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As residential construction screeched to a halt with the Office 2007 collapse of the housing industry, builders who relied on it for the bulk of their work have found themselves turning more and more to other types of projects.

Construction companies have had to slash jobs to stay afloat, at the same time that the bidding competition for public and commercial jobs became increasingly Microsoft Office 2007 fierce. That means that when a company does get a job, it's often not paid as much as it used to be, though the cost of materials remains high, those in the industry say.

In the Tucson area, there were 14,600 jobs for construction workers Office 2010 , says the University of Arizona Eller College of Management's Economic and Business Research Center. That's a 12 percent drop from 2009, when the area had 16,600. And that year had already seen a 27 percent drop in construction jobs from 2008, the data show.

From 2002 to 2006, the company - which had done work on highways as well as in both the commercial and residential sectors - focused strictly on home building, Allen said.

The company had about Office 2007 download 600 full-time-equivalent employees at the peak of the housing market. Now it has less than half that number.Borderland began looking for more work in the public sector a few years ago. But even in that market, competition increased, with companies from Phoenix undercutting local contractors' bids, Allen said. Jim Koedyker, of Koedyker & Kenyon Construction Inc., said his company also focused solely on homebuilding during the peak Office 2007 Professional as subdivisions proliferated around Tucson. "Housing construction was king in the boom," he said.

Like Borderland, Koedyker & Kenyon saw its employment numbers peaking at the start of 2007 with more than 600 workers. Now the company employs about a third of that, according to the latest figures the company submitted for the Star 200. The crunch really started to hit Koedyker & Kenyon in 2008, Koedyker MS Office 2007 said. At that point the company turned to commercial work, but pickings have been slim and competition intense.

Like companies in other industries, his has had to do Office 2007 Ultimate more with less. Even employees who've been with the company for 30 years had to step away from their office jobs to head to construction sites as staffing levels fell, Koedyker said.