ConstructConnect announced today that the latest month’s volume of construction starts, excluding residential work, was $32.6 billion (green shaded box, Table 3 below), an increase of +2.3% versus March’s figure of $31.8 billion (originally reported as $30.8 billion).
Amidst so much bad economic news, arising from the coronavirus pandemic, the slight increase in nonresidential starts month-to-month strikes a sweet chord. With winter being left behind, April is the time of year when on-site building activity normally perks up nicely. Some of that usual springier step was apparent even in the current extraordinary circumstances.
