Lean Construction & Industry Reports
Read about what is impacting the construction industry, including quarterly economic insights, specialty reports on Lean best practices, technology trends, supply chain, health & safety, and labor.
Recharging America: The Construction Opportunity in America’s Power Buildout, 2025–2030
This executive report examines how rising electricity demand will drive construction spending through 2030 and the constraints that will determine how much gets built.
Today’s Construction Economy Report – Q3 2026
This quarter’s edition discusses how U.S. nonresidential construction enters the third quarter of 2026 in a deceptively calm position.
Today’s Construction Economy Report – Q2 2026
This quarter’s edition discusses how despite loud headlines around geopolitics, oil, interest rates, and recession risk, U.S. nonresidential construction is not broadly weakening.
Today’s Construction Economy Report – Q1 2026
This quarter’s edition discusses how 2026 is shaping up not as a year of broad expansion, but as one defined by the surge of power-intensive industriescolliding directly with structural constraints that dictate pace.
Sizing the Surge: U.S. Data Center Construction Outlook to 2030
This special report provides the most comprehensive snapshot of the U.S. data center construction market through 2030.
Today’s Construction Economy Report – Q4 2025
This quarter brings market volatility, but growth in data centers, energy, and manufacturing favors firms aligned with policy-driven sectors.
Today’s Construction Economy Report – Q3 2025
This quarter’s edition discusses the U.S. nonresidential construction market softening amid trade uncertainty, inflationary input costs, and shifting federal priorities.
Today’s Construction Economy Report – Q2 2025
This quarter’s edition discusses elevated risk-driven inflation led by workforce constraints and material availability.
Today’s Construction Economy Report – Q1 2025
This quarter’s edition analyzes key trends affecting the U.S. nonresidential construction sector, highlighting slowing spending growth, shifting labor dynamics, and emerging cost risks.
Today’s Construction Economy Report – Q3/Q4 2024
This quarter’s edition discusses the challenges construction faced due to natural disaster recovery, a brief port strike, and a tense election cycle.
Today’s Construction Economy Report – Q2 2024
This quarter’s edition discusses how material prices have gone down, logistic issues have begun to resolve, and how the rest of 2024 looks.
Today’s Construction Economy Report – Q1 2024
This quarter’s edition discusses how the construction market has continued to reflect strong fundamentals with some indicators softening.