October construction wins span $15 billion LNG, $1 billion sewer

October’s project slate at a glance

Contractors entered November with wins spanning a $15 billion LNG project in British Columbia and a $1 billion upgrade at San Francisco’s largest wastewater facility, according to Construction Dive. The roundup covers the previous month, October, as 2026 enters its penultimate month.

Construction Dive’s lead energy item is LNG Canada’s liquefied natural gas export facility in Kitimat, British Columbia. The publication paired it with an aerial image credited to Fluor.

Within Construction Dive’s roundup, the $15 billion project leads a slate that extended beyond the billion-dollar threshold. The source also reported a $1 billion makeover of San Francisco’s largest treatment plant. That facility handles nearly 80% of the area’s wastewater, and the upgrade will proceed while it remains operational.

Construction Dive said October brought education wins, military-related contracts, airport upgrades, and bridge and tunnel work. The publication called bridge and tunnel work “the meat-and-potatoes projects that keep contractors’ books filled with backlog.”

Construction Dive’s roundup then detailed these starts and awards:

• Perini Management Services has started work at Base Kodiak in Alaska, while Skanska has begun replacing an agency’s homeport pier in Newport, Rhode Island.
• The Metropolitan Airports Commission selected a general contractor to serve as construction manager at risk for an expansion project at Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport.
• A Sweden-based contractor announced three wins with a collective value of $351 million as it began a fourth project worth $67 million.
• A 20-foot-diameter tunnel in Cleveland will divert 550 million gallons of combined sewer releases annually from Lake Erie.
• Turner, Granite and Tutor Perini wrapped the last week of the third quarter with project awards from the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard.

Construction Dive said the federal win for a Tutor Perini subsidiary reflects the heavy civil contractor’s priority shift toward data centers. Tutor Perini emphasized that shift on recent earnings calls.

Other company and institutional updates accompanied the Construction Dive package. The Seattle Aquarium won an ASCE award, Accenture acquired a startup, and Balfour Beatty made an executive change in its Southeast building segment.

What do these wins change for contractors?

For contractors, the practical change is a fuller mix of work entering November. Construction Dive says megaprojects supply large commitments, while education, military, airport, bridge and tunnel work keeps contractors’ books filled with backlog. October therefore combines two billion-dollar projects with a wider set of institutional and public assignments.

The summary did not disclose a combined October award value. It also did not name the Sweden-based contractor, the selected general contractor for the airport, Accenture’s startup or the agency whose Newport pier Skanska is replacing.

For contractors entering November, the workload spans two billion-dollar projects plus the smaller work that fills an order book. The next phase is execution across energy, water, airport, military and transport sites, the pipeline Construction Dive identified in October.