By Craig Webb, President, Webb Analytics Doing a takeoff has always been more than just quoting prices. It was your opportunity to discuss prices, find drawing and structural errors, spot code violations, recommend improvements, and above all strengthen your ties to the customer. The good news is that tech advances and artificial intelligence will make the actual process of doing takeoffs far quicker and easier. The problem is that these advances sometimes could cost you busi

By Craig Webb, President, Webb Analytics Construction supply is a team sport, and building that team remains frustratingly hard. What are your hiring prospects in 2026, and how do you need to adjust your ways if you hope to bring in the best people? To answer these questions, we reached out to four leading executive recruiting firms: SnapDragon Associates, The Misura Group, GRN Hudson, and LBM Executive Recruiting (LBM ER) . Here are excerpts of what they said. The Search Pr

DEALERS 84 Lumber -- Christopher Gould -- Multi-Family Components Ace Hardware Corp. -- Mark Blickenstaff -- Field Sales Manager Allram Lumber -- Rick Buckwheat -- Construction Consultant/OSR Allram Lumber -- Ike Glaze -- Sales Rep Arnold Lumber -- Valerie Mello -- Sales and Inventory Specialist Builders FirstSource -- Daniel Braun -- Sales Trainee Builders FirstSource -- Donald Crumpler -- VP Supply Chain Operations Builders FirstSource -- Jason Kindle -- Truss Designer, Mul

LBM facilities acquired (blue pins), newly opened (green) or closed (red) YTD 2025. Source: Webb Analytics The 2025 M&A market is ending quietly, with only about two-thirds as many deals as last year and only three-quarters as many buyers. But the deals that did take place often were enormous, involving 1.5 times as many facilities as were acquired last year and four times more than in 2023. As of Dec. 10, the Webb Analytics Deals Database shows a total of 1,797 facilities ha