Specialty Contractors Industry Profile

Report Page Length: 10-12
Last Quarterly Update: 12/25/2023
SIC Codes: 17
NAICS Codes: 238
Chapters Include:
Industry Overview Trends & Challenges Industry Forecast
Quarterly Industry Update Call Prep Questions Website & Media Links
Business Challenges Financial Information Glossary & Acronyms
View Full Sample Add To Cart

Excerpt from Specialty Contractors Industry Profile

Companies in this industry contract to perform construction work in a wide variety of trades, including site preparation, concrete, electrical, HVAC, plumbing, and painting. Major companies include APi Group, Comfort Systems USA, EMCOR Group, Performance Contracting, and Quanta Services (all based in the US), as well as Bilfinger (Germany) and Skanska (Sweden).

Global revenue for construction work, including specialty contracting, exceeds $7 trillion per year and is expected to reach about $15 trillion by 2030, according to Statista. The top employers in the construction industry include the US, Japan, Russia, and Mexico, according to NationMaster. Most specialty contractors focus on a single local or regional market, but some large companies operate internationally.

The US specialty contracting industry includes about 460,000 establishments (single-location firms and units of multi-location firms) with combined annual revenue of about $875 billion.

COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE

Demand is driven by new residential and nonresidential construction activity, as well as corporate profits and local government budgets. The profitability of individual companies depends on accurate project bids and efficient operations. Most specialty contractors earn revenues from fixed price contracts, and companies must estimate total costs for projects. If actual material prices or labor costs differ from the estimates and cannot be recovered through change orders, profitability could be reduced. Large companies have advantages in being able to offer a variety of services over a geographically diverse market at competitive prices. Small companies can ...

 
View Full Sample Add To Cart Return to the Industry Profile Menu

Related Profiles

Here are a few profiles related to Specialty Contractors that you also might be interested in viewing:

Would you or your company benefit from having unlimited access to First Research's industry intelligence tools?

Learn More About Subscription Options