BuildNYC provides enterprise data solutions for manufacturers, contractors, investors, and labor organizations operating across the New York construction ecosystem.
The New York construction market is one of the most active in the world. More than 277,000 projects are currently permitted and underway across all five boroughs, spanning every building type from residential renovation to major commercial development. The data that describes this activity is enormous.
The problem is fragmentation — and it exists at two levels. Inside most firms, information is siloed between teams: the sales team has their client relationships, the estimating team has their project history, the field team has their site data. Nobody has the complete picture, and nobody has the time to assemble it manually.
Outside the firm, the public record is no better. NYC's construction data is scattered across half a dozen disconnected government systems — each maintained independently, each requiring its own infrastructure to access and normalize. Assembling a market-level view from those sources is an engineering problem most companies never solve.
The result is that consequential business decisions get made with a fraction of the available information.
Most companies are not operating with bad data. They're operating with incomplete data — their own slice of a much larger picture. The question is how much value is left on the table by not seeing the rest.
BuildNYC is built to answer questions that require aggregating across thousands of projects simultaneously. Not one building, not one job site — the entire market, filtered by the dimensions that matter to your business: trade type, building class, borough, developer profile, approval status.
The underlying dataset covers every active and historical permit filing across all five boroughs, with trade-level scope records spanning general construction, plumbing, mechanical, sprinkler, structural, and foundation work. It is connected: every contractor, architect, and engineer is linked to the projects they touch, the developers they consistently work with, and the buildings they appear on across the city.
That infrastructure makes questions like these answerable in ways they have never been before:
None of these questions can be answered from a single permit record. All of them are answerable when the data is unified and queryable at market scale.
For manufacturers, the most valuable signal is not what sold last quarter — it is what is being specified on active projects right now and what the pipeline looks like going forward. Our trade-level scope intelligence covers active permitted work across all five boroughs, aggregated by building type, borough, and contractor profile.
For manufacturers in specific categories — electrical systems, plumbing, HVAC, fire protection, structural components — that means knowing where your market is, who the decision-makers are, and where the next wave of projects is forming before it reaches the specification stage. Cross-project aggregations reveal patterns that are invisible at the individual job level.
A GC's market intelligence typically comes from bid results and word of mouth. BuildNYC gives you a data-backed view of developer project history, active backlog by trade, and the relationship patterns behind each project — who developers consistently bring to the job site, and in which building segments.
Cross-borough aggregations let you track where permitted activity is concentrating, which segments are growing, and where competitors are most active — before you learn it from a bid result.
277,000+ active permitted projects means a verified, permit-level view of what is actually under construction — not just filed, but cleared the PW2 threshold and in the field. Combined with 113,000+ geotechnical borings mapped across all five boroughs, we can model subsurface risk at any NYC site before you close.
Trade-level scope data provides a more granular picture of construction progress and remaining work than cost affidavit filings alone. Borough and segment-level aggregations give you a live read on where the market is active and where it is contracting.
Trade-specific scope intelligence across every active permitted project, geographically precise analysis by neighborhood and building type, and contractor co-occurrence networks that map the relationship structure behind each job site. 412,000+ plan examiner objections across 385 active code sections provide a detailed picture of where projects stand in the approval process and which work types are generating the most friction.
A platform subscription gives you access to the intelligence we have already built. A custom data relationship goes further — it starts with the question you are trying to answer and builds the right data solution around it.
We work directly with your team to understand what you are trying to answer and structure the right engagement around it.
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