
Building an Entrepreneur: How a Construction Company Owner Founded a Franchise Business
By Grace Calengor
August 14, 2025
Sandwiched between the Texas Resolution Trust Corporation collapse of the 1980s and the Great Recession of the 2000s, Brian Robinson managed to carve out a name for himself in business—a name which still flourishes today as the founder of RDI Construction LLC and owner of a succe...

Future-Proofing: Spend Your Money Smarter
By Dave Gray
August 11, 2025
Tariffs. Inflation. Bear markets. Recession?
These scary economic terms have dominated headlines lately, and every construction executive is understandably concerned about the future of their business. According to Forbes, the scale of proposed tariffs has prompted economic team...

Numbers Don't Lie: Accounting Leaders Weigh In on State of 2025 Construction Finance
By David McMillin
August 6, 2025
On the surface, accounting feels fairly simple: Add up the revenue, subtract the expenses and report where all the dollars are going. Today’s construction industry, however, is anything but simple, and it demands the ability to take a deeper dive into the immediate details while ...

Nonresidential Construction Spending Contracts in Six of Past Seven Months
By ABC
August 5, 2025
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1—National nonresidential construction spending decreased 0.1% in June, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data published by the U.S. Census Bureau. On a seasonally adjusted annualized basis, nonresidential spending totaled $1.241 tri...

How Contractors Can Navigate Growth Amid Higher Costs and a Tight Labor Market
By Ben Johnston
July 30, 2025
Contractors today face a number of challenges: residual effects of ongoing inflation and elevated cost of capital due to a higher interest rate environment; the impact of tariffs driving up the cost of materials; and a tight labor market making it challenging to hire skilled work...

Construction Futures: July 2025 Economic Roundup
By Construction Executive
July 28, 2025
What We Learned in July
Construction spending has been declining for several months, yet industrywide employment continues to grow, backlog increased in June and ABC members remain relatively confident about the future. Despite that optimism, the industry faces many headwinds in...

'It’s Going to All Work Out for America': Anirban Basu on 2025 Mid-Year Construction Economic Forecast
By Construction Executive
July 24, 2025
In the latest Construction Economic Update and Forecast webinar, expert economist Anirban Basu painted optimism over the current and future state of the construction economy under the effect of the Trump administration trade tariffs. The One Big Beautiful Bill is seemingly a posi...

June Nonresidential Construction Materials Prices Up 2.5% Year-Over-Year, 43% Since February 2020
By ABC
July 18, 2025
WASHINGTON, July 16—Construction input prices increased 0.2% in June compared to the previous month, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Producer Price Index data. Nonresidential construction input prices increased 0.3%...

Nonresidential Construction Spending Down 0.2% in May
By ABC
July 3, 2025
WASHINGTON, July 1—National nonresidential construction spending decreased 0.2% in May, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data published by the U.S. Census Bureau. On a seasonally adjusted annualized basis, nonresidential spending totaled $1.237 tril...

Construction Futures: June 2025 Economic Roundup
By Construction Executive
June 27, 2025
What We Learned in June: Some Signs of Waning Momentum
Construction-specific economic data have started to flash a few signs of potential weakness. Both backlog and nonresidential construction spending declined for the month, and while nonresidential employment continues to grow...
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The Age of Uncertainty: Monitoring Construction Policy Shifts
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Overall nonresidential construction spending declined ever so slightly in April, with private spending down and public spending up.