High default rates on construction loans were a major contributor to bank failures during the recession.
Meanwhile, the housing market continues to slump, with home-builders sharply cutting back on construction projects.
Bechtel, an American company, has a team of engineers in Gurgaon working on construction projects worldwide.
Moreover, he has observed that initial estimates on construction projects tend to be optimistic.
GDP, not bad by European standards even after stripping out the half spent on construction.
Investors fear it will suffer big losses on construction and development loans in southern California and Nevada.
Horton (nyse: DHI - news - people ) have pulled back sharply on construction.
Unlike Minecraft, which mainly focuses on construction, Brick-Force has an emphasis on the combat side of the genre.
Many passengers are Korean-speaking Chinese, who have gone to South Korea to work in factories or on construction projects.
It does not apply to those working on construction of the Olympic venues.
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But the really important figure on construction will be the one for December, according to Alan Clarke at Scotiabank.
The question now is whether, if public spending on construction falls, the private sector will pick up the slack.
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The 50-year-old rifleman has worked on construction sites, power stations and car parks.
Nearly every surface encourages you to consume: bus kiosks, store windows, taxi toppers, handmade signs plastered on construction site walls.
Henri Christophe embarked on construction of his palace in 1810 and a year later declared himself king in northern Haiti.
Yamana expects feasibility work to be completed by 2014, where they will then take a decision on construction for 2015.
During the retrofitting of the facility, 50-75 workers assisted on construction, helping the hotel and restaurant industries in Mexico, MO.
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Harsh Quebec winters usually have an impact on construction but with a fairly tame winter, plans have gone off without issue.
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Finally, just before the long weekend, we get consumer sentiment, the ISM Manufacturing Index and the monthly reading on construction spending.
The issues of which areas will be rebuilt and a proposed four-month moratorium on construction proved to be the most contentious.
Cristian is building a new house by the main road, with money he made from working on construction sites in Spain.
China has become all the more important with orders shrinking in the U.S. as the subprime debacle takes its toll on construction.
"Chinese migrants or former labourers on construction sites are opening shops, using their contacts to get cheap goods from China, " he says.
The homeowner's tax incentive generates new sales tax revenue on building materials, not to mention added income tax revenue on construction workers' salaries.
Further interest-rate cuts and heavier public spending on construction and defence, and possibly more tax cuts, should support the economy by next year.
After federal laws limited big choppers, some developers sent photographers 150 feet up on construction cranes or took pictures from different floors of nearby existing buildings.
San'ya is one of Japan's biggest yoseba, a neighbourhood where day labourers gather early in the morning to pick up work on construction sites.
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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Instead of moping, he took one of the first paying jobs he could find: unskilled labor on construction sites in the metro New York area.
Travellers can choose a one- or two-week trip, run in partnership with Let Haiti Live, where they help on construction projects and participate in summer youth camps.
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