Eight months of construction decline might hide the industry’s biggest opportunity. You’ve seen the numbers. Construction spending dropped 0.4% in June, marking the eighth consecutive monthly…
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Is America really in a housing crisis?If you work in construction, you already know something’s seriously wrong. Materials cost more. Projects take longer. Everyone’s scrambling to find good…
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Why Construction’s Paper-Based Delivery System Is Failing Million-Dollar ProjectsPaper receipts for million-dollar material deliveries.Let that reality sink in for a moment. We’re moving pallets of…
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The AI revolution has an unexpected bottleneck. We’re watching data center construction skyrocket by 90% in 2024, driven by massive AI infrastructure demands. Tech companies are racing to build the…
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Construction disputes now average $43 million in North America. That number should make every material provider, contractor, and lender sit up and pay attention.Most of these disputes could be…
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New home sales numbers don’t lie.Residential construction is officially in recession, with builders pulling back when inventory hits that critical 120,000 unit threshold. But here’s what the…
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Construction tech just hit a turning point.We’re seeing AI transform everything from project planning to safety monitoring. A recent Fortune feature on BigRentz—a heavy equipment rental…
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Construction starts just hit $1.33 trillion.That’s a 16% jump in June alone, driven by a massive 39% surge in nonresidential building. Manufacturing projects exploded by 304%. Commercial building…
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Recent forecasts of the construction materials market hitting $2.47 trillion by 2032 (according to Fortune Business Insights) is turning heads. The growth projections look incredible on paper.But…
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Economists are sounding recession alarms while construction M&A just hit $38 billion. That’s triple last year’s deal value.Something doesn’t add up.We’ve spent years watching this industry from…