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News Articles: construction

President Trump holds a rendering of the East Wing modernization while speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday.

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  • Politics

Trump's ballroom fight sheds new light on an underground White House bunker

The status of a decades-old bunker beneath the now-demolished East Wing is unclear, but the Trump administration has cited security concerns in its legal filings in favor of continuing construction.

April 03, 2026
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
The staff of Chicago Women in Trades lead a parade of female construction workers at the Tradeswomen Build Nations conference in Chicago on Sept. 20, 2025.

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  • Politics

How a small Chicago nonprofit is resisting Trump's war on DEI

Since 1981, Chicago Women in Trades has worked to promote equity by getting more women into the construction trades. Now the nonprofit faces a different challenge: Trump's efforts to erase DEI.

November 19, 2025
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
An aerial view of the Meta’s Stanton Springs Data Center on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025, in Newton County, Georgia.

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  • News

Jones County rescinds zoning ordinances around data centers due to legal issues

The Jones County Board of Commissioners rescinded a series of ordinances pertaining to data centers Tuesday night due to concerns that those laws may not have been passed legally.

November 06, 2025
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By:
  • Lucinda Warnke and
  • The Telegraph
A worker works on the roofing structure of new home under construction, Tuesday, July 15, 2025, in Richardson, Texas.

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  • Business

ICE is sending a chill through the construction industry

The construction industry, where more than a quarter of workers are foreign-born, has long struggled to find enough workers. Now, industry officials say Trump's immigration crackdown is making it worse.

November 06, 2025
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
An aerial view of Meta’s Stanton Springs Data Center on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025, in Newton County, Georgia. Katie Tucker/The Telegraph

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  • News

A ‘wave’ of data center ordinances sweep through GA counties. How strict are they?

Throughout several counties in and around Atlanta, contractors are grading soil and importing building materials, and construction crews are hammering away to build warehouses with cooling equipment that will house massive, hyper-scale computing servers.

October 22, 2025
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By:
  • Kala Hunter and
  • The Ledger Enquirer
a newly paved portion of Cascade Road

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  • News

Southwest Atlanta business owners confront city council over construction delays

Residents say the city hasn't been clear about when road work will be completed — and in the meantime, it's hurting business owners, they say.

August 06, 2025
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By:
  • Amanda Andrews
A rendering of the Jackson Street Bridge improvements. (Courtesy Atlanta Department of City Planning)

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  • News

City breaks ground on improvements for iconic Jackson Street Bridge

The Atlanta Department of Transportation (ATLDOT) and the Atlanta Downtown District (ADID) officially broke ground Tuesday morning on multimodal improvements along the Jackson Street Bridge.

July 09, 2025
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By:
  • Rough Draft Atlanta
construction materials on a dirt path in front of a large building with no windows or walls yet

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  • Sports

U.S. Soccer headquarters in South Atlanta on track for 2026 opening

Construction is well underway for the U.S. Soccer National Training Center in South Atlanta. Project leaders say it's on track for completion before the World Cup.

June 09, 2025
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By:
  • Amanda Andrews
Homebuilding has slowed as Americans face economic uncertainty and high mortgage rates. Here, construction workers install a lumber roof on a new home last month in Laveen, Ariz.

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  • Business

'We're in a holding pattern': Home sales and building slump in the face of uncertainty

Would-be homebuyers are finding lots of reasons to wait.

May 28, 2025
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By:
  • Laurel Wamsley
Georgia Power hosted company and project leaders, as well as state and local elected officials, for a groundbreaking ceremony at the BESS location in Floyd County on April 18, 2025. Georgia Power

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  • News

Georgia Power builds four new battery storage facilities. One’s in Bibb County.

Construction is underway at four new battery energy storage system sites located across Georgia, including one in Bibb County, totaling 765 megawatts of power.

May 09, 2025
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By:
  • Margaret Walker and
  • The Telegraph
People walk along the beach in Surfside, Fla., near the skyline of Sunny Isles Beach, on Dec. 17, 2024.

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  • National

About 3 dozen high-rise buildings in South Florida are sinking, a study finds

The 35 buildings surveyed along an almost 12-mile stretch from Miami Beach to Sunny Isles Beach have sunk or settled by 0.8 to 3.1 inches, scientists found.

December 19, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Melinda Mattocks-Ushry holds a photo of her brother Kelvin “Chuck” Mattocks at her home in New Bern, N.C., on Dec. 5, 2023.

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  • Investigations

Trench collapses have killed hundreds of workers in the U.S. over the last decade

More than 250 people have died since 2013 when trenches they were working in caved in. In most cases, the employers failed to follow basic government regulations for making trenches safe.

July 21, 2024
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By:
  • Cheryl W. Thompson,
  • Robert Benincasa,
  • and 2 more
Signage on the historic New Perry Hotel itself has been removed. A certificate of appropriateness for its demolition has been approved by the Main Street Advisory Board and the city’s Community Development Department. (Becky Purser/The Telegraph)

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  • News

Will nearly 100-year-old historic New Perry Hotel be demolished? Here’s what we know

Against the backdrop of the city’s 200th birthday celebration and amid public outcry, a nearly 100-year-old historic building is facing demolition. The three-story New Perry Hotel has been part of the fabric of downtown Perry since it was built in 1925. It’s listed on the National Register of Historic Places, but that does not protect the hotel from demolition. The steep cost of renovation has led current owners to recommend that the building be destroyed.

July 02, 2024
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By:
  • Becky Purser
Solar panels. (Pexels)

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  • News

Spread of solar farms in Georgia about to get legislative scrutiny

Georgia is the largest state east of the Mississippi River, with eight million acres of prime farmland. Yet, there’s so much concern over the spread of solar farms eating up huge portions of that acreage with vast fields of solar panels that the state Senate has formed a study committee to explore what can be done to save the most fertile land for farmers.

June 17, 2024
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By:
  • Dave Williams
Georgia Power Co.'s Plant Vogtle nuclear power plant is shown Friday, Jan. 20, 2023, in Waynesboro, Ga. The electric utility said on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024 that its second new reactor has begun splitting atoms.

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  • News

Georgia’s Vogtle plant could herald the beginning — or end — of a new nuclear era

Few issues are as divisive among American environmentalists as nuclear energy. Concerns about nuclear waste storage and safety, particularly in the wake of the 1979 Three Mile Island reactor meltdown in Pennsylvania, helped spur the retirement of nuclear power plants across the country. Nuclear energy’s proponents, however, counter that nuclear power has historically been among the safest forms of power generation, and that the consistent carbon-free energy it generates makes it an essential tool in the fight against global warming.

April 09, 2024
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By:
  • Gautama Mehta
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