July 18, 2018 What Can We Expect Geographically for Construction? As I mentioned on my last blog post, I had the opportunity to interview Robert Murray, Chief Economist and Vice President with Dodge Data & Analytics, ...Keep Reading
July 12, 2018 The Ups and Downs of the U.S. Construction Cycle Just like the economy, the construction industry goes through business cycles. Between the years 1854 and 2009, the U.S. economy averaged 38.7 months in ...Keep Reading
April 17, 2018 How Steel Tariff Increases Could Impact U.S. Construction When President Trump took office in January 2017, one of his promises was to renegotiate, and, if needed, alter trade agreements with the goal of helping ...Keep Reading
March 8, 2018 Canadian Outlook and Construction Forecast for 2018 This year we decided to add economic coverage of Canada to our annual forecast report, providing you a better overview of the North American market. ...Keep Reading
February 21, 2018 State and MSA Construction Forecasts for 2018 While high level construction forecasts are great, we all know that construction and real estate is all about LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION. For that reason, I ...Keep Reading
February 6, 2018 Checking Our 2018 Predictions on U.S. Construction by Geography In the fall of 2017, we discussed the main construction drivers for each U.S. region and predicted how we thought they would perform in 2018. Now that we're a ...Keep Reading
January 3, 2018 U.S. End-Market Construction Forecast When evaluating and analyzing the construction market, we usually break it down into three main construction categories or segments: Residential, ...Keep Reading
December 5, 2017 What to Expect for Construction Costs in 2018 Earlier this year, we gave an industry consensus of the cost of materials and looked at the pace of growth for architectural and engineering services, labor, ...Keep Reading
November 3, 2017 2018 Forecast: The U.S. Economy Remains Strong Approaching 2018 The United States GDP third-quarter 2017 advance estimates were released a few days ago, so I started thinking about how the United States economy has been ...Keep Reading
October 20, 2017 The 2018 Construction Forecast Report is Here It’s that time of the year again to start planning for 2018, and, to help with that, we are releasing our 2018 construction forecast report covering the United ...Keep Reading
October 11, 2017 2018 North American Construction Forecast Preview United States Regions and Construction Before the release of our 2018 North American Construction Forecast Report, we thought it would be useful to provide ...Keep Reading
August 15, 2017 Why Home Remodels Are Up Among Millennial Home Buyers Home remodeling has been featured quite a bit in the news recently thanks to a substantial increase in renovations. Many are electing to stay put rather than ...Keep Reading