Build Local, Price Global

The quantum price leap of structural steel in 2004 signaled the end of one era of construction pricing and the beginning of another. Basic construction materials became global hot commodities as the huge populations of India and China entered the modern consumer world with voracious appetites for automobiles and new high-rises, not to mention dams, bridges and airports. Full Story >>

Cost Confusion

A collapsing housing market, the subprime crisis, a weakening dollar and rising costs of crude oil are leaving construction costs in flux and making preconstruction for many firms an even bigger challenge. Full Story >>