The largest award in this round is $55.1 million to Tucson International Airport to shift or reconfigure a runway.

All construction industry segments added jobs, led by nonresidential specialty contractors.

Among the largest grants in current agency funding round are awards of $25 million each to Milwaukee and Long Beach, Calif.

Bureau of Labor Statistics projects 380,100 increase in industry jobs in 2023-2033 period.

Chiefs of Laborers and Electrical Workers unions addressed delegates in Chicago as Democrats released their party platform that emphasized infrastructure funding priorities.

The Federal Highway Administration has released a extensive blueprint for implementing the use of vehicle-to-everything, or V2X, connectivity through 2036.

Largest grant in the round is $49.6 million to Kailua/Kona International in Keahole, Hawaii. 

Many of the grants from the FAA's Airport Improvement Program will go for runway and taxiway improvement work.

Aim of the grants is to build a "pipeline" of new bridge projects, FHWA Administrator Shailen Bhatt says.

Strong endorsements come in for the Minnesota governor from organized labor and state AGC chapter, but Associated Builders and Contractors criticized Walz's record.