And I want to thank the folks at Cherry Hill Construction for having me here today.
Total construction employment rose 2% in 2012, according to McGraw-Hill Construction, compared to a tiny 0.3% pickup in 2011 and four consecutive years of decline before that.
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Cherry Hill Construction was able to put people to work because of this project, just as other private contractors are doing because of similar projects across the country.
Construction starts for U.S. offices are rising from 2010, when they totaled 57 million square feet, the lowest since at least 1960, according to McGraw-Hill Construction, which began keeping national data that year.
Green home building is projected to encompass as much as 38% of the U.S. residential market by 2016, according to a study by McGraw-Hill Construction and the National Association of Home Builders, up from 17% in 2011.
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And, last spring, along with Karl Case of Wellesley College and Anne Thompson of McGraw-Hill Construction, I conducted a detailed survey of the attitudes of recent home buyers in four American cities, as I discussed here in October.
The rise of the self-sufficient home comes amid an expansion in green homebuilding that is projected to swell to between 29% and 38% of the U.S. residential market by 2016, according to a study by McGraw-Hill Construction and the National Association of Home Builders, up from 17% in 2011.
We travel for hours through broad plains of spinifex and red-earth anthills and see few other vehicles and no human settlements except, at the end of long rough dirt tracks, temporary Roy Hill rail-construction camps.
The local organizing committee for the tournament, the Supreme Committee for Qatar 22, and the company it appointed to help oversee World Cup construction, CH2M HILL, have said they will establish labor standards that builders and other contractors hired to build World Cup venues must meet.
However, as Neville Hill at Credit Suisse points out, two much smaller sectors - construction and energy - have also been pulling the figures down in the past six months.
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