Nonfarm payroll construction employment, seasonally adjusted, slumped in February by 61,000 to a four-month low of 7,340,000, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported...
Materials prices continued rising this week. Copper futures closed Thursday at $4.26 per pound, a nearly 10-year high and up 63% from a year ago. The national...
March 02, 2021
The gap between input costs for construction and contractors’ bid prices widened further in January. The producer price index (PPI) for nonresidential building construction—a...
February 22, 2021
Materials prices and delivery problems continue to rise sharply. One reader received a letter on Tuesday from a southern-based structural-steel distributor that reported that,...
February 16, 2021
Nonfarm payroll construction employment, seasonally adjusted, slipped in January by 3,000 from a downwardly revised December total to 7,392,000, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (...
February 08, 2021
Seasonally adjusted construction employment in December trailed the pre-pandemic February level in 34 states, exceeded it in 15 states and the District of Columbia, and held...
February 02, 2021
Total construction starts (dollars) declined 5% from November to December at a seasonally adjusted annual rate, Dodge Data & Analytics reported on Tuesday. “...
January 25, 2021
A cost squeeze for contractors intensified in December as the producer price index (PPI) for nonresidential building construction—a measure of the price that contractors say they...
January 18, 2021
Nonfarm payroll construction employment, seasonally adjusted, increased in December by 51,000 to a total of 7,413,000, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported ...
January 11, 2021
U.S. population growth slowed for the fifth year in a row, to an all-time low of 0.35% between July 1, 2019 and July 1, 2020 from 0.46% a year earlier, according to AGC’...
December 28, 2020
