By Jason Dudas
Contractors are often dependent on the price of materials and labor when planning and completing a project. As the August Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data showed signs of a general decrease in inflation rate, pricing for final demand construction has been deviating from that of the overall economy. The accelerating rate of construction inflation is evidenced not only in the overall trend of specific products and materials, but also in the producer price index (PPI) for completed building types.