Construction — AbbVie's $1.4B North Carolina campus anchors pharma-industrial construction surge; Texas infrastructure quality concerns and industry-wide safety standardization efforts signal maturing market tensions

Construction · 2026-05-06

TODAY'S SIGNAL — Today's construction intelligence reveals a market operating under simultaneous expansion and strain. AbbVie's $1.4B manufacturing campus in Durham represents the latest in a string of mega-projects fueled by reshoring and pharmaceutical investment, creating a deep pipeline for general contractors and specialty trades in the Southeast. But the Texas infrastructure story is the…