CIRT Sentiment Index Report
A CIRT exclusive webinar held on Thursday, May 20, 2021, Jay Bowman, managing director of research & analytics, and Ron Magnus and CIRT President, Mark Casso, facilitated a group discussion and explored CIRT data and provided a broader picture of economic, financial and industry dynamics that are shaping today’s E&C environment that may be prime for future quarterly Sentiment Index reports. WATCH THE WEBINAR HERE.
The CIRT Sentiment Index seeks to provide timely, authoritative, and forward looking insights into complex design and construction markets as well as a view on the direction of the overall U.S. economy. In addition, each quarter includes topical issues of importance to the A/E/C community to provide input and to give a voice to CIRT’s members on matters of interest.
| CIRT Sentiment Report | Overall Index | Design Index |
| 2021 | ||
| 2nd Quarter - Just Released | 79.1 UP! | 83.9 UP! |
| 1st Quarter | 55.0 UP! | 64.8 No Change |
| 2020 | ||
| 4th Quarter | 54.2 UP! | 64.8 UP! |
| 3rd Quarter | 52.1 UP! | 49.3 UP! |
| 2nd Quarter | 21.6 DOWN | 39.8 DOWN |
| 1st Quarter | 63.6 UP! | 62.7 UP! |
| 2019 | ||
| 4th Quarter | 57.6 DOWN | 60.9 DOWN |
| 3rd Quarter | 64.9 DOWN | 63.2 DOWN |
| 2nd Quarter | 65.0 UP! | 70.1 DOWN |
| 1st Quarter | 64.8 DOWN | 70.8 DOWN |
| 2018 | ||
| 4th Quarter | 66.3 DOWN | 73.4 UP! |
| 3rd Quarter | 70.7 DOWN | 73.0 DOWN |
| 2nd Quarter |
74.9 DOWN | 78.3 DOWN |
| 1st Quarter | 76.8 UP! | 85.4 UP! |
| 2017 | ||
| 4th Quarter | 54.8 DOWN | 56.5 DOWN |
| 3rd Quarter | 57.1 DOWN | 65.7 UP! |
| 2nd Quarter | 62.4 DOWN | 64.5 DOWN |
| 1st Quarter | 62.7 UP! | 66.8 UP! |
| 2016 | ||
| 4th Quarter | 50.4 DOWN | 49.6 DOWN |
| 3rd Quarter | 51.8 DOWN | 58.4 DOWN |
| 2nd Quarter | 54.7 UP! | 56.9 DOWN |
| 1st Quarter | 53.8 DOWN | 61.3 UP! |
| 2015 | |
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| 4th Quarter | 57.6 DOWN! | 62.0 DOWN! |
| 3rd Quarter | 58.5 DOWN! | 65.1 UP! |
| 2nd Quarter | 59.0 DOWN! | 60.8 DOWN! |
| 1st Quarter | 62.2 UP! | 62.6 UP! |
| 2014 | ||
| 4th Quarter | 60.9 DOWN | 61.4 DOWN |
| 3rd Quarter | 64.3 DOWN | 65.0 DOWN |
| 2nd Quarter | 65.6 UP! | 64.4 DOWN |
| 1st Quarter | 63.9 UP! | 65.9 UP! |
| 2013 |
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| 4th Quarter | 60.2 DOWN | 62.1 DOWN |
| 3rd Quarter | 63.3 UP! | 67.5 UP! |
| 2nd Quarter | 61.9 UP! | 65.4 UP! |
| 1st Quarter | 59.1 UP! |
57.4 UP! |
| 2012 |
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| 4th Quarter | 59.0 UP! | 56.3 DOWN |
| 57.0 DOWN | 56.5 DOWN | |
| 59.7 DOWN | 61.1 UP! | |
| 59.8 UP! | 59.8 UP! | |
| 2011 |
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| 51.2 DOWN | 55.0 UP! |
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| 3rd Quarter |
52.9 DOWN | 59.3 UP! |
| 2nd Quarter | 59.1 UP! | 57.5 UP! |
| 1st Quarter |
56.9 UP! | 55.2 |
| 2010 | ||
| 4th Quarter |
51.6 DOWN | |
| 3rd Quarter | 53.9 DOWN |
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| 2nd Quarter | 57.8 | |
| 1st Quarter | 55.0 | |
| 2009 | ||
| 4th Quarter | 48.2 | |
| 3rd Quarter | 50.1 | |
| 2nd Quarter |
50.6 | |
| 1st Quarter | 39.1 |