This index fell by six points in May to 45, its lowest since 1995. (A score below 50 suggests that more builders reckon the market is poor than think it good.) Economists at Goldman Sachs estimate, from the fall in the homebuilders' index, that construction will fall at an annual rate of 10-15% in the next four quarters.
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Movie from the German Broadcasting Archive and related to the collection "Construction and Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Two-Plus-Four-Treaty of 1990" submitted by Germany and inscribed on the Memory of the World Register in 2011.
The group is scheduled to complete construction of in fall of 2012, when students will move into the house.
Construction should start this fall and sales will begin in spring 2014, said Stephen Alfandre, the area's director of acquisitions for the City Living division.
It added that a fall in government spending had contributed to the particularly large fall in the construction sector.
And unemployment is now a big worry, as construction firms and estate agencies fall over themselves to lay off staff.
When full construction is completed later this fall, there will also be a 200-seat restaurant, a wine bar and an events space.
The previous boom brought double-digit growth and reckless lending, followed by a construction bust and a 14% fall in GDP.
In such a scenario, the United States goes into recession, commercial vacancy rates rise, rents fall, and new construction is delayed even longer.
As a result, the seasonally adjusted figures in the fall should benefit from a smaller number of construction layoffs, not so much because construction is growing, but because the workers who would normally be laid off in the fall were never hired in the spring.
Employment in the construction and manufacturing sectors has continued to fall, while the pace of job gains in the services industries has slowed.
There was some relief for the embattled construction sector, which saw its unemployment level fall 4.4%.
Homebuilders responded to the fall in demand by sharply curtailing construction.
Last fall, developer Steven Witkoff needed a construction loan quickly for a retail development in Times Square.
Although the construction bubble has well and truly burst, the fall-out continues.
In September, private residential construction fell 1.3%, while public construction fell by the same margin, the sharpest fall in more than six months.
" New plans were drawn up in the fall of 1669, and by 1671 construction was complete, resulting in the palace that Colbert declared "monstrous, but a well-arranged monster, " and which was destined to become, in Zega's words, "a pillar of French civilization.
Regular readers will be thrilled that our old friend, the construction sector, is in the frame again - the sharp fall in output in this sector in December is very much an estimate, which some consider a little fishy.
Researchers estimate the cost would start at about 9 cents a kilowatt-hour for the first EGS project and fall to as little as 4 cents, including construction, development and financing but not including any government subsidies that may be available.
As a result, jobless claims appear to be overstated now, but may be understated in the fall, when fewer workers are laid off from a smaller construction industry, which did not hire them in the spring.
This is accounted for by increasing raw material costs, currency movements (particularly the pound's fall against the euro), bottlenecks in the supply chain and construction in progressively more challenging sites.
"Construction starts may have been up last year, but I expect that to fall around 10% this year because of the central government's lowered target for public-housing starts and diminished investment from private-property developers, " said Johnson Hu, a CIMB-GK Securities analyst.
Actions of the work groups will also fall under the concept of "citizens as generators of content in the construction of news".
And classes will begin next fall in space loaned by Google to the city while the campus is under construction.
The fall of the housing market has contributed to a large decrease in mortality in construction: Annual fatalities in the industry have fallen by 42% since 2006, and are down 7% from 2010.
Construction is scheduled to begin in September on that field, which is scheduled to open in fall 2013.
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Goldman Sachs' Communacopia Conference this week that construction of the first cell sites starts this month, with efforts truly swinging into full gear during the fall.
At Stornoway, there was a 2.4% fall, mainly due to the completion of the school building programme, a project which used external construction workers flying between Stornoway and the mainland.
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