2025 Construction Industry Lookahead

About this episode

The episode features a discussion on the upcoming trends and forecasts for the construction industry in 2025.

Back by popular demand, "Build Me Up" invited FMI's Partner and Managing Director of Research and Analytics, Jay Bowman, and KA's EVP and COO Rich Jacobson back to chat! They join us each year as we look to see what the new year is going bring the built market . Jay specializes in construction spending forecasts, strategic planning, and research and analytics for the A/C/E industry. We recap our 2024 , talk fed rates and building material prices, how AI and tech fits into our world , and of course prediction s for 2025 ! Jay brings in the national perspective of what we can expect, and Rich gives a more focused, local approach of what is going on in the Midwest market.

People in this episode

Guests: Jay Bowman, Rich Jacobson

Topics covered

• construction industry
• market forecasts
• AI in construction
• building material prices

Keywords

• FMI
• strategic planning
• research and analytics
• fed rates

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Build Me

Places: Midwest

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