Construction-in-progress numbers have rebounded among this year's Top Owners, but those numbers don't completely reflect owner confidence in an increasingly volatile market.

Uncertainty weighs as contractors across the region navigate the new normal of cost escalations, material and workforce shortages.

Midwest Contractors recover revenue to top pre-pandemic levels.

As supply chain disruptions threaten to shelve some projects completely, more owners are using professional services firms to help reconfigure limited staff resources and keep schedules moving forward.

With projects facing rising material costs, crunched schedules and labor shortages, project delivery firms say owners are finding themselves at a fork in the road when it comes to design-bid-build versus alternative delivery models.

As design firms in California and Hawaii roared ahead in 2021, Northwest firms continued to struggle with familiar issues.