Sign companies, we’re about to fact check you. By a 12-to-1 margin, our recent State of the Industry respondents told us they expect recent healthy profits to spill over into an even more profitable immediate future. How does this expectation square with construction forecasting experts? Although nonresidential construction is anticipated by experts to continue to grow during 2019, that increase is anticipated to be more marginal than 2018 in most specific areas, and to slow even further in 2020. Though the economy in general is strong, a combination of many market forces are poised to rein in the rate of expansion. That’s the nutshell of the American Institute of Architects’ (AIA, Washington) nonresidential construction forecast by Kermit Baker.