The government has encouraged banks to offer lower mortgage rates for first-time home buyers, called on developers to increase construction of smaller and cheaper apartments, and is tolerating moves by some cash-hungry municipal and provincial governments to loosen property restrictions at the local level.
In July, he pardoned 19 convicted criminals, including several who had been exonerated, and in August called a special legislative session to consider reducing state construction costs in order to increase money for schools.
Finally, since it produces products relating to refining and construction, Grace is poised to benefit from any economic recovery in terms of construction and an increase in the world demand for oil.
To increase volume, some lenders are turning their attention back to construction companies, which are dependent on bank loans for development projects.
However, the target date to increase the exports to 40 bcm has been pushed back to 2015 because the construction of an additional pipeline has been delayed.
Existing terminals can take in 617 billion cubic metres a year, says the IEA, and others under construction should increase that to 846 billion cubic metres by 2010.
According to CEO Jamie Sokalsky, the increase in total construction cost at Pascua Lama can be split approximately equally between the impact of the delay of first gold production to the second half of 2014, increased labor hours and installation rates.
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In a rapidly growing city such as Ahmedabad, simply legalizing construction on peripheral land is bound to increase its value.
For December, Intuit noted construction was the sole industry to see a revenue increase at 0.3%.
Aside from the obvious fact that any such tax would be passed along to consumers in the form of even higher fuel costs, such an artificial increase to the operating costs of every personal, business and construction vehicle used in the country would have a chilling effect on our fragile economic recovery.
Democrats generally want even more money, arguing with 1 million construction workers unemployed, Republicans are missing an opportunity to increase the job rolls.
Perhaps, the increase in multifamily construction that began two years ago will begin to reverse that trend, but it will be close.
As with office and retail, projects under construction are at a record 10-year low due to an increase in corporate spending would accelerate the strengthening of industrial market fundamentals.
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Private residential construction companies saw sales increase 3.6 percent from December 2011 to December 2012, according to preliminary data from Sageworks Inc.
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You can increase the number of jobs by outlawing heavy construction equipment and requiring construction workers to use shovels.
Pew estimates that net migration -- newly arrived immigrants minus those leaving (forced or voluntarily) -- has come to a standstill, which it attributes to the weakened U.S. job and construction markets, border enforcement, an increase in deportations, and increased dangers associated with crossing the border.
Huddersfield builder Trish Nutall, who has run Jo Simon construction for six years, fears the increase in tax will be no help to preserving important buildings.
The highest increase in sales occurred in North America among all geographies driven in part by improving construction activity but also to equipment and fleet upgrades.
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