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Any construction professional who has been in charge of estimating or tracking a project’s costs in the past years has lost sleep due to material price volatility. Wild building material price swings can skew well-thought-out project estimations, causing property owners to get more than they bargained for. Moreover, go modular.
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9.9 * trillion estimated in global construction output by 2025. Concrete rebar (59% higher than a year ago), fabricatedsteel (65% higher), and imported plywood (82% higher) show the strongest price growth in September 2021 compared to 12 months prior. New approaches create new jobs. Rise of Technology. State of the industry.
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