The Jobsite Your Competitors Can't Staff

The biggest construction boom in a generation is landing in rural counties in Virginia, Texas, Iowa, and Arizona, and the contractors winning that work aren't figuring out the labor market after the contract is signed. They have the supplier network, the market intelligence, and the infrastructure in place before the bid goes out. On projects bid without local labor-market intelligence, actual labor costs routinely run 12–20% over the estimate. Here's how leading contractors close that gap.