Last Year’s August Teemed with Mega Projects

ConstructConnect announced today that the latest month’s volume of construction starts, excluding residential work, was $31.4 billion (green shaded box, Table 4 below), a little better than flat (+1.2%) versus July’s figure of $31.0, originally reported as $28.6 billion. The sizable positive revision to the previous month’s number was due to about evenly spread increases in warehouse, bridge, power, and marine work.

The accompanying table records the top 10 project starts in the U.S. for August 2020.

Clichés are often true and it is the case that a picture can be worth a thousand words.

The second episode of AEC TechTV is a package filled with timely stories from the architecture, engineering, and construction technology domain. The program 01:10 International BIM standards and the UK BIM Framework, Paul Wilkinson 08:00 COVID-19 and construction, Aarni Heiskanen 12:02 COVID-19 and AEC, Paul Doherty 20:52 Connex BIM mobile viewer, Nicholas Holst 31:10 DigiBuild, Robert Salvador 37:28 2020 Digital Construction […]

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