Clichés are often true and it is the case that a picture can be worth a thousand words.

Below are six graphs recording 12-month moving averages of ConstructConnect ’s nonresidential construction starts.

When the value of the current month is higher than for the same month a year ago, the line will turn up; when lower, it will dip.

String a couple of similar positive or negative directional changes together over several months and one has a trend.

And that’s what the graphs are designed to do, show improving or deteriorating trends in a dozen major and more granular categories of construction work.

Click here to download the Construction Industry Snapshot Package – May 2016 PDF.

Click here for the May 2016 Industry Snapshot article, ConstructConnect’s Increase in May Starts Stuck to the Seasonal Pattern.

Click here for the Top 10 Largest Construction Project Starts in the U.S. – May 2016.

U.S. Nonresidential Construction Starts ‒ ConstructConnect
(12-month moving averages)

Source and Chart: ConstructConnect.

U.S. Commercial & Institutional Construction Starts ‒ ConstructConnect
(12-month moving averages)

Source and Chart: ConstructConnect.

U.S. Retail & Private Office Building Construction Starts ‒ ConstructConnect
(12-month moving averages)

Source and Chart: ConstructConnect.

U.S. Hospital/Clinic & School/College Construction Starts ‒ ConstructConnect
(12-month moving averages)

Source and Chart: ConstructConnect.

U.S. Road/Highway & Water/Sewage Construction Starts ‒ ConstructConnect
(12-month moving averages)

Source and Chart: ConstructConnect.

U.S. Bridges & Miscellaneous Civil Construction Starts ‒ ConstructConnect
(12-month moving averages)

Source and Chart: ConstructConnect.