Education community construction may well be the closest we come to a $100+ billion perpetual motion machine. It is overbuilt. For some unknown reason the usual first-day-of-the-month release will happen on May 7th instead. This much is unchanged: The education “industry” is the second largest building construction market in the world. Upwards of 40 million square feet the University of Michigan has the largest measure of square footage of any campus in the world