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More than 70% of contractors expect to increase staffing levels over the next six months.
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AIA’s ABI score for April showed a small increase in design services at 50.5 in April.
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Projects currently under construction stand at 1,709 projects/227,924 rooms.
Nonresidential input prices rose 0.9% compared to March and are up 2.8% on an annual basis.
Rider Levett Bucknall's latest Quarterly Cost Report shows how construction costs vary by market. Image: RLB
Latest Rider Levett Bucknall report estimates rise at more than double the rate of 2018 Growth Do...
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Growth was fueled by myriad factors, including personal consumption expenditures, private invento...
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The Construction Confidence Index remained strong in February, according to the Associated Builde...
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ABC's Construction Backlog Indicator expanded to 8.8 months in February 2019.
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Top-performing segments forecast in 2019 include transportation, public safety, and education....
Private nonresidential spending fell 0.5% for the month and is only up 0.1% on a year-over-year b...
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Expectations for sales during the coming six-month period remained especially upbeat in January....
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AIA’s Architecture Billings Index (ABI) score for February was 50.3, down from 55.3 in January....
The Construction Backlog Indicator contracted to 8.1 months during January 2019.
At a seasonally adjusted annualized rate, nonresidential spending totaled $762.5 billion for the...
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Of the 11 construction subcategories, seven experienced price declines for the month.
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There are a record-high 6,352 hotel projects and 1.17 million rooms currently under construction...
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Year-over-year GDP growth was 3.1%, while average growth for 2018 was 2.9%.
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“The government shutdown affected architecture firms, but doesn’t appear to have created a slowdo...
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CBI reached a record high of 9.9 months in the second quarter of 2018 and averaged about 9.1 mont...
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The list ranks countries and regions in terms of cumulative LEED-certified gross square meters as...
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Construction industry momentum to carry through first half of 2019.
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Illinois takes the top spot as USGBC defines the next generation of green building with LEED v4.1...
Total nonresidential spending stood at $751.5 billion on a seasonally adjusted annualized rate....
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Project counts in the early planning stage continue to rise reaching an all-time high of 1,723 pr...
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Spending for noneresidential buildings is expected to increase by 10% between 2018 and 2022, to $572.1 billion, or just under 40% of total construction put in place that year. Image: FMI
FMI’s annual outlook also expects the industry’s frantic M&A activity to be leavened by cauti...
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AIA’s Architecture Billings Index (ABI) score for December was 50.4 compared to 54.7 in November....
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The education, public safety, and office sectors will lead the growth areas this year, but AIA's...
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The South and Mid-Atlantic regions should be the strongest for commercial office space, according to a recent survey of brokerage pros. Image: Transwestern
Respondents to a recent Transwestern poll expect flat to modest growth for rents and investment i...
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More than half of New York's Gross Domestic Product is generated by is financial and business services sector that is the world's largest. Image: Pixabay
But San Jose, Calif., is expected to have the best annual growth rate through 2035, according to...
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