Overall, accounts receivable days for the residential building construction industry (NAICS code 2361) were an average of 21.6 days in 2011, compared with 15.8 days in 2010, Sageworks found.

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Sageworks analyzed accounts receivable days for privately held companies in various construction-related industries, including those tied to early-stage work, such as architectural design and foundation work, and those for drywall, flooring and other end-of-project tasks.

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Using another outstanding U.S. Government Service, NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, there is unending weather information available these days for farmers and seafarers, offshore drillers, construction workers and all the rest of us living our daily lives.

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President Nestor Kirchner of Argentina has called for the construction work, which is already well advanced, to be halted for 90 days to allow an independent study to be carried out.

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For non-residential construction (NAICS 2362), average AR days totaled 61.6, compared with 56 in 2010.

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Warm weather and rain complicated palace construction this week, and work was suspended for a couple of days.

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We are nine days away from the expiration of federal transportation funding, which guarantees jobs for almost a million construction workers because Congress has not passed a transportation bill.

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Besides costing you for construction and equipment, the business may run an operating loss in its early days.

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More recently, the stock of the barely profitable construction company Leong Hin collapsed 90% over two days after the government investigated a brokerage in late April for unusual trading in the stock.

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