What data actually exists about this industry, who typically holds it, at what granularity, and how obtainable it is. Public means openly published; purchasable is sold by a vendor; partnership needs a bilateral deal; exclusive is effectively locked up by one party.
| Data category | Who holds it | Granularity | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| registry/licensing/permits | Municipal building-control and highway authorities (scaffold and hoarding permits, excavation permits), trade-qualification registers (e.g… | Per permit / per licensed firm or operative | public |
| employment & workforce | National statistics offices and labour ministries, construction social-insurance/levy funds (e.g. SOKA-BAU, CITB), site access-control and… | Monthly sectoral aggregates; per-worker per-site shift records in access systems | public |
| reviews & sentiment | Trade-directory and vetting platforms (Checkatrade, MyBuilder, MyHammer, Trustpilot) | Per review per contractor, mostly small-works firms | public |
| financial filings | Company registries (Companies House, Handelsregister), credit bureaus (Creditsafe, Dun & Bradstreet) with construction-sector risk scoring | Annual accounts per legal entity, plus payment-behaviour scores | public |
| incident/safety/claims | Occupational safety regulators (HSE, national labour inspectorates), employers' liability and CAR insurers, main contractors' HSE systems | Per reportable incident / per claim; aggregated by trade and cause (falls from… | public |
| waste & emissions | Waste-transfer and C&D waste registries at environment agencies, licensed waste carriers, contractors' ESG reporting | Per waste-transfer consignment / per project tonnage; annual firm-level… | public |
| production output | National statistics offices (construction output and turnover by NACE class), industry federations | Monthly/quarterly sector aggregates, by region | public |
| pricing | Cost-data publishers (RSMeans, BCIS/RICS, Sirri, Baubedarf indexes), national statistics offices' construction cost indices, tender-portal… | Unit rates per work item (e.g. m² scaffold, m³ concrete) and monthly index… | purchasable |
| transactional/sales | Specialist subcontractors (scaffolding, foundation, concrete, steel-fixing firms), main contractors' procurement systems, construction ERP… | Per contract / per invoice / per work package, with progress-billing lines | partnership |
| inventory & supply chain | Scaffolding and formwork rental fleets, equipment-hire companies, builders' merchants supplying specialist subcontractors | Per asset / per depot, daily stock and on-hire position | partnership |
| sensor/IoT | Telematics and site-monitoring vendors (Trackunit, Hilti ON!Track, tower-crane and pile-driver OEMs), IoT scaffold-tag providers | Per machine/tool, event-level to hourly | partnership |
| geospatial/movement | Site survey and machine-control vendors (Trimble, Leica), drone-survey providers, geotechnical borehole databases at geological surveys | Per site point cloud/survey epoch; per borehole log | partnership |
| logistics & freight movement | Hauliers delivering scaffold/formwork/rebar, contractors' delivery-management systems (site logistics booking platforms) | Per delivery slot / per shipment to site | partnership |
| weather-dependent metrics | National met services, contractors' delay/weather-standby logs, insurers assessing weather claims | Daily per site (lost-day records) against gridded weather observations | partnership |
| booking/utilization/occupancy | Equipment- and scaffold-rental companies, plant-hire marketplaces | Per asset per day on-hire/off-hire utilisation | partnership |
| quality & compliance testing | Materials testing laboratories, concrete cube/pile-integrity testing firms, building-control inspectors, certification bodies | Per test specimen / per structural element per project | partnership |
| maintenance & asset condition | Scaffold and formwork owners' inspection records, statutory equipment-inspection bodies (TÜV, LOLER inspection providers) | Per asset per inspection event (e.g. weekly scaffold inspection tags) | exclusive |
Compiled by the TriData research system from public registers, industry structure and regulatory reporting obligations; refreshed as the underlying catalogue grows. Look up the code itself in the NACE code finder.