Romania's government, in January, started a recruitment drive in Italy for (Romanian) construction workers to return home to fill vacancies there.
The Nellis project was developed through a complex arrangement between the Air Force and financial partners where power providers covered system construction costs in return for a guaranteed market along with substantial federal tax subsidies and other incentives.
Construction is poised to return as a growth area in the U.S., but can be even more value-added if focused on environmentally efficient building retrofitting.
Employer-clients like Boeing, Citigroup, Pfizer and Microsoft sign contracts in which they agree to pay everything from construction costs to ongoing maintenance in return for on-site child care services for their employees' children. (Often, these employer "sponsors" will also subsidize the parents' tuition.) Under certain "cost-plus" contracts, the employer-sponsors will even shoulder some of the care center's risk in exchange for more control of the operations.
Netanyahu has refused to halt construction and instead calls for an immediate return to negotiations.
The pound has risen to its highest level against the dollar in three months, buoyed by a return to growth in the construction sector in January.
Abbas says he won't return to negotiations without an Israeli construction freeze, arguing that Israel's building on war-won land pre-empts the outcome of talks on a border between Israel and a future state of Palestine.
While housing construction and other building will take time to return to pre-financial-crash levels, the repair and restoration side of this industry is doing well, particularly since those who have had their buildings foreclosed upon are stripping gutters and other exposed metal for recycling.
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First-class existing buildings are priced to yield only around 5% to an all-cash buyer, says research firm Green Street Advisors. (The return they talk about is rent minus the costs of operating and maintaining the building and leasing any empty space.) But a skillfully developed new property can bag an annual cash return of up to 10% of its construction costs.
In 2012, the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Home Construction Index Fund ETF (ITB) delivered a whopping 78.4% return, said Robert Goldsborough, ETF analyst at Morningstar.
In return, the agency said, Nastase named Jianu as head of the construction agency.
About 100 Indian workers stranded in Bahrain for six years will be able to return home after an agreement between the Indian embassy and the Nass Corporation construction firm.
While the private sector assumes responsibility for capital costs and the risks involved such as cost and time overruns in construction or failure to deliver an agreed level of service, the local authority in return commits to regular payments.
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Construction and high finance positions that were temporarily slashed, for example, are expected to steadily return.
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