NIC MAP partners with Dodge Data & Analytics and BuildCentral to provide comprehensive construction pipeline data for the senior housing industry. This dataset offers detailed insights into construction projects for age-restricted properties across the country, covering key data points such as project type, status, costs, and more.
Pipeline Insight covers markets nationwide and is updated on a monthly basis.
Access to this data requires a subscription to Pipeline Insight, which is an add-on for Market Insight. To learn more about accessing construction pipeline data, please contact your NIC MAP Account Manager or email us at support@nicmap.com.
How do I view Pipeline Projects?
Site Detail Report
The Pipeline tab in the Site Detail Report includes a comprehensive list of projects in your market area. To toggle between the Dodge and BuildCentral Data Source, you can use the dropdown box located at the top of the tab. To view additional information about a project, like a project description and ownership contact information, click More Details.
Explorer
The Map Data section of Explorer includes a Pipeline layer that will map the location of all Dodge projects. Each project will be represented by a blue construction cone, and each cone is clickable to reveal more details about each project.
Pipeline Report Task
All Pipeline properties in each market area in your analysis can be extracted via the Pipeline Report Task, found in Utilities > Tasks.
Does Pipeline Data include field descriptions?
Descriptions for select fields in the dataset are included below.
Name: The name of the project.
Address: The address of the project.
Type: The type of construction being undertaken (New Construction, Expansion, etc.).
Target open: Targeted open date for the construction.
Stage: The current stage of the construction (Planning, Bidding, Deferred, etc.).
Hard Costs ($M): This is the value of the construction contract awarded to the general contractor to build the project (or the expected construction costs if prior to contract award). It is not the market value of the finished building. The contract value only includes the “hard” construction costs; it does not include “soft” construction costs such as design fees, nor does it include the value of the land. It is in millions.
Units: The number of units/beds included in the Senior Housing project.
Owner: The project owner is the person or firm who hires the architect, engineer or designer, approves the design and employs the contractor. This firm may or may not be the legal owner of the property or the structure. The fact that critical decisions are made by the firm designates them as the owner for our purposes.
Owner Link: The Owner's web address.
Distance from Site: The distance between the construction project and the analysis subject site. This is in miles.
What types of buildings are included in each subclass?
A subclass helps to categorize a building by its service offerings upon opening.
Active Adult: All single-family homes, cottages, and condominiums with no specialized services. Rental housing is not included in this category, only for-sale units. Projects are not equipped to provide increased care as the individual ages. May include amenities such as clubhouse, golf course, and recreational spaces
Senior Apartments: All senior rental housing with no specialized senior services.Independent: Tenants live in a shared setting with a central kitchen and dining room, extensive common areas, and activity spaces. Meals provided but no activities or daily living support services (such as bathing, dressing and toileting). Shared Dining services is the main indicator; also referred to as Congregate Living
Assisted Living/ALF: All senior housing with meals provided and daily living supportive services (such as bathing, dressing and toileting). Tenants need assistance but don’t need the 24-hour care of a nursing home. Alzheimer’s/Memory Care units also fall into this subclass.
Nursing Facility: For individuals that require 24-hour nursing supervision. Increased medical (Skilled Care/Sub-Acute Care/Medicare) and supportive services (Long-term care/Intermediate Care) provided in a more clinical environment.
Continuing Care: A senior complex providing the full continuum of care. Project must contain some type of senior housing where no specialized care is provided (Active Adult, Senior Apartments or Independent Living) AND NURSING* beds.*Projects containing combinations of senior subclasses which do not fall into the Continuing Care category (i.e. Senior Apartments and Assisted Living) shall be assigned to the subclass which represents the highest percentage of the total project.
Educational/Day Care: All non-residential senior center projects. Only includes freestanding centers dedicated to seniors. Recreational centers with only a portion of the space dedicated to Seniors are NOT included in this category or in Pipeline.
Unclassifiable: Cannot be allocated to one of the other categories, especially those in the early project stages (pre-planning & planning) which do not have sufficient information to assign to a category.
Mixed Use: Those reports that are primarily senior housing, but also have some large component of another building use.
What does each Construction Stage entail?
The project phases are the various stages in the planning cycle that a project will move through as it progresses. These range from pre-planning, which is the earliest stage before an architect has been selected, through the completed stage, to projects that have been abandoned by the owners.
Pre-Planning: The pre-planning stage is the earliest stage in the planning cycle.Projects reported at this stage do not have an architect associated with them.These projects may be conceptual in which an owner has announced an intention to build but has not yet hired an architect to produce the plans.For example, an owner of a piece of land may be thinking about building an apartment building on that land in the next couple of years depending upon market conditions.Typical projects in the pre-planning stage include large, mixed-use developments that may take several years to come to market.Projects in the pre-planning stage generally have the lowest probability of reaching the start stage and are the furthest away from ground breaking.
Planning: Projects reported at the planning stage have an architect associated with them who is starting to draw the schematic plans for the building.Projects in this stage are closer to ground breaking but still have a fairly low probability of starting.
Final Planning: Projects will go out for bids or construction will start within 4 months. At this stage, plans for a project have been or are about to be finalized. The project is moving towards final approvals. Once a project has reached the final planning stage, there is a high probability that the construction contract will be awarded.
Bidding: Once the plans for the project have been finalized, the project is put out to bid by general contractors. At this stage in the planning cycle, projects are very close to being awarded and have a very high probability of coming to market.
Underway: Projects are scheduled to start within 60 days or construction is already under construction.
Completed: A project will advance from underway to complete when its target completion date has passed.
Deferred: When owners decide to delay a project, it is placed in deferral. Reasons for deferring the start of a project may include problems with financing, design approvals, or deterioration in market conditions. Projects may be deferred at any point in the planning cycle from pre-planning to start.
Abandoned: If an owner decides to abandon a project all together, rather than defer the project, it will be placed in the abandoned category.