New Projects Leads Report (NPLR) is a construction projects leads report.
It details early information on the majority of the proposed residential and commercial construction projects in Washington State. (We do not cover heavy construction projects.)

85-90% of these projects are in the Puget Sound area.

Each 14-day report details 700 to 900 new individual Washington State projects.
The status of projects that we show In Planning or in SEPA is constantly changing, so you will see follow-up reports on many of them.
Permitting status information is published one time, and the project is dropped.

Each report gives a snapshot of the new activity on the 800 or so projects that recorded changes of some sort in that 14-day period. (Out of 20,000-25,000 projects that are in process in this area)

New reports are published and emailed to subscribers 26 times each year (every other Friday).

Reports are emailed so as to be on your computer the following Monday at 6 am.

Our report’s layout gives a unique at-a-glance © review of:

• All key project and contact information,
• Each project,
• The full report

(You might need to print the report out to better see this feature)

This layout allows you to quickly scan the report for:

• The names of owners, developers, general contractors or architects that you might have worked with before, who are now doing a new project,
• New projects of interest, and
• A second look at desired projects you may have forgotten.

As you identify them, we provide the exact key information (the project descriptions, contact names and phone numbers,) that you will need to follow up on the project.

Most (if not all) other project leads reports require that you click-on and open each individual project, in order to find out if you have interest in that project. As such, they tend to be harder to use. None of them offer an overview of all of their current projects and information.

No other service even attempts to cover all of the construction projects in Western Washington. We do. Others either target specific project types, or coverage areas. For example, the Monitor’s coverage is 80% + residential, the reports are only at permit issuance, and only covers a few of Washington’s counties. Dodge’s coverage is 80% government, with essentially no residential coverage. Reed does not report on a very large percentage (60-70%) of the area’s projects. The same is so for Bid Clerk, Construction Wire, and others. We invite comparison.

The listings of the plans that are available from plan services are not leads lists. They are new bidding opportunities. Builders Exchange WA, Dodge, DJC, and others are all good plan services, and all offer their selected (not all) lists of plans. They work well for bidding.

But, if your product or service is unique in any way, unless you get specified early on, there is little chance of getting any change that would be in your favor. After the project is at a plan service, there is basically no chance for a change. At that time there are only two variables: what you are willing to ‘give away’ in labor and/or materials to get the job.

A proven way to either get your product or service into new projects or in front of builders and their architects is to know about these projects early on, then to closely track and follow-up on your selected new projects opportunities. (The earlier, you do so, the better.)

The goal of our report is to make you aware of every new project in this area early on.

Our reports show 3 general project stages:

These are: 1, In Planning, 2, SEPA, (environmental impact status) and 3, Permitted

1. The In Planning Stage: Includes: proposed, master planning, design development, preliminary, conception, schematics, working drawings, pending, negotiating, or, any planning stage. It is very difficult (it is impossible) for a reporting service to accurately track every project through every level of planning. (Few owners will communicate this information on a weekly basis)

2. The SEPA Stages: All construction projects (all those that we show In Planning) require a SEPA (State Environmental Protection Act) review. The larger the project, the broader the scope of the EIS (Environmental Impact Study) that will be required for permitting. All of the projects that are shown in the In Planning stage will go through these basic SEPA stages: 1, application, 2, hearings and 3, the issuance of a determination of the effects your project will have on the environment. The goal is to be awarded a determination of non-significance (DNS) or a MDNS (Mitigated) or a CDNS (Conditional) A DNS states that the project will not significantly effect the environment, and you can now build it.
The majority of the projects we show do (eventually) receive a DNS, MDNS, or a CDNS.

SEPA Statuses we report on (shown under the GC or SEPA Status heading in our reports) are:

Application Stage: These projects are 3 to 4 years from the issuance of the requisite DNS (Declaration of non-significance.) SEPA application information is valuable primarily for the early tracking of specific targeted project types. The contacts given at this stage could be SEPA agencies, or owners designates. (Applicants are not receptive to supplier inquiries)

Hearings Stage: This stage could continue on for 1-3 years, during which time the cost meter is running, and the project is still not approved. Applicants are not real conversant during this phase. (Applicants generally are not receptive to supplier inquiries)

Approval Stage: The project is now 2-4 months from final permit. Applicants may appoint a contact such as: an engineering firm, the architect, the owner’s agent-contact, or a GC, to receive and review supplier inquiries. Occasionally, the owner is the contact. (Applicants-agents-contacts generally are receptive to supplier inquiries)

3. The Permitted Stage: At this stage we will report the date the project is permitted, along with basic project identifying-key contact information. We do not track projects after permitting.

If your goal is to get your product or service specified:

You obviously need to get to the architect and/or owner ASAP. Ideally this is before plans are completed, but minimally must be before the project goes to the plan service and is out for bidding.

If you target a project we list that is In Planning, the best way to find the current level of planning, or to learn who the architect is, or will be, and/or to get access to a set of plans, is to call the owner or contact we list, and inquire as to “where and when you might be able to review a set of the projects plans and specs.” You will then know exact project status, and when and/or where plans will be available. We provide contact names and numbers to facilitate this.

We suggest that unless you are able to contact the architect at this point, we do not recommend that you try to sell anything. You are only after project timing & plans and possibly architectural services information. After you get it, you can track the project as closely as you choose, based on your first hand information.

An important sales and specifying window of opportunity is available to you when we
announce that a DNS (or a MDNS, or a CDNS.) has been issued for a project.

At that point the project is 2 to 4 months from permitting, and has basic plans and specs.
The owner-GC-architect are all now ready to make those decisions in which you wish to
be included. We provide the names and phone numbers of all of these key contacts (as they
become available) to help you in your effort to get your product-service specified/considered.

If your goal is to find more bidding opportunities:

You should track every one of the projects we show that fits your selected job profile.

Plan rooms do not have every plan on every project that we report on.
If we show a project in the In Planning stage that you target, as noted, the owner/architect/GC, are generally willing to tell you ‘where and when,’ the plans will be available. You should also avail yourself of the opportunity noted when a DNS (MDNS, or CDNS) has been issued. The project is then pretty well set, (it’s a go) and is quickly headed for permitting, a plan service, and bidding. We give you an early heads-up on these key approved and also on permitted projects.

The project types that we track are:

Residential, Mixed-Use, & Commercial (We do not track heavy construction)

Projects in our report are separated alphabetically into 3 basic categories, (Commercial, Mixed-Use, Residential) then further sorted into the following sub categories:

Commercial: Additions, Community, Education, Government, Hotels, Industrial, Medical,

Office, Religious, Remodels, Repairs, Retail, Subdivision, Tenant

Improvements, Warehouses

Mixed-Use: A single category of combined residential and commercial uses

Residential: Additions, Apartments, Condominiums, Garages, SFD Houses, Remodels,

Repairs, Subdivisions, Townhouses

Reports are formatted and transmitted in working Excel:

It is easy to sort & edit them for specific project information Each report can be sorted on:

Project: Stage, Type, Description, Size, Address, City,

Contacts: Names & Phone #s of 1, Owner 2, GC contractor 3, Architect

You can use the report to make a customized new projects / prospects file and report.

You can then use it to build a pipeline of future sales opportunities.

All of the basic information that you will need on each project is already inputted, and in format. (Note: If you use our report as a base, you will be mostly editing instead of inputting.) It is easy to edit our reports, by deleting/cutting/pasting, and then adding columns/lines for your
notes etc. Many have found that with the necessity to re-input details from the leads reports that
they currently use, they spend more on inputting basic information each month, than we charge for
our better formatted, easily edited, much more complete, reports.

We welcome your questions:

You can contact us at:

New Project News

info@newprojectnews.com