Commercial And Institutional Building Construction federal obligations in Washington

Building construction and Washington as a pair

Commercial And Institutional Building Construction as the NAICS industry, Washington as place of performance: 959 records summing to $1,156,565,544.89. An award in this industry coded outside WA is out. An award in Washington from a different NAICS is out even if the work sounds related. Washington (WA) excludes Oregon and Idaho. An award coded to a neighboring state is out even if the contractor sits in Washington. Washington place-of-performance is a statewide tag, not Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane, or a Puget Sound yard.

959 awards is a mid-count industry cell. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows without each one being a new establishment. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 959 as 959 unique firms. The overlay path for this pair is the ties page for commercial building construction in Washington. Washington federal spending is the all-industry state hub. NAICS 236220 is the industry book without a WA filter. Washington industries lists other NAICS cells inside the state. All spending ties lists other joins.

The implied mean is about $1,206,012 per award — a quotient of two packet facts, not a typical project. Dollars and row counts tell different stories on the same join. Correlation is not causation: Washington did not “cause” $1,156,565,544.89 by existing as a large or small place, and NAICS 236220 did not “cause” the geography tag. Population, employment, and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 236220 × WA only.

What NAICS 236220 is not counting

$1,156,565,544.89 does not measure completed buildings, school campuses, or hospital wings placed in service. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. NAICS 236220 covers commercial and institutional building construction: nonresidential structures such as offices, schools, hospitals, warehouses, and other institutional buildings as coded on the award. It is not residential homebuilding, not highway work, and not a census of buildings opened. The cell sums award obligations with NAICS 236220 and a WA place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 959 awards as a census of buildings delivered. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Washington federal spending or the national NAICS 236220 table matched $1,156,565,544.89 and 959, the join would be pointless. Use the ties page when both keys must stay on. Neighboring-state cells for the same NAICS are other pairs, not addends.

Washington statewide, not a local map

Place of performance WA is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Washington (WA) excludes Oregon and Idaho. An award coded to a neighboring state is out even if the contractor sits in Washington. Recipient headquarters can sit in another state while the place-of-performance tag remains WA. Contractor address is not this filter.

Washington place-of-performance is a statewide tag, not Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane, or a Puget Sound yard. This packet does not split $1,156,565,544.89 by city, county, installation, or named facility. 959 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract. Do not infer a regional ranking from a single state×industry cell.

Obligations still are not outlays

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $1,156,565,544.89 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Washington confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Washington’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 959-award USAspending file leaves this series. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Keep the obligation label on $1,156,565,544.89. Campaign-finance filings are a different dataset; this page does not treat donations as funding these awards.

Citing Building construction in Washington

Cite USAspending.gov: Commercial And Institutional Building Construction (NAICS 236220) obligated $1,156,565,544.89 on 959 awards coded to Washington. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as completed buildings, school campuses, or hospital wings placed in service.

Prefer the ties page for commercial building construction in Washington if a live overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Washington federal spending still includes every other NAICS tagged to WA. NAICS 236220 is the industry parent without the WA filter. Washington industries is the state’s industry index. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $1,156,565,544.89.

A usable footnote names Commercial And Institutional Building Construction, Washington, NAICS 236220, $1,156,565,544.89, and 959. The compact headline $1.16B is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $1,206,012 is $1,156,565,544.89 divided by 959. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the federal government obligated for commercial building construction in Washington?

USAspending.gov records $1,156,565,544.89 across 959 awards with NAICS 236220 and a Washington place-of-performance tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of buildings delivered. Keep both keys when quoting $1,156,565,544.89.

Does this total count buildings completed?

No. The packet publishes $1,156,565,544.89 and 959 awards for NAICS 236220 inside WA coding. Completed buildings, school campuses, or hospital wings placed in service are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this Washington file have 959 awards?

That is the award-record count for 236220 × WA. Combined with $1,156,565,544.89, the average is about $1,206,012. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 959 is not unique buildings delivered. Later ingests can revise the count.

Where is the live table?

Washington federal spending and NAICS 236220 are the parents, not addends. Washington industries lists other NAICS cells in the state. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $1,156,565,544.89. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.