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“Foreign contractors are becom
ing increasingly active in the U.S.
construction market,” says Dr. John
Epling, associate professor of con
struction science at Texas A&M.
Epling says foreign contractors
are not taking over the American
market, but are competing success
fully.
“If trends continue as they are,
they (foreign contractors) will be
come more effective as time goes
by,” he says.
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Epling says he is aware of several
instances where the American con
struction industry didn’t have the
technology to produce a project and
had to turn it down. Foreign con
tractors, who did have the technol
ogy, got the job.
“Part of the problem is that Amer
ican contractors are not advancing as
they have the capacity to,” he says.
“American contractors need the
will to move forward in the indus
try,” Epling says.
Many foreign contractors are sub
sidized by their government, and
foreign laborers cost less to use than
American laborers. This is one of
the main reasons foreign contractors
are getting the jobs in the United
States.
The foreign laborers are fed and
housed by the contractors; they just
sleep and work, Epling says. The
American construction industry is
competing with a system unlike its
own.
“The American industry needs to
find a way to compete while main
taining its free political, economic
and social structure,” he says.
American contractors need more
effective leadership and need to be
better informed and better educated
in order to rise to the top again, he
says.
A&M’s construction science de
partment is helping to educate stu
dents so these needs can be mei
A&M is educating the d
builders of tomorrow, Eplingw?
Many people don’t realized)!
construction industry doesnii
build houses and buildings,ilbi|
anything from garages to i®
power plants, he says.
Construction industry mais
mem techniques are becomini
creasingly recognized in the Lib
States, he said, and American I
tractors are very good in mai*
ment leadership.
In several instances, Amtii
contractors have worked witk
eign contractors because there
need for the managementexpfi
of American contractors, he saw
Working together is good
can relieve some of the tensiot
competition, he says.
A&M’s construction science
part ment was one of the first 1
kind in the United States, awl
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contact lens prescription must be exact.
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completely comfortable.
Yet every year people spend fortunes
on contacts, put diem away in a drawer
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Because they’re uncomfortable.
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These people have never been to
Texas State Optical.
Survey shows troubled real estate causing
problems for Texas banks, not oil as thoug
DALLAS (AP) — Troubled real
estate assets became the major prob
lem of troubled Texas banks during
1986, a recent analysis shows.
“The way we look at the data, it is
more of a real estate problem than
an energy problem,” said Alex She-
shunoff, principal of Sheshunoff
Rating Services Inc.
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Problem loans jumped 46 percent
to $6.5 billion in 1986, forcing the
state’s 1,968 banks to pile up a com
bined loss of $883.2 million for the
year, the Austin firm reported.
“This will not be quickly resolved
with the change in the price of oil,”
Sheshunoff said. “All those build
ings will not be Tilled with geolog
ists.”
Texas had the sixth-largest
amount of non-performing loans of
any state when measured as a per
cent of gross loans. But Texas had
the second-fastest-growing level of
troubled loans, even faster than
Louisiana and Oklahoma, which also
have been buffeted by energy and
agriculture problems.
Sheshunoff said there were some
positive signs that bank analysts see
for Texas banks.
Oil prices have firmed to*
$18 per barrel. Also, the state!
ulation growth is above then!
average, the unemployment n | |
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