According to the Hickory Daily Record, construction-related fires like this cannot be started before 8 a.m. and new material cannot be added to existing fires after 6 p.m.
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As with office and retail, projects under construction are at a record 10-year low due to an increase in corporate spending would accelerate the strengthening of industrial market fundamentals.
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REITs also have benefited from a dearth of new construction in recent years and the record-low interest rates resulting from the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing program, which has enabled them to raise cheap capital.
Banks are especially shy of sectors that have a particularly bad record, such as the construction industry and agriculture.
What with record low interest rates, idle construction workers and a huge backlog of worthy projects, there has never been a better time to invest in infrastructure.
Housing is weaker than the record levels in 2005, but manufacturing and commercial construction are stronger.
Residential construction is on the mend, but completions are still at record lows.
Businesses will only face health and safety inspections if they are operating in areas deemed to be higher-risk, such as construction and food production, or if they have had an accident or a track record of poor performance.
Construction on new homes in the U.S. slowed to its second-lowest level on record Tuesday, reflecting the continued pain that the housing market is feeling with low home prices and high inventories making new home sales suffer.
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