The U.S. DOT’s 2025 update to the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) program makes major changes to certification and eligibility. These updates will affect prime contractors, subcontractors, and currently certified DBEs nationwide. Here’s what’s changing and what you should do now to stay compliant.
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Surety Bond Professionals is a family-owned and operated bonding agency with over 75 years of experience. With access to a broad range of surety markets, our expert agents are ready to assist with all of your construction bond needs.
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Surety Bond Professionals is a family-owned and operated bonding agency with over 75 years of experience. With access to a broad range of surety markets, our expert agents are ready to assist with all of your construction bond needs.
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2025 is a pivot year for the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). In year four of a five-year law, cash is still flowing, but program rules, timelines, and even program names are shifting. Here’s what’s changed, and what owners and contractors should do about it. Surety Bond Professionals is a family-owned and operated bonding agency with over 75 years of experience. With access to a broad range of surety markets, our expert agents are ready to assist with all of your construction bond needs. What’s Fundamentally Different About IIJA Funding Flows In 2025? For the first part of the year, many transportation programs operated under a full-year continuing appropriations law signed in mid-March. Practically, that meant some solicitations and apportionments slid later on the calendar, and agencies leaned on standard obligation-limitation mechanics, including the late-summer “August redistribution.” DOT publishes a monthly scorecard showing how IIJA dollars are being used across modes. How Are Competitive Grants Shifting? The flagship discretionary grant program reverted from RAISE back to BUILD in 2025, with DOT running multiple rounds and posting awards under the restored branding. Solicitations, FAQs, and awards now appear under BUILD. Safety funds are also evolving. The Safe Streets and...
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Artificial intelligence will impact ethics in many ways, especially in the construction bidding process. Contractors can now use AI to track opportunities, perform takeoffs, and assemble proposals. When this is used well, it will shorten tasks and lower errors. But when used poorly, it will hide weak assumptions and tempt teams into risky shortcuts.
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The Department of Defense’s new, uniform National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) procedures reduce review timelines by expanding categorical exclusions, establishing firm deadlines, and enabling the DoD to adopt or reuse prior analyses. In short: more projects qualify for faster, simpler reviews, so less time is spent on paperwork and more on building.
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Every new federal building must be designed to meet the energy efficiency standards set forth in either 10 CFR 433 (New Federal Commercial and Multi-Family High-Rise Residential Buildings) or 10 CFR 435 (New Federal Low-Rise, less than three stories, Residential Buildings). This update aims to support performance requirements and speed up the need for less fossil fuels in new construction and major renovations. This blog provides a quick overview of the changes and next steps.
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Surety Bond Professionals is a family-owned and operated bonding agency with over 75 years of experience. With access to a broad range of surety markets, our expert agents are ready to assist with all of your construction bond needs.
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Amid changing state rules, community solar is the fastest, most inclusive way to expand clean-energy access nationwide: subscribers earn bill credits from off-site projects, while developers navigate policy variability, and surety bonds help de-risk procurement, construction, and long-term obligations.
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