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FMI Releases 2024 North American Engineering and Construction Outlook: Third Quarter

by GroundBreak Carolinas Staff on July 25, 2024

FMI recently released its 2024 North American Engineering and Construction Outlook: Third Quarter. According to the report, total construction spending is expected to reach $2 trillion in 2024, a 5% increase over 2023. However, this signals a slowing growth trend, with future increases likely to stabilize from 3% to 5% over the next five years….

Topics: Business
Construction Outlook, FMI

The U.S. Economy and the Carolinas at Mid-Year

by Bruce Yandle, Alumni Distinguished Professor of Economics Emeritus, Clemson University on July 8, 2024

Special to GroundBreak Carolinas: Dr. Bruce Yandle, Alumni Distinguished Professor of Economics Emeritus, Clemson University, shares economic insight for construction leaders in the Carolinas. Getting Started: The Current Picture With 2024 at the halfway mark, we find a national economy registering a low pulse-beat and an improved outllook on the inflation front. First quarter real…

Topics: Featured, People
Construction Outlook, economic outlook

Keith Poole of Trehel Offers Commercial Contractor’s Perspective on Markets & Trends

by GroundBreak Carolinas Staff on July 7, 2024

GroundBreak Carolinas is pleased to share thoughts and insights from key construction industry leaders in the Carolinas. Keith Poole, President and Chief Operating Officer of Trehel, offers a commercial contractor’s perspective as we enter the second half of 2024. What’s your outlook on the construction industry for the second half of 2024? If what we are…

Topics: Featured, People
Construction Outlook, Trehel Corporation

Looking for New Life in the National and Regional Economy

by Bruce Yandle, Alumni Distinguished Professor of Economics Emeritus, Clemson University on April 15, 2024

Every year April brings beautiful images of new life, but this time we are also getting positive readings on the U.S. and regional economies.  With the closing of 2023, we learned that real GDP growth for the nation perked along at a 2.5% rate, well above 2022’s 1.9% and a far cry from constant calls…

Topics: Featured, People
Construction Outlook, economic outlook

Annual NC Construction Conference in Raleigh Features Outlook from AGCA Chief Economist

by Carolinas AGC on March 15, 2024

While contractors are optimistic about the future and an economic recovery should continue, the construction industry should expect long-term challenges in finding workers. “Construction employment has stalled in North Carolina due to the labor shortage.  Nationally, the number of construction job openings is exceeding new hires and contractors are paying a wage premium for workers,”…

Topics: Business
CAGC, Carolinas AGC, Construction Outlook, Ken Simonson

McFarland Construction’s President Ben Wilhelm on 2024 Market Trends and Challenges

by Joan Krause on January 21, 2024

GroundBreak Carolinas is pleased to share thoughts and insights from key construction industry leaders in the Carolinas. Ben Wilhelm, President & COO of Charlotte-based McFarland Construction, offers his take on market trends as we enter 2024, and elaborates on one trend that he sees as both an “opportunity and a threat.” What is your outlook on the…

Topics: Business, People
Ben Wilhelm, Construction Market, Construction Outlook, McFarland Construction

The 2023 Year-End Economy and the Road Ahead

by Bruce Yandle, Alumni Distinguished Professor of Economics Emeritus, Clemson University on November 27, 2023

With horrible wars underway in the Middle East and Ukraine, a strong dose of compartmentalization is required to focus attention on the prospects for the economy.  But if we are to make a difference to those in devastated places, it will be necessary for us to make the best of our own situation, to try…

Topics: Business, Featured
Construction Outlook, Economic Forecast, economic outlook

Taking a Close Look at the Economic Situation: September 2023

by Bruce Yandle, Alumni Distinguished Professor of Economics Emeritus, Clemson University on September 25, 2023

With the arrival of September, football season and just three months to go before 2023’s books close, football fans are wondering which college teams in the reshuffling conferences will make it to the top 10, and recession watchers, looking at tea leaves and listening to Fed-speak, are trying to determine when and if the long-expected…

Topics: Business
Construction Outlook, Economic Forecast

The US Economy at Mid-Year: What about the Next Six Months?

by Bruce Yandle, Alumni Distinguished Professor of Economics Emeritus, Clemson University on June 2, 2023

At this 2023 mid-point, a close look at the U.S. economy reveals uncertainty, bumps in the road ahead, and an economy that is so shot full of federal government intervention and stimulus that it is difficult to determine what is real and what is artificial.[1] Some but not all of this is understandable.  After all,…

Topics: Business, Featured
Construction Outlook, economic outlook

The Fed Hits the Brakes and Construction Takes it on the Chin

by Bruce Yandle, Alumni Distinguished Professor of Economics Emeritus, Clemson University on November 27, 2022

News that October existing home sales fell once more, giving a period of decline dating back to January 2022, is a reminder that when the Fed hits the brakes, it is housing and the construction economy that feels the sharpest pain.  As National Association of Realtors chief economist Lawrence Yun put it: “More potential homebuyers…

Topics: Business, Featured
Bruce Yandle, Construction Economy, Construction Outlook, economic outlook

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