The following article was authored by A.J. Mistretta and originally published in the Greater Houston Partnership blog:Following a year filled with extraordinary challenges, the...
Signals and Signposts
The current and future economy, trends in design and construction, political influence – sometimes we have something to say about topics which may be signs of things to come.
National nonresidential construction spending fell 0.6% in November 2020, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data published by the U.S....
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’...
Seasonally adjusted construction employment in November trailed pre-pandemic February levels in 35 states and exceeded them in 15 states and the District of Columbia, according to...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15— Associated Builders and Contractors' Chief Economist Anirban Basu forecasts a recession threat for the construction sector next year, but has illuminated some...
A cost squeeze for contractors eased slightly in November as the producer price index (PPI) for new nonresidential building construction—a measure of the price that contractors...
HOUSTON (Dec. 8, 2020) – The Greater Houston Partnership forecasts the Houston metro area will create between 35,000 and 52,000 net new jobs in 2021 as the region works to recover...
Nonfarm payroll construction employment, seasonally adjusted, increased in October by 27,000 to a total of 7,360,000, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday....
