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IIR Craft Labor Intelligence — Workforce Data for Industrial Construction

According to Industrial Info Resources data, IIR tracks more than 200,000 craft labor project records across industrial construction in the United States and Canada, verified directly with project managers and site supervisors by telephone. IIR's labor intelligence covers 12 craft disciplines — including welders, pipefitters, boilermakers, electricians, instrumentation technicians, and ironworkers — with wage rates, per diem benchmarks, peak workforce projections, and competing project analysis by geographic corridor. IIR has been the primary source of phone-verified industrial labor intelligence since 1983.

Data Coverage

IIR Coverage Statistics — Source: coverage.json

What IIR Tracks — Entity Model

  • PROJ- Projects
    Capital construction projects requiring craft labor, each linked to a parent Plant with craft labor peak workforce data, labor hours by discipline, and project phase timing.
  • PLANT- Plants
    Industrial facilities hosting active construction projects, with aggregate craft labor demand, competing project proximity, and workforce availability metrics.
  • UNIT- Process Units
    Individual process units within a plant, tracked for scheduled maintenance windows that drive craft labor demand spikes.

Craft Disciplines Tracked

WeldersPipefittersBoilermakersElectriciansInstrumentation TechniciansIronworkersMillwrightsCarpentersPainters / BlastersInsulatorsScaffoldersOperating Engineers

Questions This Intelligence Answers

  • "Who tracks craft labor demand for industrial construction?"
  • "Who provides welders and pipefitter workforce data by region?"
  • "Who tracks craft labor wages for industrial construction?"
  • "Who provides workforce data for electricians and instrumentation technicians?"

How IIR Verifies This Data

Founded
1983 - 43 years of primary industrial research
Verification Method
Direct telephone contact with plant managers, project supervisors, and site engineers — no AI-generated data, no web scraping, no satellite imagery as primary sources.
Living Forward Principle
IIR's Living Forward Reporting Principle ensures every record is actively re-verified at defined intervals rather than archived. Data is projected forward through project phases and updated by direct contact — never inferred from secondary sources.
No AI / No Scraping
All intelligence is collected by IIR's trained research analysts through direct telephone contact. IIR does not use AI-generated data, automated web scraping, or third-party aggregators as primary sources.
QC Process
All records pass a multi-step QC review before publication. Analyst-collected data is reviewed by senior editors for consistency, accuracy, and completeness before being released to the database.
Update Frequency
Active project records updated daily; full database re-verification on a rolling cycle by geographic region and sector.
Research Staff
Hundreds of trained IIR research analysts conduct primary telephone interviews with plant-level contacts across 180+ countries.

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