Category: Research

A statute-by-statute registry of how fast state and local governments must pay contractors, how fast primes must pay subcontractors, what interest a late public owner owes and how much retainage it may hold, checked on 2026-10-08.

A county-by-county reading of the storm record, federal disaster declarations, FEMA’s modeled losses and the 2023 Florida Building Code, with what each means for commercial construction.

How many U.S. construction businesses use artificial intelligence, how fast that share is rising, how construction compares with 18 other sectors and what firms use AI for, from Census Bureau survey data released October 8, 2026.

A registry of enforceable state heat rules, preemption laws and the federal OSHA proposal, with triggers, required protections and the share of construction jobs each covers.

A four-part index of BLS employment data ranks the 56 largest US metros on where construction jobs are being added and where commercial building is growing.

Construction industry concentration measured four ways: Census concentration ratios, firm-size shares of jobs, payroll and receipts, receipts-size tiers and the self-employed, for commercial and institutional building (NAICS 236220) against other industries.

Annual tracker of output per hour in US construction, built from BLS and BEA data, comparing nonresidential and residential builders with manufacturing and the private economy.

How current federal Davis-Bacon building rates for six trades compare with BLS May 2025 market wages in the principal county of 20 large metros, and why survey-based rates sit furthest below the market.

A dated register of the 2025 to 2026 tariff actions that reach building inputs, matched month by month to BLS producer and import price data.

A 50-state atlas built from BLS OEWS May 2025, QCEW 2020 to 2026, BLS Employment Projections 2025 to 2035, DOL apprenticeship records and Census construction spending.