Construction job totals fell in Arizona and New Mexico but continued to be the fastest growing sector in Nevada over the past year, according to data recently released by the three states.
While the Southwest construction market isn’t projected to suffer through another downturn, the results of ENR Southwest’s Specialty Contractors Survey and comments from several leaders of specialty contracting firms suggest that talk of a return to boom times any time soon is premature and unwarranted.
Rosendin Electric is one of the busiest electrical contractors in the Southwest, but the confidential nature of its work precludes the firm from talking about many of its largest projects.
Six years ago, Presbyterian Healthcare Services included a plug-n-play chassis when it built its five-story Presbyterian Rust Medical Center Hospital in Rio Rancho, N.M.
The job market in the Southwest is looking much better than it did a year ago, with Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada all showing employment growth year-over-year when comparing June 2015 to June 2014 according to numbers provided by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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