacity of 93,053.

Ahead of the 1982 World Cup, a third tier was added, raising combined seated-and-standing capacity to 115,000.

New regulations in the late 1990s outlawed standing areas, converting the stadium to all-seated and reducing capacity to 99,354.

FC Barcelona then awarded the Espai Barça renovation to Turkish firm Limak, with construction starting June 2023, aiming to expand seating to roughly 105,000.

FC Barcelona returned to a partially reopened stadium on November 22, 2025, at 45,401 seats, rising to 62,657 by early 2026, with completion targeted for 2027.

Beck Technology has launched DESTINI Cloud, a cloud-native, AI-enabled preconstruction platform unifying estimating, takeoff, bidding, and analytics into a single connected environment.

Announced June 9, 2026, the company calls it the most significant product advancement in its 30-year history.

The platform covers the full preconstruction lifecycle, from; conceptual estimating through GMP, integrating 2D/3D takeoff, AI-assisted takeoff (via Beck's 2025 Workpack.ai acquisition), centralized drawing management, and bid management into one system, replacing fragmented tools and manual data transfers.

At its core is a scalable data model offering a RESTful API and a Microsoft Power BI semantic model, enabling real-time analytics including cost history, variance reporting, and win/loss analysis, with further AI-driven insights planned.

The platform is SOC 2 Type II certified, with enterprise access controls and SSO support, and integrates with tools like Autodesk, Procore, and Togal.

Beck Technology serves 87 of ENR's Top 400 contractors and is migrating its 300+ customers to the new platform.