Nonresidential Quotes

There was continuing strength in mining, equipment manufacturing, nonresidential construction and utilities... Against that, residential construction, parts of agriculture and both wholesale and retail report poor and falling business conditions. - Alan Oster

There is infrastructure spending in SA on roads, hospitals and housing. In Australia there is demand for resources, infrastructure and nonresidential. In the UK, government spending has increased on education and health care. These are all good indicators for Waco. - Waco CEO Royden Vice

The story is one of continuing boom conditions in mining and very strong nonresidential construction activity... The Reserve Bank is still very much on hold, watching both the inflation outlook and domestic demand. - Alan Oster

Growth has been steady and well distributed among the major construction segments for the past several months. For the first 11 months of 2005, total construction was nine percent higher than in same months of 2004. Private residential construction grew 11 percent, public construction, eight percent, and private nonresidential, five percent. - Ken Simonson

For the construction workers, there will be probably not be so much work in new residential building, but there will be work in nonresidential building and there will also be work in reconstruction projects in the hurricane-affected areas. It's a mixed bag for construction. - Nigel Gault

For 2006, I expect to see healthy demand for nonresidential construction but also double-digit price increases for many construction inputs. I expect continuing spot shortages of cement that will push concrete prices higher nationwide. - Ken Simonson

Availability is going to be even more of a problem in 2006 than it was in 2005. In 2005 you had spot shortages. In 2006, nonresidential construction is growing and capacity is not expanding to meet those needs. - Ken Simonson

As was the case for most of the year, growth was well distributed among the major construction segments. Comparing December 2005 to December 2004, public construction grew 10%, private residential construction rose 9.0%, and private nonresidential was up 6.0%. For the year, those categories increased 8.0%, 11%, and 5.0%, respectively. - Ken Simonson