Bautischler expect continued growth
The construction sector can not continue to look forward to growth, Neal Fried, economist working for the State Department of Labor and Workforce Development. The industry is a stability in the years 1990, that, unlike the “Boom and Bust” the activity of previous decades.
“The sector has surprisingly stable,” said Fried. “There is no reason to believe that next year will be different.”
Dick Cattanach, Executive Director of the Associated General Contractors of Alaska, and concluded that the industry should be based on equal rights during the last year.
The two men also suggested that the Confederation quality would be a driving force behind the construction during the next year.
“We will see less private construction and more weight on the public sector,” said Cattanach.
The missile defence system in the renovation Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport and army replacement Bassett hospital near Fairbanks continues at the top of Alaska Charts as the biggest construction project for the year 2003.
President Bush withdrawing from the ABM Treaty with the former Soviet Union last June the path of construction to begin on anti-missile defence systems in Alaska. The $ 250 million project, now known as Ground-based Midcourse Defense project received during last summer and is available for the conclusion, on September 2004.
According to a report by the Army Corps of Engineers, about 25 per cent of the work at Fort Greely and 20 percent work in Eareckson Air Station on Shemya Island is complete. This means that most of the work will continue in 2003.
Lt. Col. Jay Smith, chief of staff of the command activation of the site of Fort Richardson, said the project employs 800 civilian workers this year.
President Bush announced on December 17, it limited the supply of a defense system during the year 2004. The system would also ground 10 interceptor missiles, six of them would be at Fort Greely. Work on silos at the Maison des interceptors began last summer and Lt. Col. Smith expressed confidence that the system would be ready, the date set by Bush.
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