Construction Project Management

Construction-related economic data and trend analysis from the Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc.

Data on construction employment, spending, materials, and construction fact sheets by state.

Statistics on the region's construction contracts, housing permits, and housing prices.

Economic news and housing reports, housing data, housing policy, and material prices.

News and research from a mostly national perspective. A Research Update Archive of monthly reports for the current year is available, with new updates appearing around the 15th of each month.

Quarterly market reports on major office and industrial markets across the United States.

Statistics on new work, additions, alterations, or maintenance and repairs.

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.

An in-depth guide to using LCA in design and constrction.

BEES measures the environmental performance of building products by using the life-cycle assessment approach specified in the ISO 14040 series of standards.

This Federal Highway Administration website offers a primer on LCCA; fact sheets; case studies; and downloadable software for LCCA analysis.

Advocates the use of Value Methodology (VM) in construction, manufacturing, and process improvement.

"Life-cycle cost analysis (LCCA) is a method for assessing the total cost of facility ownership. It takes into account all costs of acquiring, owning, and disposing of a building or building system. "

Tools for improving the life-cycle quality and economy of constructed facilities and manufacturing.

Discusses methods of weighing the value of the coastal environment against the cost of potential development.

This database, hosted by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, provides individual gate-to-gate, cradle-to-gate and cradle-to-grave accounting of the energy and material flows into and out of the environment that are associated with producing a material, component, or assembly in the U.S.

This paper by two Georgetown University professors concludes that "cost-benefit analysis cannot overcome its
fatal flaw: it is completely reliant on the impossible attempt to price the priceless values of life, health, nature, and the future."

"Transportation Cost and Benefit Analysis: Techniques, Estimates and Implications, is a guidebook for quantifying the full costs and benefits of different transportation modes. This 500-page+ document is a comprehensive study of transportation benefit and costing research, and a guidebook for applying this information in planning and policy analysis."

Value Methodology is used to perform necessary project functions at the lowest cost. Courtesy of SAVE.