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Peter Forella

Market Intelligence

  • Continuous market tracking + research enable us to identify patterns and trends in the various local construction sectors
  • Identification of market patterns and trends and the timely application of that knowledge can make an enormeous strategy difference
  • Forella Group's researchers collect and disseminate relevant construction market data and intelligence, including escalation and productivity data and others factors driving material, equipment, labor and overall project costs.
    We assess the impact of various construction markets and evaluate patterns and trends for our internal consulting teams.


Articles and Publications

  • Escalation Tracker, 1st Quarter 2012, local construction market data published by the Forella Group, LLC
  • Escalation Tracker, 4th Quarter 2011, local construction market data published by the Forella Group, LLC
  • Escalation Tracker, 3rd Quarter 2011, local construction market data published by the Forella Group, LLC
  • Fragile Economy Yields Potential, Commonwealth Contractor, an Associated Builders and Contractor publication, January 2011
  • Integrated Project Delivery, Commonwealth Contractor, an Associated Builders and Contractor publication Interview.
  • High Technology Changes Face of Construction, Washington Business Journal.
  • Solving the Labor Shortage Crisis, a feature article in Builder and Contractor, (Associated Builders and Contractor's National pub).
  • Changing the Face of Labor, Washington Business Journal.
  • Out-of-Town Firms Have Changed the Rules of the Real Estate Game, Washington Business Journal.
  • New Technologies Coming to Construction: Robotics and Other Innovations Headed Your Way, a feature article in Builder and Contractor, (Associated Builders and Contractors National publication).
  • Foreign Countries Supply Construction Workers to U.S., Old Dominion Scoop, (Associated Builders and Contractors Virginia publication).
  • Three Part Series on Exposures from Defects and Hazards of the Built Environment, Virginia Lawyers Weekly
  • Diagnosing & Correcting Defects, Washington Business Journal.
  • Internet Technologies: the Shape of Things to Come, AIANOVA News.
  • Women, Minorities Seen Moving Into Construction: Consultant Urges Shift in Training Goals, Washington Post interview. Also carried nationally by UPI.
  • UPI interview taped for national affiliates.
  • Brief Interview: WMAL, Washington, DC.
  • Local Channel 16, interviewed Mr. Forella and three other members of the Private Industry Council.
  • Interviewed by Washington Post reporter Amy Joyce for article, In Construction's Hot Season, Workers Have Evaporated.