The number of housing units that came online in September showed a big year-over-year jump, but data on earlier stages of construction suggest not much is coming through the pipeline. That’s according ...

How do you paint a rosy picture for a construction market sector that’s been in the dumps and shows scant signs of a quick change of fortune? There's one way: Stretch the definition, and throw in a ...

Data centers made up most of the gains in nonresidential construction spending last month, however contractors see it as a pyrrhic victory as tariffs and economic uncertainty mount on the horizon.

Non-residential construction will grow very slowly over the course of 2025, but at least not shrink. However, many of the private non-residential sectors will decline, with strong gains in data ...

Data centers were one of the bright spots in a year that saw total construction spending decline 1.4% from the previous year.

Despite depressed construction spending and economic headwinds, the nation’s largest contractors' construction backlogs are nearly two months longer than they were a year ago — and much of the reason ...

According to the National Institute of Building Sciences’ Whole Building Design Guide, construction costs represent less than one-fifth of a built asset’s overall costs. The majority of the costs come ...

WASHINGTON, DC — The construction industry added 8,000 jobs on net in October, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data released today by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

A split view of the commercial market illustrates the divide: traditional building work has slowed or stalled in many regions, while power-intensive data center infrastructure continues to expand, ...

Speed to market drives data center construction. That creates a ripe opportunity for modular construction, writes one ...

The explosive growth in data center construction and the related increases in the demand for the electrical construction materials, contractor installation, and design services they require is quite ...