• Dive summary:
• Nonresidential construction continues to improve, according to an index that consulting company FMI compiles based on interviews with a panel of industry participants, and 45% of them say they expect to add some full-time staff this year.
• The index for the first quarter of 2013 is at 58.1, which is 2.6 points higher than 2012 finished.
• Most of the participants in the panel think growth with continue for 2013, FMI reported, and almost a fifth of them – 18.4% – say they think it could be as much as 5%.

From the article:

"Optimistic but not bullish" is the way one panelist described his outlook on hiring for his company in 2013. ...