Construction Management Research Resources

Inflation can be defined as the overall general upward price movement of goods and services in an economy. BLS has various indexes that measure different aspects of inflation.

Information on current prevailing wages in the construction industry.

ENR publishes both a Construction Cost Index and Building Cost index that are widely used in the construction industry.

Posted by the California Department of Transportation.

Provides a price index that can be used both to track price changes associated with highway construction costs, and to convert current dollar expenditures on highway construction to real or constant dollar expenditures.

Free access to this quarterly report, courtesy of the construction firm Rider Levett Bucknall.

A weekly update posted by the US Energy Information Agency.