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 | Professional engineering boards and chambers (NCEES/state PE boards, Ingenieurkammern, Engineers Ireland), building control authorities… | Per licensed individual or firm; per permit/planning application | public |
| reviews & sentiment | Public procurement performance/past-performance systems (e.g. CPARS in the US), employer-review platforms (Glassdoor), client satisfaction… | Per contract evaluation; per employee review | public |
| financial filings | Company registries (Companies House, Handelsregister, SEC/EDGAR for listed firms such as AECOM, Jacobs, WSP, Arcadis), credit bureaus (D&B… | Annual/quarterly per legal entity, with segment and backlog disclosure | public |
| waste & emissions | Environmental engineering consultancies producing EIAs and embodied-carbon assessments; environmental regulators' EIA registers; carbon… | Per project/EIA document; per material EPD; per site emission estimate | public |
| maintenance & asset condition | Engineering inspection consultancies, infrastructure owners (highway agencies, rail operators, water utilities); some national bridge/road… | Per asset per inspection cycle (condition rating, defect list) | public |
| pricing | Industry associations (ACEC, EFCA, VBI/HOAI-based fee tables), procurement bodies publishing tender awards, benchmarking vendors (Hackett… | Per discipline/grade hourly charge-out rate; per-contract award value | purchasable |
| employment & workforce | Firms' HR systems; national statistics offices (labour force surveys, SBS); salary survey vendors (Hays, Robert Walters, Deltek)… | Per employee/role internally; monthly or annual aggregates by occupation and… | purchasable |
| energy consumption | Building services (MEP) consultancies performing energy audits and simulations; energy performance certificate registries; ESCO clients | Per building per audit/model; metered half-hourly data where monitored | purchasable |
| transactional/sales | Engineering consultancies' ERP/project accounting systems (Deltek, Oracle Primavera/Unifier); public-sector clients' contract award records | Per project, per invoice/milestone, per timesheet line | partnership |
| sensor/IoT | Structural and geotechnical monitoring providers (instrumentation contractors, engineering firms' monitoring units), infrastructure owners | Per sensor per reading interval (seconds to hourly) per structure | partnership |
| geospatial/movement | Surveying and geotechnical arms of engineering firms, national mapping agencies, clients' GIS/BIM asset registers, point-cloud and aerial… | Per site survey, per scan/point cloud, per BIM model element | partnership |
| incident/safety/claims | Firms' HSE systems, professional indemnity insurers and brokers (Beazley, Aon, Marsh) holding PI claim data, national OSH regulators for… | Per incident/near-miss; per claim; aggregated loss ratios by discipline | partnership |
| booking/utilization/occupancy | Consultancies' timesheet and resource-planning systems; benchmarking programmes (Deltek Clarity, ACEC financial survey) | Per consultant per day/week billable hours; firm-level monthly utilization and… | partnership |
| quality & compliance testing | Materials testing and geotechnical laboratories, accredited inspection bodies, engineering firms' QA records, building control approvals | Per sample/test report; per weld, core, pile, or concrete batch | partnership |
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.