Even with gloomy news of client cutbacks, results of a new survey of 300 owners are giving construction managers some hope that more in-house project management roles would be outsourced.
At the annual convention of the Construction Management Association of America in San Diego, some 1,000 attendees learned Oct. 4 that at least half of owners who responded to the study, done jointly by CMAA and industry management firm FMI, reduced internal staff in the last two years; 18% noted cutbacks of more than 20%. Nearly one-third of respondents to the survey, which CMAA says is "across a wide range of markets and regions," report staff layoffs.