What's Really Reshaping the Building Products Market in 2026?

FMI's building products team breaks down 2026 spending, growth and consolidation trends across seven product categories.

FMI's 2026 Building Products Market Overview, First Edition, examines the structural forces reshaping building products, from material substitution and labor constraints to water infrastructure investment and accelerating distribution consolidation. This edition spotlights the plumbing sector as a leading indicator of broader market change. Built for manufacturers, distributors and investors across the built environment, the report combines proprietary FMI forecasts with sector-by-sector demand data through 2029-30. 

In This Report, You'll Learn:

• How residential and nonresidential demand diverge across plumbing, HVAC, roofing, flooring, drywall, insulation, and windows and doors through 2029-30. 
• Why material substitution (PEX, PVC, HDPE) and smart water technologies are reshaping plumbing specification faster than any other building product category. 
• Which distributors and platforms (Ferguson, Core & Main, Hajoca) are driving M&A activity, and what continued consolidation means for manufacturers' channel strategy. 
• How labor constraints are pushing every category toward prefabricated assemblies, modular systems and simplified installation. 
• Total materials value and growth-rate data by segment, 2029–30, at the manufacturer level.