McGraw-Hill Construction tracks the dollar value of
construction starts in the United States and reports monthly. The recent December
report included full-year 2011 figures, as shown in the table below:
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McGraw-Hill noted that the dollar value of starts in 2010
rose 1% over the 2009 total. So, for all practical purposes, the company’s
starts data—which provides a bit of a look ahead into the construction
industry’s near-term future—has been flat for three years.
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