The U.S. construction market is currently the world's largest and most stable. The other top four major markets include Japan, China, Germany and France respectively. In a joint study of 58 global construction marketplaces completed by the economic forecasting firm of Standard & Poor's DRI and construction information firm F.W. Dodge, projected China to surpass the U.S. as the largest market by 2010. When annual construction will approach $1.2 trillion. The United States and Japan will be the second and third largest markets respectively.