Injections of federal funding, coupled with pent-up demand from the pandemic shutdowns, created a robust construction market in 2022 and 2023. In 2024, signs of market softening began and continues into 2025. The Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) reports that its backlog indicator, which reflects the work commercial and industrial contractors have coming in the months ahead, shows a drop in monthly backlog from 8.9 months in 2023 to 8.3 months in 2024 and has fluctuated around that number throughout the first half of 2025.
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