This 2021 report from JLL provides a useful tool to compare office construction fit-out costs across U.S. and Canadian markets relying on robust data collected by the company from several projects in the region. The analysis uses three different offices fit out styles and space configurations to assist the user to make better and more informed real estate decisions at the planning stage of the project. It suggests that while National average costs could increase by 3.5 to 5.5 percent over the course of 2021, salaries are forecast to keep rising at a steady pace in the range of 2 to 5 percent. The trends about how designs are adapting to the post pandemic world, are similar in both, Canada and the United States.
Keywords: Architecture/Engineering, Employee Productivity, Healthy Buildings, Market Sizing, Post-COVID-19