New construction companies: a lead list for suppliers
Auspector ·
From September 27 to October 27, 2026, 13,026 new construction company records entered our newly opened businesses section in the United States and 2,318 in the United Kingdom — in both countries, more than in any other of the 14 sectors we measure. Across all construction records, 94.5% in the US and 89.3% in the UK carry a phone number.
What does a new construction company buy first?
A builder setting up opens most of its supplier accounts around the first job. The usual list:
- Materials: a trade account at a builders’ merchant or building supply yard — credit terms, delivery to site, a named contact at the counter.
- Equipment rental (plant hire in the UK): mini excavators, skid steers, access platforms, scaffolding, generators, site cabins and fencing — usually hired job by job before the firm buys its own.
- Tools, PPE and site safety: power tools, hard hats, boots, hi-vis, fall protection, signage, first-aid kits, safety training for the crew.
- Insurance: liability on site, the works in progress, plant and tools, and cover for the crew once the first people are hired (see commercial insurance leads).
- Accountants and software: bookkeeping and payroll, estimating, quoting and invoicing, job costing.
- Vans and fuel: a van or pickup, fuel cards, vehicle tracking.
- Site services: dumpsters or skips, portable toilets, temporary fencing, security.
Once the first job is under way, those accounts exist. A supplier who calls after that is asking the builder to switch, not to choose.
How many are there, and how many are new?
Our database holds 537,928 construction company records in the United States and 108,720 in the United Kingdom. The 13,026 and 2,318 new ones of the last 30 days are 3.9% of all new records in each country. The six markets we focus on:
| Country | Construction records | New, 30 days | Rank of 14 sectors | Phone | Website information |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 537,928 | 13,026 | 1 | 94.5% | 56.1% |
| United Kingdom | 108,720 | 2,318 | 1 | 89.3% | 55.0% |
| France | 73,100 | 1,953 | 2 | 87.2% | 43.8% |
| Türkiye | 75,266 | 1,163 | 4 | 74.3% | 32.7% |
| Germany | 77,482 | 1,102 | 3 | 90.0% | 62.4% |
| Spain | 48,376 | 846 | 3 | 83.9% | 41.2% |
By new records, construction ranks first of the 14 sectors in the United States and the United Kingdom, and second in France, third in Germany, third in Spain and fourth in Türkiye. Across all 35 countries we measure, 51,154 new construction records arrived in the same 30 days; Canada, another priced market, received 2,505 and Australia 942.
Where are they?
| City | Construction records | New, 30 days | Phone | Website information |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 7,609 | 74 | 92.8% | 49.7% |
| Los Angeles | 4,020 | 88 | 93.8% | 63.3% |
| Houston | 3,615 | 37 | 93.5% | 63.8% |
| Chicago | 1,589 | 15 | 94.0% | 61.0% |
| San Antonio | 1,465 | 10 | 92.9% | 68.5% |
| Jacksonville | 1,330 | <5 | 92.1% | 59.5% |
| Phoenix | 1,325 | 9 | 91.9% | 69.7% |
| Dallas | 1,248 | 43 | 93.8% | 65.8% |
| Austin | 1,242 | 51 | 92.0% | 69.6% |
| San Diego | 1,220 | 9 | 93.4% | 71.6% |
| Charlotte | 1,110 | 17 | 92.3% | 71.3% |
| Columbus | 1,000 | 10 | 91.3% | 58.3% |
| Town | Construction records | New, 30 days | Phone | Website information |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| London | 7,457 | 93 | 85.0% | 60.9% |
| Birmingham | 949 | <5 | 75.9% | 48.3% |
| Bristol | 697 | 8 | 77.8% | 60.1% |
| Glasgow | 536 | 6 | 84.5% | 62.7% |
| Leeds | 515 | <5 | 81.0% | 56.5% |
| Liverpool | 496 | 5 | 84.7% | 58.1% |
| Manchester | 414 | 10 | 80.9% | 58.7% |
| Sheffield | 366 | <5 | 86.9% | 59.8% |
| Ilford | 346 | 7 | 87.3% | 51.4% |
| Northampton | 343 | 5 | 87.2% | 51.6% |
| Leicester | 338 | 6 | 83.7% | 51.2% |
| Southampton | 331 | <5 | 79.2% | 58.0% |
Among the US cities in the table, the most new records went to Los Angeles (88), New York (74) and Austin (51); among the UK towns, to London (93), Manchester (10) and Bristol (8). In California, 555 new construction records arrived in the same 30 days; the state and county pages for California, Texas and Greater London break the figures down by city and town. Country totals: construction companies in the United States and in the United Kingdom.
Can you reach them?
Most can be phoned: 94.5% of US construction records and 89.3% of UK ones have a phone number. 56.1% and 55.0% have website information; where there is a site, it usually shows whether the firm does extensions and renovations or commercial fit-outs, how large its jobs are and which area it covers — enough to pick the right opening line. Records with a phone but no website information — 40.1% in the US, 37.5% in the UK — are the market for web designers and for software sold over the phone.
Two cautions. Figures are record counts, and a firm that works across several areas can have more than one record: de-duplicate the export by phone number before the call team starts. And rules on unsolicited calls and messages differ by country and channel, with the obligation on the sender — check them with your own counsel before a campaign.
What to open with
- Building materials: the account and the first delivery, not the catalogue — a credit limit agreed this week, delivery to site, one named contact.
- Equipment rental: a quote for the first job — what they need, for how long, delivered and collected. A rate card for regular hire can follow.
- Safety: a starter kit sized to the crew — PPE, fall protection, signage, first aid — plus the safety paperwork a main contractor may ask a new subcontractor for.
- Insurance: a review before the first contract is signed — what the client or main contractor asks for, and what is not covered yet.
- Accounting and software: the set-up rather than the feature list — chart of accounts, quote and invoice templates, payroll for the first hires.
Builders spend the working day on site. Keep the first call short, time it for early morning or the end of the day, and follow up with the offer in writing. Records carry coordinates, so a depot or branch can rank new builders by distance in a spreadsheet and start with those inside its delivery area.
Building the list
- Category: Construction company, General contractor, Contractor, Home builder, Custom home builder, Building firm, Builder. Roofers, electricians, plumbers and other trades are separate categories and are not in these figures — add them if you sell to trades too.
- Area: country, then state, county or city. A location filter returns only records whose address names that place, and part of the new construction records carry no city yet, so a state or city count can come out lower than the country count suggests. Both counts are free to see.
- Time: arrived in the last 30 days.
- Channel: phone number on record for a call team; website information if you want to read up before calling.
- Watch: save the search and new matches arrive by email every day, while the accounts are still being opened.
Searching and counting are free on every plan, so the monthly number for your territory costs nothing to check (pricing). A credit is used when you open a record’s details for the first time, and an export counts as opening; one credit opens one newly opened business or five established ones, and an opened record never costs a credit again. Exports are CSV or XLSX with a stable ID per record, so a re-import updates rows instead of duplicating them. A record carries name, category, address, phone, web address and coordinates; there is no email column and no named-person column. How to turn the list into meetings is in selling to newly opened businesses.