Hospital construction costs for 2024
Data from Gordian breaks down the average cost per square foot for a three-story hospital across 10 U.S. cities.
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Data from Gordian breaks down the average cost per square foot for a three-story hospital across 10 U.S. cities.
National nonresidential construction spending increased 0.2% in March, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data published today by the U.S. Census Bureau. On a seasonally adjusted annualized basis, nonresidential spending totaled $1.19 trillion.
Managers of companies in the industrial sector, including construction, have bought the hype of artificial intelligence (AI) as a transformative technology, but their organizations are not ready to realize its promise, according to research from IFS, a global cloud enterprise software company. An IFS survey of 1,700 senior decision-makers found that 84% of executives anticipate massive organizational benefits from AI.
As seen in the Q1 2024 U.S. Hotel Construction Pipeline Trend Report from Lodging Econometrics (LE), at the end of the first quarter, there are 6,065 projects with 702,990 rooms in the pipeline. This new all-time high represents a 9% year-over-year (YOY) increase in projects and a 7% YOY increase in rooms compared to last year.
The report looks at global threats and opportunities, and how CRE firms are managing their expectations for growth.
Business conditions softening most in Midwest in recent months.
CallisonRTKL foresees future retail centers as hubs with live/work/play components.
A new CBRE survey finds more companies leaning toward “smarter” workspaces.
Nonresidential construction spending expanded 2.5% on a monthly basis and 12.3% on a yearly basis, totaling $701.9 billion. Spending increased in January in 10 of 16 nonresidential construction sectors.
This year’s report shows that spending in 2015 reached the highest level since the Great Recession. Total spending on U.S. construction grew 10.5% to $1.1 trillion, the largest year-over-year gain since 2007.
Its latest report cautions about ongoing cost increases related to finding skilled laborers.
Multifamily residential sector improving after sluggish 2015.
The American Institute of Architects’ semi-annual Consensus Construction Forecast indicates a growth of 8% in construction spending in 2016, and 6.7% the following year.
But finding skilled workers continues to be a problem and could inflate a project's costs.