Construction

Since at least 2002, developers have built thousands of windowless bedrooms in the city, most of them in apartment buildings meant for university students.

Low interest rates and a rise in the number of people moving to Austin made building apartments during the pandemic profitable. Now, there's less money to be made.

A group of community activists and neighborhood associations filed a federal lawsuit attempting to block the expansion of I-35 through Central Austin.

A new state law bans local ordinances that mandate breaks for construction workers. It doesn't matter how hot things get.

Gov. Greg Abbott approved this week a law that will eliminate city and county ordinances like Austin and Dallas’ mandated water breaks. Texas is one of the states where most workers die from high temperatures.

But airport officials say they'll eventually need to remove three gates to build an underground tunnel connecting the Barbara Jordan Terminal to a new concourse — part of an even longer-term expansion that would increase the airport's capacity by as many as 40 gates.

Voters approved a historic $2.4 billion bond package last November. It allows the district to borrow money to cover the costs of modernizing campuses, improving school security and buying new technology for students and staff.

The measure will hold contractors working on district property to a higher standard. The resolution requires any entity awarded a bid for a bond project to provide safety training, living wages and independent on-site monitoring.

The AISD Board of Trustees will decide on a resolution Thursday that seeks to ensure construction workers make a living wage and have safety training. The measure comes ahead of the 2022 school bond election which, if passed, will lead to many new construction projects in the district.

If you think of the number of new home groundbreakings and the number of new homes finished and sold as trains traveling on two parallel tracks, historically they've kept pace. That's no longer the case.