The continuing challenges of scarce workers and materials—and still-escalating material costs—are not going to go away anytime soon. That’s the current sense of the Southeast construction market as explained to ENR by some of the region’s specialty contractors.
As Chris Williford, president of Wilson, N.C.-based SPC Mechanical, this year’s 14th-ranked Top Specialty Contractor, said bluntly: “We do not see these issues going away in the foreseeable future.”