30 ARCHITECTURAL RECORD NOVEMBER 2014 perspective stats Data from McGraw Hill Dodge Analytics Construction activity in the higher-education sector is MARKET FOCUS beginning to slowly rebound as the stock market improves HIGHER-EDUCATION CONSTRUCTION and college and university endowments, along with gifts from alumni and other benefactors, grow. Higher-Education Starts by Region In addition to U.S. total and 2014 forecast figures Top Metro-Area Markets NORTHEAST MIDWESTSOUTH WEST TOTAL U.S. FORECAST Ranked by total higher-education $MILLION construction starts 1/2014 through 8/2014 REGION $MILLIONS 16 1 NEW YORK CITY 692 2 BUFFALO, NY 317 12 3 WASHINGTON, D.C. 293 4 BOSTON 260 5 CHICAGO 229 8 4 Princeton Neuroscience Institute & Peretsman-Scully Hall; Princeton, New Jersey; Rafael Moneo Architects (page 112) 0 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 1 1 12 13 14 The Dodge Index for Higher- Top 5 Design Firms Top 5 Projects Education Construction Ranked by higher-education construction Ranked by higher-education construction 8/2013–8/2014 starts 1/2011 through 8/2014 starts 1/2013 through 8/2014 INDEX (2005 = 100) $252 MILLION 180 160 1 Perkins+Will PROJECT: New York City College of Technology 140 New Academic Building 120 100 2 ZGF Architects ARCHITECT: Perkins Eastman 80 LOCATION: Brooklyn, NY 60 N 40 3 Jacobs $251 MILLION 20 0 A S O N D J F M A M J J A PROJECT: University of Buffalo School of Medicine 2013 2014 4 Ayers Saint Gross and Biomedical Sciences ARCHITECTS: HOK, Foit-Albert Associates LOCATION: Buffalo, NY The index is based on seasonally adjusted data for U.S. higher-education construction 5 Goody Clancy starts. The average dollar value of projects in 2005 serves as the index baseline. $218 MILLION PROJECT: University of Maryland Health Sciences MOMENTUM INDEX DIPS Facility III ARCHITECTS: HOK, Design Collective, Jacobs, In September, the Dodge DODGE MOMENTUM INDEX Melville Thomas Architects Momentum Index fell 0.7%, U.S. COMMERCE DEPARTMENT INDEX (2000 = 100) LOCATION: Baltimore to 155.8. Despite the drop— 200 400 $191 MILLION the third in a row—the index PROJECT: Jackson Laboratory for Genomic is up 8% versus this time 150 300 last year, after 13% growth 1/2015 Medicine in the first half of 2014. ARCHITECTS: Tsoi/Kobus & Associates, Centerbrook 100 200 LOCATION: Farmington, CT DUCCIO MALAGAMBA The Dodge Momentum Index is a leading indicator © of construction spending. The information is derived from first-issued planning reports in McGraw Hill MONTHLY DETAIL MILLION 50 100 $155 Construction’s Dodge Reports database. The data 9/2014 –– 9/2015 lead the U.S. Commerce Department’s nonresidential PROJECT: 20 Washington Road, spending by a full year. In the graph to the right, the Princeton University index has been shifted forward 12 months to reflect 0 0 ARCHITECT: KPMB Architects its relationship with the Commerce data. 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 1 1 12 13 14 15 LOCATION: Princeton, NJ PHOTOGRAPHY: McGraw Hill Dodge Analytics tracks projects from predesign through construction to capture hard construction costs, square footage, and other key statistical information..