Watch on-demand: Key Trends in the Healthcare Facilities Market for 2024-2025

Join the Building Design+Construction editorial team for this on-demand webinar on key trends, innovations, and opportunities in the $65 billion U.S. healthcare buildings market. A panel of healthcare design and construction experts present their latest projects, trends, innovations, opportunities, and data/research on key healthcare facilities sub-sectors. A 2024-2025 U.S. healthcare facilities market outlook is also presented.

Market Data

Construction spending expected to rise, despite labor and materials snags

In the first half of 2024, construction costs stabilized. And through the remainder of this year, total cost growth is projected to be modest, and matched by an overall increase in construction spending. That prediction can be found in JLL’s 2024 Midyear Construction Update and Reforecast.

Healthcare Facilities

New download: BD+C's 2024 Healthcare Annual Report

Welcome to Building Design+Construction’s 2024 Healthcare Annual Report. This free 66-page special report is our first-ever “state of the state” update on the $65 billion healthcare construction sector.

Contractors

The average U.S. contractor has 8.4 months worth of construction work in the pipeline, as of June 2024

Associated Builders and Contractors reported today that its Construction Backlog Indicator increased to 8.4 months in June, according to an ABC member survey conducted June 20 to July 3. The reading is down 0.5 months from June 2023.

Market Data | Jun 26, 2020

5 must reads for the AEC industry today: June 26, 2020

Restoration of 1930s El Paso hotel completes and Arc offers tools, analytics for safe workplace re-entry.

Market Data | Jun 25, 2020

Commercial Construction Index drops amid Coronavirus pandemic, but contractors poised for near-term recovery

Contractors quickly prioritized worker health and safety, and 1 in 3 plan to hire more workers in the next 6 months.

Market Data | Jun 25, 2020

7 must reads for the AEC industry today: June 25, 2020

CDC to build the most advanced high containment laboratory in the country and architecture billings downward trajectory moderates.

Market Data | Jun 24, 2020

Architecture billings downward trajectory moderates

AIA’s Architecture Billings Index (ABI) score for May was 32.0 compared to 29.5 in April, but still represents a significant decrease in services provided by U.S. architecture firms.

Market Data | Jun 24, 2020

8 must reads for the AEC industry today: June 24, 2020

San Francisco's apartment market goes in reverse and WATG designs a solution for isolating without sacrificing social connectivity.

Market Data | Jun 23, 2020

National survey reveals pandemic's impact on college students' mental health, remote learning, families' income and more

Of 2,500 student respondents, 75% feel more anxious or stressed, 57% said they lost their summer jobs and 90% want to return to campus in the fall.

Market Data | Jun 23, 2020

7 must reads for the AEC industry today: June 23, 2020

Gyms are going bacnkrupt and leaving gaps in shopping centers and how hotels are trying to keep guests and employees safe.

Market Data | Jun 22, 2020

New House infrastructure package will provide needed investments in aging infrastructure, support economic recovery, and create jobs

The Moving Forward Act’s proposed $1.5 trillion in new investments will improve range of public infrastructure, creating needed demand for construction while making the economy more efficient.

Market Data | Jun 22, 2020

7 must reads for the AEC industry today: June 22, 2020

Construction employment rises from April to May in 45 states and the first building in the U.S. designed for post COVID-19 environment.

Market Data | Jun 22, 2020

Construction employment rises from April to May in 45 states, slips in 5

Rebound from April job losses reflects one-shot help from paycheck protection program loans and easing of stay-at-home orders, but cancellations and state and local deficits imply further cuts ahead.