CIRT Sentiment Index Report
CIRT and FMI hosted a webinar on Thursday, September 21, 2023 focusing on the key findings and issues from CIRT’s 3Q CIRT Sentiment Index Report, and how the results fit into broader economic/market analysis and trends. You can watch the recorded webinar HERE. A passcode is needed: "3XL&.TKp" (copy & paste the characters within the quotes, which are not part of the passcode.)
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 |
| 2023 | ||
| 3rd Quarter - JUST RELEASED AUG 2023 | 59.7 UP! | 68.5 No Change |
| 2nd Quarter | 52.8 DOWN | 68.5 UP! |
| 1st Quarter | 53.3 UP! | 66.8 UP! |
| 2022 | ||
| 4th Quarter | 51.0 DOWN | 57.1 DOWN |
| 3rd Quarter | 51.4 DOWN | 59.4 DOWN |
| 2nd Quarter | 64.1 DOWN | 76.0 DOWN |
| 1st Quarter | 73.2 DOWN | 81.5 DOWN |
| 2021 | ||
| 4th Quarter | 74.9 DOWN | 83.4 DOWN |
| 3rd Quarter | 79.7 UP! | 86.8 UP! |
| 2nd Quarter | 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 |
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.