• Bumps in earlier months from nuclear plant construction dropped out, and total construction in May and June looked normal and slightly ahead of the 2011 pace.
• Nonresidential building was down slightly, residential continued to rise and nonbuilding construction was even.
• The Dodge Index, which uses work in 2000 to set a level of 100, was at 94 in June. May had been 95.

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New construction starts in June slipped 1% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $446.1 billion, according to McGraw-Hill Construction, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies. ...