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• Apr 2, 2025.

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The 2025 first-quarter crane count holds steady, reflecting the market’s overall hesitation to ...

• Apr 2, 2025.

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The latest quarterly cost report (QCR) charts construction trends in 16 cities throughout North ...

• Feb 25, 2025.

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The RLB Global Annual Report 2025 demonstrates how our 4,500 people worldwide are improving project ...

• Jan 8, 2025.

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The latest QCR charts construction trends in cities throughout North America; new research indicates...

• Nov 13, 2024.

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Providing clients with the confidence they need to make crucial, timely decisions that drive the ...

• Oct 7, 2024.

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Offering clients the level of certainty they need to make critical, real-time decisions to ensure ...

• Oct 4, 2024.

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Construction Cost Increase Is the Lowest It’s Been in Three Years; up 1.07% , compared to ...

• Oct 4, 2024.

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The construction landscape holds steady across North America, as the rate of decrease competes with ...

• Jul 10, 2024.

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Offering clients the level of certainty they need to make critical, real-time decisions to ensure ...

• Jul 10, 2024.

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Offering you the level of certainty you need to make critical, real-time decisions to ensure the ...

• Jul 2, 2024.

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Construction costs are up 1.12% from Q1 and up 5.41% year-over-year. This edition of our QCR ...

• Jun 6, 2024.

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Our industry is evolving rapidly to meet the modern needs of the built environment: to be digitally ...

• Apr 23, 2024.

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Providing detailed local construction market intelligence and data In 2023, Latin America and the ...

• Apr 2, 2024.

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Offering clients the level of certainty they need to make critical, real-time decisions to ensure ...

• Apr 2, 2024.

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Offering clients the level of certainty they need to make critical, real-time decisions to ensure ...

• Apr 2, 2024.

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Construction costs are up 1.29% from Q4 and to 5.85% year-over-year. This edition of our QCR ...

• Apr 2, 2024.

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Crane count reports 9% decrease from previous edition and 18% decrease year-over-year The beginning ...

• Mar 19, 2024.

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Selecting the best procurement strategy for a project is fundamental to its success; it will affect ...

• Jan 12, 2024.

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Offering you the level of certainty you need to make critical, real-time decisions to ensure the ...

• Jan 7, 2024.

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Construction costs are up 1.53% from Q3 and to 5.28% year-over-year. This edition of our QCR ...

• Dec 13, 2023.

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Each year it feels like the world is getting faster – and we have the data to prove it.  It ...

• Dec 12, 2023.

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There are many factors involved in the recent evolution of healthcare, but one thing is for certain:...

• Dec 12, 2023.

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The pandemic changed our approach, and the hospitality industry is no exception. It was three years ...

• Dec 11, 2023.

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In the past three years, the entire construction industry has learned a lot about managing projects ...

• Oct 17, 2023.

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Construction costs are up 1.55% from Q2; compared to 6.49% year-over-year. This edition of our QCR ...

• Oct 17, 2023.

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Latest Crane Count Shows Net Decrease with High Project Completion Rate There is a slight decline in...

• Jun 28, 2023.

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Offering clients the level of certainty they need to make critical, real-time decisions to ensure ...

• Jun 28, 2023.

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Offering you the level of certainty you need to make critical, real-time decisions to ensure the ...

• Jun 28, 2023.

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Concerns about material costs, COVID-19, supply chain logistics and extreme weather events have ...

• Jun 26, 2023.

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New Quarterly Cost Report charts construction trends for 14 key markets in the North American ...

• May 29, 2023.

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When I began my career in the built environment, over 30 years ago, I never imagined that our ...

• Apr 25, 2023.

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Between the pandemic and the current economic situation, businesses of all kinds are rethinking the ...

• Apr 16, 2023.

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As the business world increasingly embraces the importance of Environmental, Social and Governance ...

• Apr 15, 2023.

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With a dramatic downturn in passenger traffic in early-to-mid 2020, the industry has observed a ...

• Apr 14, 2023.

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These days there just doesn’t seem to be enough architects to handle the number of projects out ...

• Apr 9, 2023.

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New Quarterly Cost Report provide an eye-opening perspective on the North American construction ...