Current dollar spending on new construction in Canada will be $219 billion in 2008, rising to $227 billion in 2009, $239 billion in 2010 and $262 billion in 2011, according to the latest put-in-place investment forecasts made by Reed Construction Data – CanaData. This report includes 14 tables showing current and constant put-in-place dollars for the five major construction categories − residential, commercial, industrial, institutional and engineering − as well as CanaData’s assumptions about cost changes.