Wood Prices Up 41 Percent, Concrete and Steel Steady
Producer price index (PPI) for softwood lumber is up over 41 percent since November 2020 whereas PPI for ready mixed concrete is up less...
- May 21, 2020
- 2 min
Building Beyond Code Saves Money
National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) undertook a study in 2017 to quantify the value of designing buildings to exceed the 2015...
- May 21, 2020
- 1 min
Costs of Disasters in U.S. Continue to Rise
According to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), there were 14 billion-dollar weather and climate disaster events in...
- May 20, 2020
- 1 min
Building material prices mixed since COVID downturn
According to the U.S. bureau of labor and statistics, changes in producer price indexes in basic building materials are mixed. Softwood...