65 years after Governor Pat Brown said "let's start drilling" in 1962. Here's the full story of decades of delays, political battles, and what contractors need to know about this massive underground project.

The Metro D Line Extension (yeah, they renamed it like five times, used to be the Purple Line, before that the "Subway to the Sea") opens May 8, 2026 at 12:30 PM with three new stations: Wilshire/La Brea, Wilshire/Fairfax, and Wilshire/La Cienega. And honestly? From what I'm seeing, it looks pretty damn impressive.

The Army measured 9.3 percent cost savings on ten printed barracks at Fort Bliss. That number, plus the code limits, the company failures of 2025, and an honest look at the affordability claim.

Die free robotic forming is real, but the company most associated with it has become a defense manufacturer. The architectural work is happening somewhere else, and the code path is about testing rather than approval.

Printed formwork and precast molds are real production work today. Printed structural metal and composite building elements are not, and the standards gap explains why.