Jeddah – October 14, 2026 -- The rooftop pool at the Hilton Garden Inn in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, passed post-commissioning testing with walls on the floor below found almost entirely dry and no leakage detected beneath the slab, according to The Penetron Group. PENETRON ADMIX performed as a standalone waterproofing system, with no membrane required.

Phoenix – October 13, 2026 -- D.R. Horton, America's largest homebuilder by volume, has signed a multi-year commercial agreement with Promise Robotics to produce more than 1,250 homes through the company's Factory-as-a-Service (FaaS) platform.

D.R. Horton is the first major U.S. homebuilder to use Promise Robotics' production platform. The deal comes as Promise expands its U.S. manufacturing network.

Irvine – October 13, 2026 -- Bluon has launched Asset Manager, a feature that enriches historical HVAC equipment records using a proprietary dataset of more than 35 million unique model numbers across 270 OEMs dating back to 1980.

Scottsdale – October 13, 2026 -- Taylor Morrison Chief Marketing and Communications Officer Stephanie McCarty has been named the inaugural CMO of the Year by BUILDER and Zonda, selected from four finalists for an award recognizing marketing's growing influence on homebuilding.

Austin – October 13, 2026 -- UpCodes' AI Plan Review has surfaced more than $1 million in estimated potential construction error costs on average per project, based on more than 1,300 construction plan sets reviewed since its June launch.

The tool has identified more than 180,000 potential issues across those plan sets. Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, BDG Architects and Hereford Dooley Architects are among the companies newly adopting the technology.

Lausanne – October 13, 2026 -- Revizto's 5.18 release loads complex models four times faster than version 5.17 and adds Draft Mode, a private workspace for capturing issues and markups across 2D drawings and 3D models before they enter the project record.

Hyattsville – October 12, 2026 -- Home Genius Exteriors, a multi-state roofing and siding contractor, won three honors at the 2026 Cascade Capital Corporation Business Growth Awards: the Business Growth Award, the Best Legacy Sales Growth Service Award and the Best Story Service Award.

Fort Lauderdale – October 12, 2026 -- A Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture team has won the £10,000 2026 GROHE Water Prize for terracotta facade tiles that capture fog up to 400% more efficiently than standard flat surfaces.

The award, presented by GROHE for the World Architecture Festival (WAF), went to the project "Bio-inspired Architectural Terracotta for Sustainable Water Harvesting." The team is led by Associate Professor and Lead Researcher Laura Garófalo. WAF is scheduled for November 18-20 in Fort Lauderdale.

Nairobi – October 12, 2026 -- Vallar Advanced Systems, a U.S. manufacturer of water-based road-building chemicals, has presented its alternative to asphalt to the Government of Kenya, targeting the country's unpaved secondary and rural road network.

Vallar presents soil-stabilization plan to Kenyan officials during AmCham visit

The company's team attended an American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) Kenya event in Nairobi. It also met senior government and civil society leaders and officials at the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi.

Tilbury – October 11, 2026 -- National Grid's tunnel boring machine (TBM) Caroline completed a 2.2km drive beneath the River Thames 49 days ahead of the original programme, ending the tunnelling phase of the Grain to Tilbury project, part of The Great Grid Upgrade.

The breakthrough came on Sunday 27 September. Caroline excavated a new high-voltage electricity cable tunnel between Tilbury in Essex and Gravesend in Kent.