Behind the Headline: Where Construction's Reset Is Actually Landing
29 Sept 2026
The Construction RESET Stage
The Construction RESET Stage
Barbour ABI's own data opens the RESET stage with an uncomfortable question: has the market actually turned, or does it just look that way from altitude? Award volumes are rising for the first time in three years — but not for everyone, and not evenly. Growth is concentrated in a shrinking number of ever-larger contracts, while the small and mid-sized end of the market keeps shrinking. Strip out one sector and the picture looks very different again. Ahead of Barbour ABI's roundtable later that day, this session puts the data on the table and asks who the stabilisation is actually reaching — and why a flat national headline describes almost nobody's real market.
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