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Retail and office drive construction starts
Nonresidential construction starts reached $152.2 billion for the first half of 2007, up 19.7 percent compared to the same period last year, according to a July 16 report from Reed Construction Data. However, steep, continuing declines in residential construction will offset gains from the nonresidential segment, according to the report … read more
Bad glass confiscated in the Philippines
The Department of Trade and Industry of the Philippines confiscated and destroyed about 2,000 square feet of substandard glass from flat glass dealers in the city of Cebu, according to a July 19 article from SunStar.com.
DTI worked with the Philippine Product Safety and Quality Foundation Inc. and the Flat Glass Alliance of the Philippines Inc. to warn against manufacturing and selling substandard products, according to the article … read more
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