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January 25, 2012Despite the lingering effects of an over-built housing market, the continued difficulty obtaining financing for real estate projects, budget shortfalls at state and municipal governments, and the anxiety surrounding the prolonged European debt crisis, there are signs that the U.S. design and construction industry will be improving, economists at the American Institute of Architects say.According...
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October 29, 2010McGraw Hill Construction's Outlook 2011 Executive Conference opened Oct. 28 in Washington, D.C., at the Capital Hilton. Four hundred construction professionals registered for the conference, up from 350 last year, according to MHC staff.Kathleen M. Camilli, president, Camilli Economics, New York, delivered the keynote address, "The Economic Outlook – A Slow Recovery.""The recession --...
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August 5, 2010NSG Group announces a revision to its previous forecast for the first half of the financial year to 31 March 2011, from 1 April 2010 to 30 September 2010, and also for the full year to 31 March 2011 (FY2011), from 1 April 2010 to 31 March 2011, as set out below.
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March 30, 2010The construction industry is signaling that industry conditions may begin to improve over the next 12 to 18 months, according to a survey in today's issue of Engineering News-Record magazine and on ENR.com, published by McGraw-Hill Construction, New York City. The ENR Construction Industry Confidence Index (CICI) for the first quarter of 2010 shows that construction and design firm executives are...
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December 14, 2009Construction's unemployment rate continued to rise in November, climbing to 19.4 percent from October's 18.7 percent, while the nation's overall jobless rate declined slightly, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported.Job creation has become a prime topic in Washington, as congressional Democrats work on new measures aimed at bringing more people back to work. Infrastructure spending is...
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December 11, 2009The good news about the world economic recovery is coming fast and furious. Chinese industrial production is growing at an amazing rate; U.S. retail sales are almost back to levels of a year ago; and home prices in Canada, for both new and existing properties, are on an upswing.
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December 7, 2009Despite a slowing in the number of construction workers losing jobs in November, 19.4 percent of the nation's construction workers are now unemployed according to new federal figures released today. The figures show that unemployment rates within the construction industry remain significantly higher than any other sector of the economy, the Associated General Contractors of America said."The...
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November 13, 2009Pointing to a complete lack of available financing and new projects going into the pipeline, Peter Linneman, consultant and professor, Wharton School of Business, said supply and demand fundamentals for the commercial construction market will remain weak through 2013, during a keynote session at the 2009 Building and Infrastructure Conference hosted by Lincoln International and L.E.K. Consulting...
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October 26, 2009“Reports from the 12 Federal Reserve Districts indicated either stabilization or modest improvements in many sectors since the last report, albeit often from depressed levels,” the Fed reported on Wednesday [Oct. 21] in the Beige Book (so named for the color of its cover), a summary of informal soundings of business conditions conducted in each district fromlate August to Oct. 12....
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October 19, 2009"The level of construction starts in 2010 is expected to climb 11 percent," McGraw-Hill Construction forecasted on Friday [Oct. 16], "following the 25 percent decline predicted for 2009. 'The U.S. construction market in 2010 will be helped by growth for several sectors, following three straight years of decline that brought total construction activity down 39 percent from its mid-...
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