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2. U.S. Construction in International Competition
2. U.S. Construction in International Competition
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firms competing in the global market are generally very large employers (by construction industry standards) and are key players in the international competition.
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Domestically, the construction industry consists of many small firms that respond to externally determined demand!
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Stone, brick, and timber were used for buildings, and infrastructure was rudimentary. By the end of the nineteenth century, a "second generation" of essentially urban inventions (structural steel frames, the elevator, electrical systems, sewer and water systems, indoor plumbing, central heating, the telephone, the automobile and highway, and the subway)
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During the war, the United States had created the impressive organizational capacity of the military construction arm of the Army Corps of Engineers and the Navy Seabees. With the development of multinational corporations, which became clients for construction projects in other countries, a further incentive was added for other U.S.
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The Saudis had enjoyed a close relationship with the United States since the early phases of Aramco and during World War IT. Because Saudi Arabia did not have any of the requisite technological capability or project management expertise, its national leaders turned to the United States.
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The CII estimates are larger for the industrial market sector and the electric power sector because of enforces accounts, that is work done by the employed staff of industrial firms and therefore not publicly bid or counted in census data which are largely based on records of building permits. 29 The design and construction industry is organized around market sectors that are widely different in terms of the type of customer, the method of financing, the work force used, and even the level of technology.
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The federal, state, and local government sectors generally attract firms that concentrate on government work because of the special marketing skills, and sometimes special political visibility, needed to gain work from governmental units. While government contracting requires open bidding, it is not always possible or desirable for many construction firms to bid on such work.
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W Kellogg Company, Houston, Texas The Parsons Corporation, Pasadena, California Bechtel Group, Inc., San Francisco, California Brown and Root, Inc., Houston, Texas Lummus Crest, Inc., Bloomfield, New Jersey Foster Wheeler Corporation, Livingston, New Jersey Fluor Daniel, Inane, California Santa Fe Braun, Inc., Alhambra, California Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation, Boston, Massachusetts Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc., Pasadena, California Kaiser Engineers, Inc., Oakland, California Dillingham Construction Corporation, Pleasanton, California Fru-Con Coloration, Baldwin, Missouri Kiew~t Construction Group, Inc., Omaha, Nebraska 5,085.0 3,823.3 3,439.0 1,818.3 1,760.0 1,219.0 985.3 630.0 428.0 275.5 267.7 169.3 159.5 147.2 Note: Of the total global construction market of $73.9 billion (available for bids from outside of client country)
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Louis, Missouri Williams Brothers Eng~neenng Company, Tulsa, Oklahoma aAE = architect/engineer; EA = engineer/architect; and CE = consulting engineer. ~BAA-~ Note: Of the total global volume of $3,543 million in design fees available to design firms from outside the client country, 49 American firms captured some $917 million (25.9 percent)
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In the five years from 1978 to 1982, the number of foreign design and construction firms entering the U.S. domestic market grew annually at rates of almost 8 percent and 13 percent, respectively (see Table 83.
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While total foreign work in the United States is only about 2 percent of the domestic market, it ~ concentrated in the large and technically complex areas of work that have been the mainstay of U.S. international business.
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Over the past 20 years and more, Ohbayashi Corporation has built clams, tunnels, offices, and residential projects in the United States. Founded in 1892 by Yoshigoro Ohbayashi, the company has been among the Big Five Japanese construction companies, which include KaJima, Taisei, Shimizu, and Taken aka Komuten.
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project, OAC undertook banks, offices, restaurants, and housing contracts, mostly for Japanese clients In 1976, Ohbayashi participated in developing a ~arge-scaie residentia] complex near Seattle, Washington This was a joint venture with Tokyo Corporation The 11,000-acre site in Mill Creek includes a golf course, shopping center, and 3,200 housing units In 1979, Ohbayashi Corporation formed a joint venture with a local company to bid for a San Francisco sewage tunnel project, the first U S public work Ohbayashi was to undertake Expertise in soft ground, using the earth pressure balance shield]
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. To compete and to do joint ventures with Americans for heavy construction work where Ohbayashi may have useful tunneling or dam-building expertise.
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