Dodge Construction Reports Total Construction Starts Slip

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Total construction starts fell 27% in January to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $865.6 billion, according to Dodge Construction Network. During the month, nonresidential building starts fell 38%, residential starts lost 20% and nonbuilding starts declined by 16%. Comparatively, total construction was 14% lower in January 2023 than in January 2022. Nonresidential building starts were down 2%, nonbuilding starts rose 10% and residential starts lost 34%. For the 12 months ending January 2023, total construction starts were 13% higher than the 12 months ending January 2022. Nonresidential starts were 36% higher, residential starts lost 6% and nonbuilding starts were … Read more

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Construction Labor Shortages Persist, Reports Annual Marcum Job Analysis

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The construction industry continues to face a skilled labor shortage, with worker scarcity worsening since the beginning of the pandemic, according to Marcum LLP’s annual analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. The construction industry has slowly begun to recover jobs lost in the early months of 2020. But the rate of recovery has put the industry significantly behind the pre-pandemic pace of employment growth. The residential sector, buoyed by a boom in new home construction, has gained employees at a faster pace than the nonresidential sector over the past two years. Nonresidential construction … Read more

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Fourth Quarter Marcum Construction Index Available

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The Marcum Commercial Construction Index for the fourth quarter of 2022 reveals that the construction industry retained momentum at year’s end despite constraints facing the industry, including labor shortages, materials costs and elevated borrowing costs. While some construction segments have fared better than others, an overheated economy and gloomy economic outlook will eventually begin to drag on the industry. Labor shortages remain the most pressing issue for the construction industry. Material prices rebounded at the start of 2023, but the moderating input price escalation observed across much of 2022 is likely here to stay. While higher interest rates have significantly diminished … Read more

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Economic Pressures Drive Change for Construction and Engineering Companies in 2023

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There is huge potential for those looking to adapt and become more resilient explains Kenny Ingram, vice president of Construction & Engineering and Chris Knight, global industry director of Construction & Engineering at IFS. With a combined 60+ years of industry expertise, they analyze key market data and identify three areas of change that will help C&E organizations navigate the turbulent market dynamic. 1: The rise of the industrialized construction model – becoming the next-gen construction company Increasingly, we are seeing the industrialization of construction processes; in fact, by 2025, 30% of companies will change their construction processes to an … Read more

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Construction Workforce Shortage Tops Half a Million in 2023, Says ABC

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The construction industry will need to attract an estimated 546,000 additional workers on top of the normal pace of hiring in 2023 to meet the demand for labor, according to a proprietary model developed by Associated Builders and Contractors. ABC’s proprietary model uses the historical relationship between inflation-adjusted construction spending growth, sourced from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Construction Put in Place survey, as well as payroll construction employment, sourced from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, to convert anticipated increases in construction outlays into demand for construction labor at a rate of approximately 3,620 new jobs per billion dollars of … Read more

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