DPR Construction

Santa Clara, Calif. – October 16, 2026 -- DPR Construction moved up one place to No. 3 on Engineering News-Record's 2026 Top Green Contractors list, from No. 4 in 2025, as green contracting revenue across the sector's top 100 firms rose 5.9% to $101.9 billion in 2025.

ENR ranks contractors by revenue from certified green projects

ENR's annual list ranks firms on revenue from construction services for projects registered with or certified by third-party organizations. Those organizations set standards for environmental impact, energy efficiency or carbon footprint.

DPR's water strategies saved more than 48 million gallons in 2025

According to DPR's 2025 Global Social Responsibility Annual Report, water strategies on major projects saved more than 48 million gallons of freshwater in 2025 alone. The report also details expanded use of lower-carbon concrete, cleaner equipment and lower-emission fuels.

Santa Clara, Calif. – September 30, 2026 -- The producer price index for new nonresidential construction inputs climbed 8.4% year over year through May 2026, the steepest annual increase since the pandemic period, according to DPR Construction's latest Market Conditions Report.

Cross-sector demand strains shared labor and supply pools

DPR Construction, a self-performing contractor, finds that investment across digital infrastructure, healthcare, advanced manufacturing, transportation and energy is pulling from the same pools of electricians, mechanical trades, commissioning specialists and field leaders. Projects that appear unrelated on paper are increasingly tied together through overlapping resource demands, the report states.

AUSTIN, Texas -- September 01, 2026 -- DPR Construction completed the 74-story Waterline tower at 98 Red River Street two months ahead of its original 50-month schedule, finishing the job in 48 months. The 1,025-foot structure now stands as the tallest building in Texas, DPR announced on Aug. 31, 2026. The 2.7 million-square-foot tower, co-developed by Lincoln Property Company and Kairoi Residential, combines residential, hotel, office, retail and parking uses on a footprint of more than three acres in downtown Austin.

DPR Deploys 6,800 Workers Across 4.5 Million Labor Hours

More than 150 trade partners and roughly 6,800 skilled workers logged approximately 4.5 million hours on the project, with about 1,000 workers onsite during peak construction. Crews placed more than 150,000 cubic yards of concrete, a volume DPR compares to 46 Olympic-sized swimming pools, and built 92 individual sculptural columns, including 15 installed on the roof.