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How's Your Market?

(OP)
Just wondering what the Civil and Structural engineering markets are doing across the country in the following areas:

"Regular" housing (under $500K Seattle Market)

High End Housing

Commercial / Retail

Multi-Family

Industrial

Any input appreciated.  (I will be forwarding this string to Bush).  - just kidding.  Trying to get a better feel for what's happening out there.

Mike McCann
McCann Engineering

RE: How's Your Market?

The "rust belt" here in the midwest is rusting again.  We have a glut of empty structures around for lease/sale.  The real estate portion of our Sunday paper had expanded into 3 sections for a while until local agencies just stopped listing everything.  Still there are people building more trying to capitalize I suppose on "new" vs "older" buildings/homes.

Regards,

RE: How's Your Market?

In the mid-south, the industrial sector that I am in is on fire.  The engineering firms and contractors can't come up for air and can't find enough bodies to do the work.

Things are going well...

I can't speak for the other industries, but I do know that there is a glut of brand new, complete, $400-$700k homes standing empty.



If you "heard" it on the internet, it's guilty until proven innocent. - DCS

RE: How's Your Market?

Which country?  Australia is going great guns in just about every civil and structural category, capital cities in states benefitting from the resources boom particularly so.

RE: How's Your Market?

DaveMinter,

Thanks for the tip, maybe I will go back home afterall.

Dont come to New York, the salaries are not really proportionate to the cost of living.

csd

RE: How's Your Market?

Where is the MID-South? I might want to work this winter.

Richard A. Cornelius, P.E.
WWW.amlinereast.com

RE: How's Your Market?

(OP)
Brazil - at the equator.

Mike McCann
McCann Engineering

RE: How's Your Market?

Sorry, don't want to work that bad.

Richard A. Cornelius, P.E.
WWW.amlinereast.com

RE: How's Your Market?

The Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi industrial corridor is what I'm primarily speaking of.  Even better if you have oil and gas experience.  $88 a barrel makes for a bunch of infrastructure dollars...



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