Michael Sykuta, an agricultural economist at the University of Missouri, told CNN that a single construction job normally spins off two or perhaps three indirect jobs at most.
The finished five-pound foot was a single-piece construction, hollow (to minimize weight) and with no seams or fasteners.
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The figures came as little surprise, given the dour view single-family construction that has been coming out of recent earnings reports from U.S. home builders.
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And single-family home construction, which represents nearly two-thirds of the market, fell 4.8 percent March.
The mood was optimistic: Construction of single-family homes climbed 18.5% in December from the prior year.
Construction on single-family homes continues to remain at a stand-still, as inventories overflow the selling market and unemployment remains over 9%.
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The pace of construction of single-family homes rose 0.8 percent in January.
On Wednesday, the National Association of Realtors reported sales of previously occupied homes and construction of single-family homes last month reached their highest levels in more than two years.
Construction of single-family homes fell by 5.5 percent to an annual rate of 829, 000 units, the lowest level since April 1991, while multifamily construction was up 4.4 percent to an annual rate of 332, 000 units.
But multi-family is only a sliver of the action in the Carolina metros of Raleigh, Charleston SC and Columbia SC, where almost all new construction is single-family homes, unlike in higher-density cities with bigger shares of renters.
Actual construction starts on single-family homes fell by 7% compared with September.
And they argue that leaves Ireland with a narrow tax base and makes its public finances vulnerable to the collapse of a single sector such as construction.
Analysts at DBS Bank Ltd. in Singapore suggested the U.S. housing data was not all that spectacular, since it reflects a big jump not in single family homes but in apartment construction, which is typically volatile.
Housing construction fell in November and single-family activity dropped to the lowest level in more than 16 years.
This single demographic alone impacts vacation packages, resort construction, even automobiles.
Weakness struck the country's biggest growth engines, with expansion in manufacturing, construction and agriculture all in the low single digits.
The snag is that multi-carrier signals do not travel as far as single-carrier ones, so they require the construction of expensive repeater stations.
Its core business remains homebuilding, which deals with the construction and sale of homes that include single-family attached and detached homes and multi-level residential buildings.
When the Russians complained that in their present, dire economic straits they could not afford the expenses associated with the destruction of these silos and the construction of new silos for smaller, single-warhead missiles, the United States was accommodating.
The new construction provides superior research and teaching facilities with daylit offices on single loaded corridors with views.
Bomb-sniffing dogs were working the area of the bombings and nearby streets, checking every single item on curbs or near the street -- including "every construction cone, every Port-a-Jon" -- to make sure there were no explosive devices left, CNN affiliate WHDH in Boston reported.
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Their vision: architect- designed, factory-built, single-family dwellings with green accents (including energy-efficient appliances and airtight construction) that appeal to higher- income, eco-conscious buyers.
Construction across the euro zone continued to decline in July, indicating the single currency area will likely struggle to post economic growth in the third quarter of this year.
The largest private single-site employer in central Florida, Disney estimates it will add 1, 200 construction jobs and 4, 000 operations jobs.
Hovering close to the ground, each of these thin-shell dwellings is made entirely out of a single concrete slab stretched out to create an energy efficient structure that is environmentally greener than traditional construction methods and cheaper and faster to produce.
The German Government's financial rescue plan for the country's second largest construction group is seen as one of the reason for the decline in Europe's single currency, the euro.
The biggest monthly increases came in private single-family and multi-family housing categories, and in public office, health care and power construction projects.
In other photos, a wreath in the shape of a Christmas tree dangles above highway construction, and a "Happy Holidays" banner casts its shadow on a highway empty except for a single truck.
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