A volatile stock market is among th...

A volatile stock market is among the uncertainties this sector faces

Industrial buildings are a steady source of work for many designers and contractors in the nonresidential building field -- and should remain in such a manner in 1999. But many on-lookers are looking, at best, for activity to simply equal that of 1998.

Construction industry management consultant FMI Corp. forecasts that industrial building construction will decline by dint of 5 percent in 1999 (see chart). It awaits construction expenditures for U.S. industrial buildings to total $96 billion this year, down from an estimated