The recession is having impacts on construction in ways that may not, at first, be readily apparent. For example, electric power usage in North America is currently in what might be termed a brief hiatus. Longer-term, it is hard to image that the need for electricity can be anything but expansive. This will be particularly true for power that can be generated in an environmentally friendly way. However, in the short-term, with raw materials production and manufacturing in recessionary decline, power usage has dropped.

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