Federal, state, and local governments buy everything, from office supplies to construction services, from catering to janitorial services.
The recession of the past 18 months has inflicted serious pain on companies selling commodities and construction services.
GCL-Poly recently created a joint venture with New Jersey-based NRG Energy to provide solar power plant engineering and construction services.
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Suntech Power designs, develops, manufactures, and markets photovoltaic products and also provides engineering and construction services for building solar power systems.
Most important, he says, Doosan is providing engineering, procurement and construction services, or EPC, for the Rabigh plants, as well as the key components.
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Halliburton consists of two major divisions, KBR, which provides logistics and construction services, and the Energy Services Group, which concentrates on support services for oil explorers.
But things like construction are services for the government rather than for the taxpayer.
Both construction and services have grown enormously in recent years and have become big engines of employment growth.
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Among the industrial sectors, investors were most enthusiastic about the prospects for information technology, construction, services and pharmaceuticals.
But after four years of recession, even the sectors that were pampered, like construction and services, have been forced to restructure or go under.
The engineering and leasing of construction machinery is involved in provision of construction related services, such as scaffolding, electrical installations and leasing of metal formworks.
It provides design and construction management services on large projects, including ports, toll roads, subways, and water projects, as well as providing maintenance of schools and airports.
Under the deal, Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) will continue to provide engineering, procurement, construction and services to Total's Alwyn, Dunbar, Elgin and Franklin offshore platforms and the St Fergus onshore gas plant.
David Bucknall, chair of the board at Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Global Construction and Quantity Surveying, for services to the construction industry.
The jobs came mainly in the healthcare, manufacturing, construction and food services sectors, the Labor Department said.
All major sectors, except for construction, business services and information and communications saw contractions during the fourth quarter, the ministry said.
Others include Oklahoma City, prospering on the shale-fracking boom in oil and gas, and Denver, which is adding jobs in construction, professional services and mining.
And those changes were felt particularly in suburban communities because some of the hardest hit industries in the Great Recession were these more suburbanized types of jobs, like construction, like services, like manufacturing.
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But for now, the clearest beneficiaries of the war have been construction and oil services firms, such as San Francisco-based Bechtel and Houston-based Halliburton (nyse: HAL - news - people ), which have secured major contracts to help rebuild Iraq and its oil industry.
On some data, particularly when you drill down to sectors including hospitality, financial services and construction, they have good reason for doubt.
The department said the new index has been been developed using data from existing quarterly indices of the production, services and construction industries.
This is already being done in many States and the cooperation between archaeological services and construction companies has proven fruitful and positive for both sides.
In Northern Ireland, we do have a series of figures called called the indexes of production, services and construction which are sometimes used as a proxy for GDP.
Nonfarm payrolls added 236, 000 jobs, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday morning, with the private sector adding 246, 000 and big gains in professional and business services, construction and health care.
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The index has been developed using data from existing quarterly indices of output from the production, services and construction sectors combined with agricultural output data and employee jobs data for the public sector.
Moreover, a prolonged investment drought in the region will hurt the major American industries -- notably aerospace, high technology, construction equipment and financial services -- that have prospered most from the Asian boom.
Some industries such as banking are fairly well along in making computer systems year-2000 compliant, but others, including food processing, agriculture and farming, some government services, construction, law, and medical practice are lagging, Marcoccio said.
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Castellano didn't want to be involved in drug trade for fear there would be too much federal heat against the family, which was making more than enough money controlling discreet businesses such as construction and private sanitation services.
They will watch the reports in coming weeks to get a more steady reading on jobless claims, while unemployment is still being reflected in the still subdued consumer spending activity and slow hiring in construction and professional business services.
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