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Total construction spending decreased by 0.4 percent in July as spending on new houses and apartments tumbled, overshadowing a pickup in…
91 Percent of Construction Firms Having a Hard Time Finding Workers to Hire, Driving Up Costs and Project Delays, New…
Construction employment increased in 250 or 70 percent of 358 metro areas between July 2021 and July 2022, according to…
Construction employment in July continued to trail pre-pandemic levels in 15 states as contractors struggled to find qualified workers to…
The chief executive officer of the Associated General Contractors of America, Stephen E. Sandherr, released the following statement in response…
Prices of Concrete Products and Some Building Materials Continue to Rise, While Diesel Fuel, Asphalt, Lumber and Some Metals Fall…
Construction firms added 32,000 jobs in July as the sector’s unemployment rate fell to 3.5 percent and the number of…
Construction employment fell in 61 and was unchanged in another 51 out of 358 metro areas between June 2021 and…
CONSTRUCTION SPENDING FALLS IN JUNE WITH DECLINES IN RESIDENTIAL AND NONRESIDENTAL ACTIVITY AMID GROWING LABOR AND MATERIALS SHORTAGES Construction Association Official…
For more than two years, the U.S. construction industry has been buffeted by unprecedented increases in material costs, supply-chain bottlenecks,…