Architecture and art integration firm Svigals + Partners is advancing its award-winning designs and quality client service with the promotions of key staff members. In addition to two newly named associate principals, architect Brian Stancavage and director of marketing and business development Cheryl Hart, three team members have moved into associate positions.

National nonresidential construction spending increased by 0.4 percent in December, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data published Feb. 1 by the U.S. Census Bureau. On a seasonally adjusted annualized basis, nonresidential spending totaled $1.174 trillion.

The construction industry had 295,000 job openings on the last day of June, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey.

For Buro Happold’s United States operations, the firm has just named Denzil Gallagher as its new U.S. managing director, essentially chief executive for the region. Gallagher has been with Buro Happold for over three decades.

The magazine reports on its annual Top 50 Contractors list.

Following the 2023 debut of its “City of Yes” strategy to permit more housing faster in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams’ administration unveiled a raft of zoning changes last winter intended to make the proposed growth carbon-neutral, according to Adam Friedberg, a Buro Happold expert behind similar initiatives in the region and worldwide.

Parksite is expanding its partnership with Tando Composites to distribute the TandoStone product line and the Beach House Shake product lines within its Florida distribution markets, effective immediately.

The Portland Cement Association, representing America’s cement manufacturers, demonstrated the cement industry’s commitment to carbon neutrality to key executive branch decision-makers at the White House’s Concrete Innovation Summit – as well as outlined what steps must be taken to further reduce cement sector emissions.