UT San Antonio is heading into 2026 with a wave of facility investment that adds housing, expands downtown academic and business-support space, and upgrades athletics infrastructure. Five projects—some already in use, others nearing completion—highlight where the university is putting construction dollars to work.
Higher education is facing a nearly $1 trillion mountain of capital investment needs — much of which is driven by decades of deferred maintenance and the rising cost of modernization— alongside mounting pressure on operating models, enrollment and public funding.
Stamford officials have approved plans for construction of the new Roxbury Elementary School, advancing one of the city’s largest K-12 capital projects as part of the broader, $1.5 billion Stamford Public Schools Long-term Facilities Plan to improve facilities across the city.
The University of South Carolina (USC), has reached a major milestone with the “topping out” of the new School of Medicine at the university’s Health Sciences Campus in Columbia’s BullStreet District.
California State University Fullerton has reached a major construction milestone on its Engineering and Computer Science Innovation Hub, topping out the $54 million project and marking the completion of structural work on the facility.
The Wake County Public School System has completed its new 133,000-square-foot Rex Road Elementary School campus in Holly Springs, N.C., designed to accommodate 800 students from Kindergarten through fifth grade.
Huntsville City Schools has broken ground on a new shared campus that will house two rebuilt elementary schools, marking a major milestone in the district’s 10-year capital plan.
The Community Group (TCG), a nonprofit dedicated to education and family support, celebrated a major project milestone with the signing of the structural steel framing for the organization’s new educational facility in Lawrence.
Taholah School District marked a historic milestone on Nov. 14, when community members, families, students, and partners gathered to celebrate the official groundbreaking for the district’s new 75,000-square-foot K-12 school, which upon completion will serve 250 students.
Arizona State University (ASU) recently announced plans for an estimated 200,000-square-foot building in Phoenix that will serve as ASU Health’s new headquarters.
