As we say goodbye to 2022 and prepare for the new year, here’s a roundup of news from IndustryWeek parent company Endeavor Business Media’s many news brands.

Electrical Wholesaling magazine notes an 18% decline in November construction starts. Higher interest rates are having their intended consequence, lowering demand for capital-intensive projects.

Electronic Design surveys its readers regularly on developments in the test and measurement world. This year’s results point to a blurring of lines between design and development work as design tools in that market have become significantly less cumbersome.

Supply chain challenges aren’t over, reports SmartIndustry. Companies should expect more disruptions and, more importantly, map out resiliency plans to overcome expected problems.

Advanced chemicals go into nearly every manufactured product sold in the country, so declining chemical production can point to sagging demand from manufacturers, reports Chemical Processing. Though the declines are small, there have been three months of output drops in September, October and November.

Safety regulators perform a critical task, but their rules often interfere with business operations. So, EHS Today asked its audience what the federal safety agency should do. Suggestions range from setting environmental health and safety staffing levels based on company hazard risks to pressuring management to support company safety professionals.

The Reshoring Initiative has tracked manufacturing moves from overseas to the U.S. and foreign direct investment in the U.S. since 2010, and that group has declared the third quarter of 2022 the best since it started tracking things, MH&L reports.