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The Built Environment Growth Index

BE Growth Index

 

Benchmark Your Company Against Peers 

The BE Growth Index is an annual snapshot, but the survey stays open year-round. Take it now, and we’ll send you a personalized benchmark comparing your company to the most recent data.


Built Environment Growth Index 
The only independent, annually published benchmark tracking the strategic health of built environment manufacturers.

✓ Commercial Furniture 
✓ Textiles and Upholstery
✓ Flooring and Carpet 
✓ Lighting and Controls
✓ Building Materials
✓ Building Systems


Takes about 5 minutes.
Your responses help establish the industry’s most comprehensive benchmark of strategic health for built environment companies.

Anonymous, if you prefer.
Contact information is only required if you want a personalized benchmark report. Otherwise, your responses are completely anonymous.

Multiple brands? 
If you’re completing this for a division within a larger organization, answer as your division. You may complete the survey multiple times for different brands.

Custom benchmark reports.
You can provide your contact information at the end to receive a personalized benchmark report that shows how you compare with industry norms.

Internal Alignment Reports 
If more than one person from your company completes the survey, we offer team-building reports: a good
starting place for a conversation about where you see things the same way and where you don’t. 
Download Sample Alignment Report →


2026 Findings Report
Download the sector data showing where manufacturers are gaining ground, where gaps remain, and where there's room to improve. 

 

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2025 Foundations Report →

 

About this research

We believe better information lifts all boats.

The BE Growth Index is the only independent annual benchmark tracking strategic health across built environment manufacturers. 

Most BE companies make growth decisions based on instinct, anecdote, and whatever the rep said last week. The BE Growth Index gives you sector-wide data on how the industry is actually competing. 

The Index tracks core growth signals: where you lose, revenue trajectory, specification presence, differentiation, and pricing power. Participate to see how you compare.

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