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Louis Molinini is the leader of the America Market of the World Real Estate Investment Firm JLL. Opinions are typical of the author.
In 2025, an evolutionary wrap of climate events and policy changes will create new pressures for project sponsors.
With a new administration by 2025, new economic and commercial policies can alter the construction industry. But despite changing the economic, environmental and technological conditions, the perspectives of 2025 for the construction sector are positive.
Louis Molinini
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Although net growth in 2025 is expected, it is likely that growth will be unequal among types of real estate. For example, the start of the Office and Core Industrial project has slowed down, while data centers, health care and advanced manufacturing projects are strong. The most recent reduction in interest rates will not solve all the problems of the construction industry, but has created a fundamental time. So what has brought to this modestly optimistic, but uncertain perspective for 2025?
One year in retrospective
As has been pointed to JLL Recent 2025 Outlook of U.S. ConstructionIn the first three quarters of 2024, the material prices were leveled, the start of interest rate cuts and, in general, incredibly strong performance by the construction industry. In fact, once the numbers are installed, it is expected that by 2024 it will show an increase of 7% of the expense in the construction of more than 2023.
In 2025 it will probably have more modest benefits. An indicator is that the Architecture billing index He has reported the contraction of the architectural industry for nine of the last 12 months and the beginnings of the project have been in minimum records. These impacts will appear in the construction spending data over the coming months.
However, interest rate cuts and the largest origin of the loan should be a stroke of start round by the end of 2025 and promoting the growth of net spending during the year. In a welcome, the growth of construction costs was almost flat in 2024. However, our report finds that the growth of costs will be between 5% and 7% by 2025. The increases will vary according to materials, reflecting The shocks of the demand for natural disasters, the booming sectors and the vulnerability to the vulnerability. Change economic policy.
Hugging sustainability and innovation
From the perspective of the tendency of restriction, environmental sustainability will continue to be a long -term and immediate priority in construction projects. Advanced technologies, including artificial intelligence, Internet devices of digital things and twins, promote new design, construction and management approaches to improving efficiency, conserving resources and creating value.
The conservation of resources will be especially important. Regardless of the priorities of the Federal Government, many corporations, together with state and local governments, will continue to invest in decarbonization initiatives.
Many corporate owners and occupants have invested in energy efficient construction operations for decades. As employees are increasingly waiting for their employers to provide sustainable jobs that promote well -being and productivity, Jll has planned A scarcity of 70% of low carbon buildings by 2030.
Adopting sustainability and innovation, green construction practices, energy efficiency and reducing carbon footprint is no longer “pleasant”, it is imperative to hire and withholding talents and to fulfill corporate commitments. with decarbonization.
It is reasonable to wait in 2025 that design and sustainable operations will continue to configure the requirements of the project. Advanced data centers, health and manufacturing, in particular, have adopted sustainable design and operations as integral to control operating costs and growth support, and are unlikely to abandon their conservation strategies.
Combat obsolescence with resilience
As has been pointed to JLL’s opportunity but obsolete Report, approximately $ 1 trillion could be needed in world -class capital expenses to get assets of the Legacy office to current standards. The United States and Europe Together with 78% of the potentially obsolete office space.
Obsolescence is an opportunity to maintain the recent impetus of the construction industry, facing retrofated challenges. For selected office properties, adaptive reuse is another option. Some cities and investors are aimed at office properties unused with the appropriate characteristics for housing conversion.
When developing strategic plans, assets owners, investors and authorities in the city will have to consider the many facets of obsolescence (age, design, location, regulatory considerations, life cycle of the type of product and much more) to maximize their investment performance.
Navigation through a complex environment
Although the impact of any new regulatory, fiscal and commercial policy change will not be heard for some time, the decisions of the short -term policymakers in 2025 can affect the chains of work expenses, infrastructure and supply. Owners and developers will have to anticipate shifts and be prepared for possible project delays. The construction industry will have to navigate the new political priorities as long as it goes on to AI automation.
Next year it will also require that construction companies adapt to the evolving economic conditions, the regulatory changes and the dynamics of the market. Taking advantage of the visions obtained by recent challenges, construction professionals can develop strategies for resilience and flexible approaches to the management of projects and risks.
With the lowest interest rates, moderate inflation and constant economic activity, the perspectives of 2025 are positive for the construction sector. However, the shocks of natural disasters and the potential changes of trade policy are likely to increase prices through a wide range of materials by 2025, and the impact may be greater for sustainable construction materials. In demand sought by some sectors of the industry.
The construction industry is ready for growth, but this opportunity involves uncertainty. In this complex landscape, one of the best strategies to ensure that a project achieves its desired results is to bring together a well -rounded multidisciplinary team and take advantage of project management technology to reduce the risk and risk and streamline the delivery of the project.
