Residential construction suffered a heavy blow when the housing market collapsed in 2008, but it’s showed definite signs of recovery in recent months.

Few industries suffered more setbacks than residential construction during the housing downturn; the last couple months, though, have revealed a dramatically different residential construction market, one that is at the forefront of the housing recovery.

To recap some of residential construction’s most encouraging numbers, we put together the infographic below, which offers five tell-tale sigs that residential construction is back.