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While I watch my Dad — a life-long second-generation upstate New York General Construction Company owner — scratch his head over where the next big building project might come from in the slumping economy, I am reminded of the booming construction market that exists not only in the United Arab Emirates, but also India, Russia, China, and in other developed or developing parts of the globe. Okay, so my Dad's a little old fashioned. He tends to look for work only within a 50-mile radius of his company headquarters. But a friend and contemporary of mine has now decided to start brokering construction projects the world over, and he's doing much of it from his Manhattan-based office. For him, running a construction firm is like fishing: you go where the fish are. With non-residential construction in the U.S. down from where it was last year, and next year looking to be worse, how can you as an engineering and/or construction professional shift gears in order to take advantage of overseas construction markets? How would it benefit the world's builders and engineers to begin thinking globally rather than locally?
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