Construction news and trends

22% of US Small Businesses Struggle to Pay Bills Due to Cash Flow
SMBs // September 10, 2024

Small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) often find themselves in a constant struggle to manage cash flow, focusing more on survival than growth. Many SMBs use outdated cash management practices, which leads to mounting pressures from delayed payments and inefficient processes. The PYMNTS Intelligence report “From...

Construction Spending Dips 0.3% in July Amid High Mortgage Rates
Economy // September 03, 2024

Construction spending decreased by 0.3% in July after remaining unchanged in June. Spending totaled $2.163 billion in July, down from the revised June estimate of $2.169 billion, the Census Bureau said in a Monday (Sept. 3) press release. The drop was greater than expected by...

Home Depot Looks for B2B Buffer Against Softening Consumer Spend
Earnings // August 13, 2024

Home Depot currently gets around half of its sales from professional builders and contractors. According to the company’s executives on Tuesday’s (Aug. 13) second-quarter 2024 earnings call, the world’s largest home improvement retailer will need to continue to win over a greater share of this...

This Week in B2B: Capturing Real-Time Intelligence’s Competitive Edge
B2B Payments // August 08, 2024

B2B operations frequently require a greater level of sophistication than their B2C counterparts. Payments, especially, are typically larger and more complex transactions and must mesh with monolithic, already-existing systems. That’s what makes the whole concept of digitization and the payoff that comes along with it...

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22% of US Small Businesses Struggle to Pay Bills Due to Cash Flow

September 10, 2024
Small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) often find themselves in a constant struggle to manage cash flow, focusing more on survival than growth. Many SMBs use outdated cash management practices, which leads to mounting pressures from delayed payments and inefficient processes. The PYMNTS Intelligence report “From Cash Flow Pain to Working Capital Gain: Automated AR/AP Solutions […]

Digital Payments Help Construction Firms Overcome Manual Misery

May 09, 2024
The construction industry is a critical one, but it has a giant problem: late payments. In a sector where cash flow couldn’t be more important to firms’ survival, slow and delayed payments in the construction space cost...

Late Payments Plague 100% of Construction Companies

December 06, 2023
Late business-to-business (B2B) payments are the bane of any accounts receivable (AR) department. The headaches caused by late B2B payments affect more than just the accountants, as the entire firm...

Contractors May Move to Modernize as Manufacturing Boom Spurs Construction Demand

April 14, 2023
Government incentives are spurring nationwide industry investment as manufacturers race to find space to fulfill demand.  As first reported last week (April 8) by the Wall Street Journal, the industrial real estate...

Quick Reads
Food Services and Healthcare Job Gains Ease Employment Concerns for Low-Income Consumers

October 04, 2024
The United States economy added 254,000 jobs in September, exceeding economists’ expectations and potentially mitigating some recent concerns about job prospects among the paycheck-to-paycheck consumer segment.    The gains in total nonfarm payroll employment also surpassed the average monthly gain over the previous 12 months, which was gauged at 203,000, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said […]

Construction Spending Dips 0.3% in July Amid High Mortgage Rates

September 03, 2024
Construction spending decreased by 0.3% in July after remaining unchanged in June. Spending totaled $2.163 billion in July, down from the revised June estimate of $2.169 billion, the Census Bureau...

Procore Seeks FedRAMP Authorization for Construction Management Software

July 16, 2024
Procore Technologies is working to authorize its construction management software with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP). The company has prepared tools, processes and methodologies to ready for...

Adaptive Raises $19 Million to Scale Construction Industry Financial Platform

July 15, 2024
Adaptive raised $19 million in a Series A funding round to scale its artificial intelligence-powered financial platform for businesses in the construction industry. The platform was launched in February 2023...