Insights
Short updates for leaders hiring operations, preconstruction and estimating teams.
Operations
Three in four contractors hiring a superintendent say they’re struggling to find one. Here’s what that looks like on the ground in the Carolinas, and what the firms that are hiring well do differently.
Market
Data center spending is up almost 60% in a year and Atlanta has overtaken Northern Virginia. If you build anything else in the Southeast, you’re now competing with hyperscale projects for the same people.
Preconstruction
On paper, demand for estimators is flat. In practice, 72% of contractors hiring one say it’s hard. The job has changed, and the people who can do the new version of it are scarce.