Deaths in sectors not subject to preventive HSE inspections make up over three quarters, 76%, of the 180 non-construction sector deaths.
But the weakness in non-residential construction spending in Europe and North America has impacted growth from Asia in the building-related businesses of the company.
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For non-residential construction (NAICS 2362), average AR days totaled 61.6, compared with 56 in 2010.
There are some projects underway, and the non-residential construction data show a bit of improvement.
Last quarter, the company said that demand was healthy across market segments, but particularly in the non-residential construction, energy, oil and gas, and aerospace industries.
Payrolls rose in both residential and non-residential construction jobs.
You see unlimited opportunities here, non-stop new construction, and a steady stream of migrants from the surrounding hinterlands who are motivated to climb their way up the social ladder.
Company profits are at record levels, and even if their growth is not as quick as it was a few months ago, capital spending by firms remains astonishingly robust, and is spreading now from manufacturing to non-manufacturing sectors including construction.
Nanotech also allows for "green manufacturing"--manufacturing processes that can take place at ordinary temperatures, reducing energy costs, while the use of non-toxic catalysts minimize pollution and bottom-up construction leaves no wasted material behind.
Australia's central bank cut interest rates four times in 2012 in an attempt to boost investment and growth in non-mining sectors such as construction.
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Reducing water use at its buildings, cutting down on non-essential travel and the construction of modern energy efficient stations to replace existing ones have been among suggestions of the ways in which HIFRS could cut CO2 emissions.
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Across the different sectors, non-manufacturing PMI for the construction industry hit a whopping 62.5, up by 4.5 percentage points over the previous month even as housing takes a beating from a new 20% tax on used home sales and a ban on same-city second home purchases in Beijing.
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The Non-Strategic Assets Portfolio segment offers commercial residential development loans, cross-border leases, consumer brokered home equity loans, retail mortgages, non-prime mortgages, and residential construction loans.
Nevertheless, many environmentalists fiercely resist any moves to ease arbitrary, prohibitive barriers to the construction of the best non-carbon-dioxide-producing energy source of all: nuclear power plants.
That's become an increasingly derogatory term among Afghans, who use it to describe everything from non-profit aid agencies to private security and construction companies.
Ravenswood Bank was extremely overexposed to construction and development loans and nonfarm non-residential real estate loans, which I explained to you last week ( see FDIC Bags Five more Banks).
The company's products are used by diverse consumer and industrial markets, including flexible and rigid packaging, automotive products, coatings, residential and commercial construction as well as other durable and non-durable goods.
But not everyone gets a break: those working on construction of the venues (UK residents and non-residents) will have to pay taxes just as always.
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At a campaign-style event in Miami, Obama said strengthening the nation's infrastructure should be a non-partisan issue because it helps American business and creates jobs for the construction industry.
Despite an uptick in residential construction starts this year, activity is still about 50% lower than a healthy (non-bubble) market requires.
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Among reports of recent weeks that came in better than forecasts were consumer sentiment, retail sales, home sales, construction spending, auto sales, factory orders, the ISM Mfg Index, the ISM Non-Mfg (service sector) Index, and so on.
No outsider knows the percentages of non-performing loans at the big four banks of China, including the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and China Construction Bank.
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