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Customers looking to take advantage of the high-quality construction of a Walters Buildings product can now enjoy significant savings by placing advance orders for pole building construction projects to be delivered between January 1 and March 1, 2007. Allenton, WI (PRWEB) October 7, 2006 -- Customers looking to take advantage of the high-quality construction of a Walters Buildings product can now enjoy significant savings by placing advance orders for pole building construction projects to be delivered between January 1 and March 1, 2007.
The Winter Construction Discounts apply for most building sites that are prepared in advance and located within 50 miles of a Walters's construction center or authorized Walters dealer. All Walters Buildings products are available at the reduced prices, including metal buildings and pole construction for commercial storage buildings, storage sheds, cattle barns, municipal pole buildings, specialty animal barns, pole warehouses, customed pole framed structure, pole construction for churches, airplane hangars and residential storage pole buildings.
HONOLULU (AP) _ A University of Hawaii economic study says Hawaii's construction boom will likely end next year, leading to declines in construction projects and jobs.
The U-H Economic Research Organization forecast is the first to predict an end to the construction industry growth that has a major force behind the state's economic expansion.
The report says Hawaii should lose about 400 construction jobs next year _ that's about 1 percent of the industry's nearly 36-thousand workers.
More jobs could be lost in 2008.
The report says residential construction will drop off gradually because home prices have largely stopped appreciating.
It adds the lack of affordable home buying options will also limit construction.
The Scottish Construction Forum has welcomed the announcement that new academies will be set up to lead skills and training in traditional trades. The plans by First Minister Jack McConnell will remove thousands of pupils aged 14 and over from traditional school who are not responding to traditional academic learning. Up to 100 new centres are proposed either on school site or at further education colleges. The move is seen as a radical solution to deal with the thousands of school leavers who leave education with no qualifications. .
While Shakopee continues to be among the leaders in housing starts in the Twin Cities metropolitan area, housing construction in the region is showing signs rapidly decreasing, according to the Builders Association of the Twin Cities. In September, the association reported, there was a 49 percent decrease in the number of permits issued and a 48 percent drop in planned units compared to the same month last year. In September there were 417 permits issued in the metropolitan area, compared to 626 in August and 814 in September 2005. There were permits issued for 759 units last month, compared to 1,455 last year. The drop can also be seen in the year-to-date figures through September. For the first nine months of the year, there were 5,909 permits for 10,168 total units, compared to 7,655 permits and 13,153 units in 2005.
Clean-up crews in Manhattan were hard at work Friday morning after a construction crane tipped over. It happened on Highway 24, just north of Manhattan at the Riley County Public Works' new facility. No information as to what caused the accident was available. .
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