NAICS 236Subsector · 3-digitregional market2 market records

Construction of buildings

SoftwareConstruction Management Software 2362

This subsector comprises establishments primarily engaged in the construction of buildings. Buildings are distinguished by their primary function, such as residential, commercial and industrial. Establishments may produce new construction, or undertake additions, alterations, or maintenance and repairs to existing structures. The on-site assembly of precast, panelized, and prefabricated buildings and construction of temporary buildings are included in this subsector. Part or all of the production work for which the establishments in this subsector have responsibility may be subcontracted to other construction establishments - usually specialty trade contractors. — Statistics Canada, NAICS 2022A

Establishments · CanadaA: 48,208
Under 10 employeesA: 84%
Establishments · USA: 251,634
Employment · USA: 1,576,171
Payroll · USA: $124.1B

Size and shape

How many businesses there are and how small they are. Fragmentation is the first thing an entrant — or anyone selling software into this industry — needs to know, and it is one of the few things that is actually measured.

Canadian establishments by number of employeesA

1–431,44065%

5–99,15019%

10–194,3709%

20–492,3215%

50–996131%

100–1992040%

200–499850%

500+250%

Of 48,208 Canadian establishments with employees, 84% have fewer than ten — an industry of very small operators.

Where they areA

Ontario16,40834%

Quebec12,21625%

British Columbia8,36817%

Alberta5,20311%

Largest four provinces by establishment count. Establishments with employees only — sole operators with no payroll are not in this table, so in trades and personal services the true number of businesses is higher.

How many new establishments are still tradingA

Construction, US · opened 2020

83.2%

1 year

68.2%

3 years

56.5%

5 years

42.6%

10 years

opened 2015

Measured, not forecast: the share of US establishments opening in one year that were still active later. It counts good operators and bad ones together, which is exactly why it is the honest answer to “what are the odds”. It is for the whole sector rather than this market, and the ten-year figure comes from an older cohort because no younger one has reached ten years.

How businesses here compete

The structural profile of subsector 236, which every industry beneath it inherits. This is analyst judgment from how the subsector is organised — not research into this industry, and not a measurement.

regional competitionmedium capitalUNVERIFIED

Low barriers and thin margins. Working capital and bonding capacity, not equipment, decide how large a builder can get, and one bad job can erase several good years.

Who sets the price: Owners and developers through tender; residential builders take the housing market's price.
The software it runs on: Estimating, project management, scheduling and job costing.

Market screens and studies

Market-entry records filed along this branch of the hierarchy. A record at or beneath this code is about this industry; one above it is about something wider that contains it.

Operating businessScreenedfiled at 2361

Residential Home BuildingStructure decides

binding constraint: capital intensity

A builder finances land, permits and construction for eighteen months before a single dollar arrives, on a sale price set by a market that can move against them the whole time. Spec building is the purest version of that bet; custom building trades the price risk for client risk and a fixed-price contract signed before material costs are known. The one durable advantage is a land bank bought before the cycle, which is a capital position rather than a construction skill. The construction software serving this industry is screened separately at 2362 and 236.

NAICS 23614 vendors named12 sourced figuresOpen →

Software serving this industry

The vertical software markets filed along the same branch — who sells to these businesses and who they would have to displace — and then the generic categories every business buys whatever it does.

Vertical softwareScreenedfiled at 2362

Construction Management SoftwareOne thing must be true

binding constraint: incumbent vulnerability

Incumbent Procore

The most-cited vertical SaaS success story, and therefore the most thoroughly contested. Procore plus Autodesk have covered general contractor workflow end to end; the remaining gaps sit in specialty-trade workflows, which is where 238220 and 238160 lead instead.

NAICS 23626 vendors named6 sourced figuresOpen →

And what every business buys · 25 generic categories

Sold to every industry rather than this one, so they are filed against the software industry's own code. The same few vendors recur across most of them.

Companies in this industry · 12

Every company this research names that is filed here or beneath — the operators, and the vendors that sell to them — largest disclosed revenue first. The rank is within the company’s own six-digit industry.

Company	Filed under	Revenue	Rank
D.R. HortonNYSE:DHI	Residential building construction2361	$34.3B	1/7
ProcorePrivate	Non-residential building construction2362	$1.4B	1/5
BriqPrivate	Non-residential building construction2362	—	2/5
Brookfield ResidentialPrivate	Residential building construction2361	—	2/7
LennarNYSE:LEN	Residential building construction2361	—	3/7
Mattamy HomesPrivate	Residential building construction2361	—	4/7
MintoPrivate	Residential building construction2361	—	5/7
NVRPrivate	Residential building construction2361	—	6/7
PultegroupNYSE:PHM	Residential building construction2361	—	7/7
Sage Construction & Real EstatePrivate	Non-residential building construction2362	—	3/5
SitelinePrivate	Non-residential building construction2362	—	4/5
TrueBuiltPrivate	Non-residential building construction2362	—	5/5

Who works here

The occupations employed in Construction, most concentrated in it first. The share is measured against the whole sector, not this industry — the published cross-tabulation stops there.

Tagged to this industry

Managers in construction and facility operation and maintenance

Concentrated in this sectorA

Concrete finishers, tilesetters and plasterers One industry 94.3%

Bricklayers and insulators One industry 87.5%

Trades helpers and labourers One industry 80.7%

Carpenters and cabinetmakers One industry 79.9%

Plumbers, pipefitters and gas fitters One industry 79.8%

Roofers, glaziers, painters, decorators and floor covering installers One industry 73.7%

Contractors and supervisors, technical industrial, electrical and construction trades and related workers One industry 70.5%

Technical electrical trades and electrical power line and telecommunications workers Mostly one sector 60%

Managers in construction and facility operation and maintenance Mostly one sector 57.7%

Crane operators and water well drillers Mostly one sector 48.9%

These jobs are mostly done here. An operator in this industry is competing for them against others in the same industry, not against the whole economy.

And the jobs every business has

Building maintenance installers, servicers and repairers Across the economy 24.7%

Technical inspectors and regulatory officers Across the economy 14.4%

Technical occupations in electronics and electrical engineering Across the economy 12.7%

Legislative and senior managers Across the economy 10.4%

Administrative, property and payroll officers Across the economy 7.4%

Financial, insurance and related administrative support workers Across the economy 7.4%

Accounting, insurance and related business administrative occupations Across the economy 6.7%

Other technical trades Across the economy 6.1%

Office administrative assistants - general, legal and medical Across the economy 5.6%

Administrative services managers Across the economy 4.3%

Found across at least fourteen of the twenty sectors. But note the shape of this industry: 84% of establishments have fewer than ten employees, and at that size most of these roles are one person wearing several hats, or bought in from outside.

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Inside this industry

2 rows sit directly beneath 236, and 8 in all once every level is counted. Each has a base report of its own.

Code	Industry	Establishments · CA	What is known
2361	Residential building construction	39,641	Residential Home Building
2362	Non-residential building construction	8,567	Construction Management Software

Alongside it, under 23 Construction

Code	Industry	Establishments · CA	What is known
237	Heavy and civil engineering construction	9,163	Heavy Civil Construction Estimating & Operations Utility System Construction Land Subdivision & Development+2 more
238	Specialty trade contractors	100,227	FSM — Field Service Management Roofing Contractor Software Electrical Contractor Software+4 more