2027 Construction Industry Outlook

Growth is the goal. Are your financial systems built to support it?

BREAKING GROUND ON FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

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What’s driving growth in the construction industry?

Aprio and Intuit teamed up to survey 200 construction leaders and discovered they have growth firmly in their sights. But there’s a disconnect between where construction businesses are headed and the financial processes, technology, and resources that support them. Explore the decisions construction leaders are facing:
  • Updating financial systems to better serve business needs
  • Using AI to improve financial visibility and operational efficiency
  • Maximizing trusted advisors to support informed decisions
Discover how your peers are building growth and gain actionable insights to strengthen your strategy.

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By the numbers — Aprio

By the numbers

Explore the data, benchmark your business,
and see where construction leaders are
focusing next

Still manually move data between their financial systems

Have had a reporting error or a missed deadline

Are piloting AI in their financial or operational workflows

Plan to further invest in AI in the next 12–24 months

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Meet the leaders behind the Outlook

Patrick Ball

Intuit Leader | Director, Technology Advisory

Patrick Ball

Patrick is Aprio’s Intuit Practice Leader, a Director in Technology Advisory, and an Intuit Advisory Partner Council Member. He partners with organizations that want to get the most out of their Intuit ecosystem—whether that means enhancing their current QuickBooks Online (QBO) environment or strategically upgrading to Intuit Enterprise Suite (IES).
Patrick takes a holistic view of his clients’ technology stack, evaluating and aligning the right third-party applications to assure QBO or IES works with their business, not against it.

Chavon Wilcox

Partner, Audit | Construction Industry Leader

Chavon Wilcox

Chavon Wilcox brings more than 24 years of experience advising CEOs, CFOs, and owners across the construction industry. As a trusted advisor, she delivers assurance*, business and individual tax, and strategic advisory services tailored to the complex needs of construction companies.
She partners closely with general contractors, subcontractors, specialty trade contractors, homebuilders, and architectural firms to strengthen financial performance, improve operational efficiency, and support long-term growth.

Melanie Geist

Partner, CAAS | San Antonio and Austin Office Leader | Construction

Melanie Geist

Melanie works with entrepreneurs who want to strategize and grow their businesses, as well as family businesses that want to plan for the future and develop actionable succession plans.
She specializes in income tax planning for closely held businesses, as well as general accounting and tax planning. Melanie often helps clients and strategic partners dip below the $12 million estate tax threshold. She also works with her team to generate ERC credits of up to $1 million for a number of clients as well as recommend cost segregation studies to help clients defer up to $1 million in annual income taxes.

About the Outlook

Aprio commissioned this Outlook, with support and cofunding from Intuit®, to put data behind the issues construction leaders are experiencing including where the growth is, what is holding it back, and how leaders are leveraging technology and advisors to help. Findings are drawn from a 16-minute online survey of 200 U.S. construction-industry leaders at companies with $5 million to $500 million in annual revenue, conducted with ROI Rocket, an independent market research firm, and fielded July 13 to 23, 2026. Margin of error for the total sample is plus or minus 6.9% at the 95% confidence level.

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