JE Dunn was tapped for a $480 million upgrade at Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport, a reminder that airport capital work is accelerating nationally even as NYC's own airport jobs (Westchester County Airport's Building 1 rehab closes today) stay comparatively modest in scale. constructiondive.com

A Skanska-Stacy Witbeck joint venture broke ground on a $2.43 billion light rail extension in the San Fernando Valley, the kind of transit mega-project the MTA's own nine-figure drainage and station jobs on this board sit next to in scale nationally. constructiondive.com

PCL delivered a $250 million Amtrak maintenance facility in Seattle on time and under budget, a data point worth filing against the MTA's own cost-control struggles flagged by the state comptroller this week. constructiondive.com