Roofing
48%29,678 active
Front Range hailstorms drive enormous reroofing volume every season — the single biggest permit-count signal in the metro, and it spikes hard after each hail event.
Denver, Colorado
Denver construction projects, live across the east metro.
13,495 active projects across the Denver metro — densest along the east-metro corridor where we track Aurora (the metro's third-largest city) and the City & County of Denver most deeply. Filter by trade, value, and stage — pursue before bid award.
13,495
Active projects across the Denver metro
66,033
Total projects tracked (Aurora + Denver)
130
Commercial $1M+ projects active this month
Market snapshot
What's actually happening in Denver construction in 2026
The Denver metro is governed by a split AHJ stack: the Aurora Building Division on the east side and the City & County of Denver Community Planning & Development (CPD) at the urban core, with a long roster of separate suburban building departments ringing the rest of the metro. Our coverage is honest about that — it's densest in Aurora, the metro's third-largest city, and in the City & County of Denver, which together make up the east-metro corridor we track most deeply. We don't claim every suburb at the same depth; the strength here is the Aurora + Denver spine.
The trade mix tells a uniquely Colorado story. Roofing alone is 48% of tracked active projects, and that is real, not noise — Front Range hailstorms generate enormous reroofing volume every season, making roofing the single biggest permit-count signal in the entire metro. Exterior and reroof trades visibly spike after hail season, so timing outreach to that seasonality is a genuine edge. Underneath roofing, mechanical and electrical scope rides the metro's institutional and multifamily backbone, and solar has climbed to 11% on the back of fast residential and commercial adoption.
The high-value anchor is the Anschutz Medical Campus at Fitzsimons in Aurora — UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital, Children's Hospital Colorado, and the VA hospital — which keeps a durable base of healthcare mechanical, electrical, and life-safety work in the pipeline. Around it sit the Denver International Airport (DEN) expansion, the Gaylord Rockies resort, and transit-oriented multifamily clustering along the RTD light-rail and A-Line corridors. The teams winning here lead with the Aurora + east-Denver corridor, ride the hail-season roofing cycle, and work the institutional anchors deliberately.
Trade mix
Where the work sits in the Denver metro
Roofing, HVAC, plumbing, solar, electrical, and fire & life safety by share of tracked active projects across the Denver metro over the last 12 months.
HVAC / mechanical
15%9,233 active
Mechanical scope follows the Anschutz Medical Campus expansion in Aurora and the wave of transit-oriented multifamily rising along the RTD A-Line and light rail.
Plumbing
13%7,934 active
Ground-up multifamily and the DEN airport build-out keep plumbing rough-in and tie-in permits steady across the east-metro corridor.
Solar
11%6,543 active
Rapid residential and commercial solar adoption across the metro — Colorado's strong rooftop economics make this one of the fastest-growing slices in the feed.
Electrical
10%6,085 active
Institutional anchors like UCHealth, Children's Hospital Colorado, and the Gaylord Rockies resort keep heavy electrical scope flowing through Aurora and east Denver.
Fire & life safety
2%1,019 active
Small by count but high-value — driven by the hospital campuses at Fitzsimons, hospitality at the Gaylord Rockies, and DEN concourse work where life-safety scope is mandatory.
Pursuit playbook
The Denver metro pursuit playbook
How the top construction sales teams across the Denver metro operate in 2026.
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Anchor on the Aurora + east-Denver corridor
Our densest, most reliable coverage is the Aurora Building Division and the City & County of Denver CPD. Start where the data is deepest — the east-metro spine — rather than trying to blanket every suburb thin. That's the corridor with the fullest project, owner, and contractor linkage.
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Time exterior outreach to hail season
Roofing is 48% of tracked active projects because Front Range hail drives reroofing every year. Watch the post-hail permit spike and stage roofing, gutter, and exterior outreach to it — the volume is predictable and seasonal, and the teams that pre-position before the surge win the first calls.
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Work the Fitzsimons / Anschutz institutional anchor
The Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora — UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital, Children's Hospital Colorado, and the VA hospital — is the metro's high-value backbone for mechanical, electrical, and fire & life-safety scope. Profile the campus GCs and engineers of record; institutional work is repeat business once you're on the bid list.
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Track DEN, the Gaylord Rockies, and TOD multifamily
Denver International Airport expansion, the Gaylord Rockies resort, and transit-oriented multifamily along the RTD light-rail and A-Line corridors are the other durable drivers. Site and structural permits lead; mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and life-safety scope follow on a predictable lag.
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Read Aurora and Denver CPD as two separate AHJs
The Aurora Building Division and Denver Community Planning & Development run on different intake flows, review timelines, and naming conventions. Save filters per-AHJ so an Aurora reroof pipeline doesn't get tangled with a Denver core TI pipeline — the contractor rosters only partly overlap.
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Drop everything into the CRM the same day
Pipedrive sync, project → owner → GC → engineer linkage, and a stage-tagged note for every interaction. The sales teams scaling fastest in Denver treat the CRM as the source of truth, not a graveyard.
FAQ
Denver construction FAQ
Our densest coverage is Aurora — the metro's third-largest city — and the City & County of Denver, the east-metro corridor served by the Aurora Building Division and Denver Community Planning & Development (CPD). We track the broader metro too, but we're honest that Aurora plus Denver is the spine; we don't claim every suburb at the same depth.
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