Showing posts with label construction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label construction. Show all posts

Decline of construction in Bulgaria

Bulgaria is among the countries with the largest decline in construction in June

For the tenth consecutive month Bulgaria ranks in the top three EU countries with the largest decline in new construction. This show Eurostat data for the construction sector of the EU in June.In this month Bulgaria reported 17.5% decline on an annual basis in its new building.

Larger decreases in June recorded only Hungary and Slovenia. Since September last year, Bulgaria every month located among the three countries, where annual new construction declined the most. The largest decline recorded our country in December, when the index plummeted 33.3% yoy.

A monthly basis (compared to May) the new construction in Bulgaria, however, reported growth of 0.2 percent. This corresponds with a monthly increase of construction in the EU from 3.5%. In some countries such as Romania, is adjusted monthly growth of over 16%.

Steady increase compared to May shows and new construction in Spain, which increased by over 7 percent (and annual - with more than 18%). Zhilishshtniyat sector of the country suffer even before the economy went into recession. This led to a decline in property prices, financial problems for many construction companies and growth in unemployment among Spaniards - currently the second highest after that in Latvia.

Pan-European data show that annually, on a monthly basis and there is growth in constructing a building within the EU. Over the past 12 months the new building is maintained primarily by infrastructure projects, while construction of buildings declined dramatically.

Therefore, these data can be taken as a signal that investment in property recovered smoothly after declined substantially in 2009 In June, constructing a building in the EU increased by 7.5% annually, but growth in the euro area is 6.4 cent.

Some of the most expensive real estate markets - such as the British already seen a small increase in housing prices. According to GDP data express the EU economy has expanded in the second quarter by 1.7% yoy. This is the biggest growth in gross product of the union since the economic crisis.

Despite these statistics, some analyst companies such as Yurokonstrakt "not optimistic. A month ago the agency launched an analysis in which the expected construction sector in Europe to shrink this year.

In 19 European countries with the largest construction market is expected to decline in the sector of 4% by end of 2010 because the suspension of state aid and the economy slow recovery. The construction sector in these countries declined by 3.1 percent in 2008 to 8.8 percent in 2009 and is expected to start growing before 2011, according to economists' Yurokonstrakt.

Yet another real estate lawsuit

It seems that there are at least one group of professionals profiting from the real estate slump-----lawyers. The developers of Sullivan Square, a large green high rise project are suing their equity partner, Harcourt Nevada.

Now there is a suit pending against D. R. Horton filed by real estate developer and two other home builders. The suit is alleging breach of contract for failing meet funding obligations for the Park Highlands community in North Las Vegas. The agreement that they are claiming DRHI violated stated that they were to fund 20% of the backbone infrastructure costs via regular monthly payments. The plaintiffs are claiming DRHI is more than $4 million in arears.

Construction of Park Highlands commenced in January of 2007 and despite the lawsuit, the plaintiffs state that the project is going forward.

Construction worker found dead at CityCenter

This past Saturday a construction worker was found dead at the CityCenter project. The man was identified as Mark Wescoat, an electrician from New Jersey working for Fisk Electric. He reported in for work at 6 am and about a half hour later he had fallen to his death from the 27th floor down to the 25th. This is the fifth construction death at CityCenter (last year there were four fatalities). OSHA has been called in to investigate and there has been no comment from MGM Mirage. In the prior cases, OSHA found numerous safety violations. The project has work crews there working around the clock to meet their November 2009 opening date.

Perhaps its time for CityCenter to put the safety of its workers ahead of its time table. Unfortunately, its not uncommon for their to be a death at a large construction site. However, to give you some perspective, only one worker died working on the Eiffel Tower in the late 1800's but 114 workers died during construction of Hoover Dam.



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Another Accident at Fontainebleau