Business Plan Question 4 Opportunities & Threats
Opportunities
Federal government have emphasized the importance of investing into automobile, semiconductor, alternative and other transportation equipment manufacturing facilities from 2009 to 2011, causing the construction industry to have increasing growth and It is expected that the industry growth will continue for five more years. Due to the weak dollar and fast economic expansion in many developing countries, more and more foreign companies choose to locate their manufacturing operations in the United States. The diminished value of the US collar increases the foreign demand for US products. CB&I also have seen these opportunities.
Public Private Partnerships
Public-Private partnership involves a contract between a public sector authority and private sector companies, in which the private party provides a public service or project and assumes risks such as operational risk in the project. The energy and transportation industries are listed as the top of attractive projects to be considered under public-private partnership. By using a public-private partnership, instead of using a traditional method, could increase the money available for those large infrastructures and construction projects and complete the project more efficiently at a lower cost.
Supply chain management
Successful construction supply-chain management provides with new measures to reduce the cost of large construction projects and increase the efficiency of facility construction. Supply-chain management seeks global optimization of the production activities has a systems view of these activities. Applications of supply-chain management techniques in manufacturing environments have saved hundreds of millions of dollars while improving the quality and speed of construction projects.
Renewable energy projects
Renewable energy projects takes use of the rescores form nature,