Electrical switchgear now averages close to a year from order to delivery, and large transformers take more than two years. That turns power equipment into one of the longest items on a construction schedule. Here is what it means for churches, hotels, and commercial owners planning a project.
More than four out of five construction firms say they cannot fill the craft positions their projects depend on. Labor scarcity has quietly become a design variable, and the decisions that absorb it best are made on paper, long before a contractor is asked to price the work.
