April 15, 2016 – PORTSMOUTH, NH – According to the latest Global Construction Pipeline Trend Report from Lodging Econometrics (LE), the top five cities with the largest construction pipelines in the world by room count are: New York with 34,788 Rooms/204 Projects; Seoul with 28,223 Rooms/132 Projects; Dubai with 27,194 Rooms/94 Projects; Shanghai with 23,245 Rooms/115 Projects; and Jakarta with 22,463 Rooms/128 Projects. All of these pipelines showed room count increases in 2015, with the exception of Jakarta which was down slightly.