This coming week, finance officials will be watching a handful of big general contractors nervously.
These are both billion-dollar U.S.-based companies growing 20% or more annually renting hydraulic lifts, compressors and other smallish equipment to general contractors.
Me, I already know how to drive those 16-penny nails and solder thlose copper joints as I am 4th generation from general contractors.
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It also works with trade organizations such as the National Association for the Remodeling Industry (NARI) and the Association of General Contractors (AGC).
Along with its images, Houzz offers design and redecorating advice from nearly 170, 000 professionals, including architects, interior designers, landscape architects, general contractors and home stagers.
Last week, ARTBA, along with the Associated General Contractors of America, held a legislative "fly-in": 500 people signed up, representing 28 construction and building associations and union groups.
Sandherr, chief executive of the Associated General Contractors of America.
The slower pace means more of Mr. Duncan's employees are doing hands-on work at job sites, instead of acting as general contractors and managing electricians, plumbers and other subcontractors.
However, construction companies seem to have been cutting staff and delaying hiring in recent months, according to a recent analysis of federal data by the Associated General Contractors of America.
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Manufacturing and commercial construction projects have been some of the biggest drivers of nonresidential construction over the last year, according to the Associated General Contractors of America, a trade group.
General contractors of multifamily projects increased hiring by 3%.
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After local governments decided to pursue LEED certification for their own buildings, there was an uptick in the number of local architects, general contractors, and other construction industry professionals who sought LEED accreditation.
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Hiring by single-family general contractors was surprisingly flat.
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In addition to benefiting from stronger new home sales, general contractors might also be seeing more confident homeowners who are now more likely to start a major renovation project than they were a few years ago, Schaefer said.
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Meanwhile, investors have been turning out in droves for meetings at other big military contractors like General Dynamics and Raytheon, which presumably means they see value in the shares.
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The county is dotted with military bases and intelligence sites such as CIA headquarters, and most of its biggest private-sector employers are defense contractors like General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman and Science Applications International.
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Traditional military contractors like General Dynamics and BAE Systems tend to dabble in the truck business rather than regarding it as a core franchise, so they can afford to walk away if terms look too onerous.
However, there are already examples of defense contractors like General Dynamics that have thrived while having a foot in both worlds (GD owns bizjet giant Gulfstream), and investors have become worried enough about where military demand is headed so that they no longer reflexively criticize any move that sector players make out of defense.
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Its properties tend to be leased to either government agencies, government contractors like Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics, or stable businesses.
Defense contractors Northrop ( NOC), General Dynamics ( GD) and Raytheon ( RTN) face a future without the government spending for two wars.
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In a letter prefacing the audit, Mr. Sopko, the special inspector general, recommended that the State Department and USAID should recover from contractors any inappropriately reimbursed taxes.
Military contractors that have done well in recent years, like General Dynamics and Raytheon, can satisfy investors by just sticking with strategies that have already been proven to work.
That same logic helps explain the long-term staying power of companies like General Electric and United Technologies, both of which are major military contractors despite being focused mainly in commercial businesses.
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Were this true of good deeds in general, it might be better for the government to hire private contractors to care for vulnerable people, instead of subsidising charities to do so.
Because Brilliant's clients tend to take longer trips, Fertig needs only a skeletal support staff, including a booker, general manager and full-time detailer--another bonus for his drivers, as most contractors have to do their own upkeep.
Among the handful of big military contractors that survived the post-Cold War consolidation of the defense sector, none has performed better than General Dynamics.
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