Archive: Aug 2008

Archive: Aug 2008

ROI

We commonly use a particular phrase when formally weighing a decision to expend funds for a particular purchase or capital expenditure. "Return on Investment" (ROI) is often invoked to compare…

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PCA downgrades construction forecast

Although not technically in a recession, the Portland Cement Association (PCA) predicts that an increasing unemployment rate, higher inflation, and low consumer sentiment will combine to have lingering negative effects…

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Demand for outplacement services increases

During the last six months, ZweigWhite, a provider of management consulting services and business information to the architecture, engineering, and environmental consulting industries and publisher of Civil Connection, has observed…

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