Optimism and apprehension: How US construction firms view 2025

Mitchell Keller Managing Editor, American Cranes & Transport

09 January 2025

The US construction market has been a model of resilience compared to global peers in recent years, and US contractors’ confidence coming into 2025 remains high. But uncertainty regarding trade and immigration policies supported by the incoming Trump administration have some worrying about labour and a pricing whiplash.

UK-based software firm Sage Group and the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC), a trade association for general contractors in the US with more than 22,000 members, released their annual outlook report (“A Year in the Balance: The 2025 Construction Hiring and Business Outlook”) alongside a live webinar…

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