Heads or Tails: Deloitte’s 2026 Construction Industry Outlook

A new report from Deloitte, “2026 Engineering and Construction Industry Outlook,” identifies significant headwinds facing the industry in 2026, including persistent inflation, high interest rates, rising material costs, supply-chain disruptions and acute labor shortages that are tightening margins and stretching project timelines. Despite these challenges, there are bright spots—particularly strong demand tied to artificial intelligence–driven […]

Repricing Risk: How Inflation and Tariffs Are Reshaping Construction Insurance

For contractors, higher costs show up as tighter margins and delayed starts. For underwriters, they show up as a new exposure curve that’s harder to predict and more expensive to insure. What once was a straightforward pricing exercise based on historical loss data and replacement cost has become a constant recalibration of volatility, supply-chain uncertainty […]

All But Five States Had Construction Unemployment Rates Below 8% in December 2025

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5—The national December 2025 not seasonally adjusted construction unemployment rate was 5.0%, a 0.2% decrease from December 2024, according to a state-by-state analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data released by Associated Builders and Contractors. The analysis found that 60% of states (30) had lower estimated construction unemployment rates over the same period, 17 had […]