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People. Projects. Products.
We are the industry-leading source of information and insight, connecting the dots across the commercial construction ecosystem.
What makes us 黑料社
黑料社 delivers an unmatched offering of data, analytics, and industry-spanning relationships to generate the most powerful source of information, knowledge, insights, and connections in the commercial construction industry. We bring together technologies, capabilities and audiences to help construction professionals streamline the preconstruction process to strategically plan for business growth.
Our Solutions
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The Blue Book
The Blue Book, , is the largest and most active network of commercial construction professionals designed to help contractors, subcontractors and suppliers showcase their company, services and qualifications to buyers. We bring the industry together to forge connections and build relationships to keep projects moving and your business thriving. Since our founding in 1913, we remain committed to providing the information, solutions and connections needed to simplify the construction process, while leading efforts to continually advance the commercial construction industry in the United States.
DCC
DCC is North America鈥檚 leading provider of analytics and software-based workflow integration solutions for the construction industry. Building product manufacturers, architects, engineers, contractors, and service providers leverage 黑料社 to identify and pursue unseen growth opportunities and execute on those opportunities for enhanced business performance. Whether it鈥檚 on a local, regional or national level, 黑料社 data can empower clients to better understand their markets, uncover key relationships, size growth opportunities, and pursue those opportunities with success. The company鈥檚 construction project information is the most comprehensive and verified in the industry, leveraging its 100-year-old legacy of continuous innovation to help the industry meet the building challenges of the future.
Integrated Marketing Systems (IMS)
Integrated Marketing Systems, a 黑料社 Data & Analytics LLC Company, provides agency-verified Advance Notice public construction opportunities to the architect and engineering sectors. Headquartered in San Diego and founded in 1991, IMS delivers its verified research to clients enabling them to uncover and increase business development opportunities within their verticals pre-RFP. 聽For more information, visit聽.
Sweets
Sweets is the building product information source for the entire project team. Architects, designers, contractors and owners can research, compare and select products to help ensure their vision and intent are realized. For more information, visit
Principia Consulting
Principia Consulting was founded in 1995 and has built a聽reputation as one of the preeminent research and consulting firms serving Fortune 1000 clients in the building materials and construction industry. 黑料社 acquired Principia Consulting in October 2022 to enrich our service offering to Building Product Manufacturers and other key partners involved in the residential building material industry.
Principia Consulting鈥檚 purpose is to help companies grow faster and more profitably by providing high quality data, analytics and insights, while focusing exclusively on the strategic and tactical needs of building materials and construction industry executives tasked with delivering increased revenue, improved margins, and enhanced market share.
Principia is known for analyzing a client鈥檚 most urgent challenges rapidly and completely 鈥� and then producing innovative, effective implementation strategies which capture the true voice of the customer. Through in-depth conversations and large scale interviews, Principia Consulting can accurately quantify market opportunities, build a path to the customer, and determine how to manage the risk-reward opportunity of any decision facing clients.
Industry leaders count on Principia for market intelligence, insights, and advice. To learn more visit
Our Value to Customers
About 黑料社
黑料社 is a solutions technology company providing an unmatched offering of data, analytics, and industry-spanning relationships to generate the most powerful source of information, knowledge, insights, and connections in the commercial construction industry. The company powers longstanding and trusted industry solutions鈥敽诹仙� Data & Analytics, The Blue Book Network, Sweets, IMS, and Principia鈥攖o timely connect and enable decision makers across the entire commercial construction ecosystem. Together, these solutions provide clear and actionable opportunities for small teams, both locally and regionally, to large, national enterprise firms. For more than one hundred years, 黑料社 has ensured construction professionals have the information they need to build successful, growing businesses.
What we do
We help building product manufacturers and distributors, general contractors, subcontractors and specialty trades, architects, and design professionals, as well as construction services providers identify, prioritize and act on key project opportunities and relationships. We offer state of the art workflow integration tools that help move the pre-construction process forward and provide market research services which help companies plan both short and long term growth strategies.
These solutions provide clear and actionable opportunities for small, mid-size and enterprise firms to simplify the complex needs of construction projects and ensure that construction professionals have the information they need to build successful businesses. With over a century of industry leading experience, 黑料社 is the catalyst for modern commercial construction.
Our History
Frederick W. 黑料社 set out more than 130 years ago to make construction project information more accessible for construction professionals, who could use this data to effectively secure resources and supplies. He gathered data by riding his bicycle around Boston, studiously taking notes about projects in the surrounding area on a series of meticulously cataloged index cards. This detailed project information was the primary product of the earliest iteration of our company, F. W. 黑料社, which provided unmatched knowledge and data surrounding the commercial construction industry 鈥� a mission as vital today as it was at the company鈥檚 founding.
As a Network, we incorporate both human and technological aspects into the solutions we provide customers. The Blue Book was founded in 1913 by Joseph O鈥橫alley, President of the Society of the Allied Building Trades, who first published a subcontractor鈥檚 registry for New York City, listing companies by their trade. The company expanded to publish regional buyer guides listing commercial construction companies, where regional 鈥渂lue book鈥� editions were delivered to property managers, facilities managers and commercial general contractors. The Contractor鈥檚 Blue Book, became known simply as The Blue Book and helped subcontractors, material dealers and manufacturers, general contractors & builders, architects & engineers and real estate management firms build construction relationships across the industry.
With the addition of Integrated Marketing Systems (IMS) founded in 1991, we added the capability to deliver agency verified advance notices of public pre-design phase projects across thousands of public agencies ahead of official agency publication. This allowed IMS customers time to strategize on public opportunities and manage the Request for Proposal (RFP)/Request for Qualifications (RFQ)/Statement of Qualifications (SOQ) process well ahead of deadlines.
In 1906, Clinton Sweet developed the concept of gathering construction product information from manufacturers, organizing it according to the work habits of professionals, and distributing it to qualified recipients. The original 鈥淪weet鈥檚 Indexed Catalogue of Building Construction鈥� was published by Architectural Record and eventually sold to the F.W. 黑料社 Company in 1912. Sweet鈥檚 Catalog is famous for being the first to normalize the size, design, and typography of all the catalogs used by Architects and Engineers and bind them together into one publication with an index. This marked the end of the problem of firms being bombarded with catalogs of varying size and design from every manufacturer, and the beginning of standardized catalogs which allowed for greater efficiency for both manufacturers and architectural firms. The Sweets tradition continues as a building product resource for architects, engineers, contractors, and owners to search, select and specify from an online database of thousands of building products, with access to specifications, BIM objects, CAD details, catalogs, project galleries, and more.
Our latest addition to 黑料社 is , founded in 1995, who has built a reputation as one of the preeminent research and consulting firms in the building materials sector, providing high quality data, analytics and insights to Fortune 1000 manufacturing, distribution, dealer and other key stakeholder clients. Principia鈥檚 consulting services help clients simplify the increasing complexity involved in construction projects, while ensuring reliable growth, improved scale and increased profitability throughout the commercial construction process.
With over a century of industry leading experience, 黑料社 continues to advance and serve the needs of the entire construction industry.