Gary Tulacz

Sustainability has been about buildings that help the environment. But COVID-19 has focused attention on healthy buildings.

Rocked by the worldwide pandemic and plunging oil prices, the global construction market attempts to cope.

Professional services firms have been affected by COVID-19, but clients are now relying on them to advise on what comes next.

Many firms say CM-at-Risk and Design-Build will aid in recovery of a construction market hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Failures of numerous major international competitors have firms focused more on the bottom line than on the top line.

Geopolitical tensions and economic nationalism are now posing a threat to the slowly recovering global design market.

Professional services companies expand offerings through M&A to meet project owner demands for a broader range of expertise.

Design-Build and Construction Management-at-Risk are assuming an increasing percentage of the overall market.

The market has hit its tenth year of growth, one of the longer expansions in history. But firms don’t see any signs of a cooling off.

Those who say the design services sector can’t continue to expand like this have predicted a reckoning for nearly four years.

The market for sustainable buildings continues to grow, but the industry now has many more standards to choose from.

The global construction market has turned a corner toward growth, but national and regional issues make firms wary.

The markets continue to grow, but design firms are concerned about infrastructure funding, tariffs and staff shortages.

The global construction market has taken a series of hits over the past couple of years.

The slowdown has international designers scrambling.

The construction market has enjoyed steady growth for several years. Most industry executives believe this growth will continue through 2016. But one sector that has been leading the recovery, petroleum, has suddenly hit a roadblock as plummeting oil prices have resulted in project postponements.