• Workers lowering a large water main pipe into a deep trench in a city street with mountains in the distance

    Colorado’s 2026 Water and Sewer Work: What’s Funded and What’s in the Ground

    Colorado's infrastructure still grades a C-, but the money moving through the State Revolving Funds and Water Plan grants has widened considerably. Here is what that funding looks like on the ground in 2026 — from Montrose's $33.6 million plant expansion to 11 miles of new gravity mains in Colorado Springs — and what those jobs demand from the contractors building them.

  • Aerial view of a highway widening project in the Colorado foothills with graded dirt, orange barrels and construction equipment

    Reading Colorado’s 2025 Project Pipeline: What Front Range Civil Work Looks Like Heading Into 2026

    Colorado's 2025 highway, tollway and municipal announcements sketch a fairly clear forecast for Front Range civil work: I-70 Floyd Hill mid-construction, I-25 North widening and drainage, an E-470 phase scheduled for late 2026, and multi-year municipal utility programs in Centennial and Denver. Here is what each item actually tells a contractor about scope, stage and timing — and where the evidence stops.