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I was surprised to see most construction sites only have one shift working. Sites work around 8->4, 5 days a week. Not sure if that is city regulation or union workforce.

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Noise ordinances. Waiting on city inspectors. Working capital. Labor doesn’t care to work overnight and those that do get paid a lot more.

With interest rates low, easier to just hold construction note for another year.

That’s when most people want to work. Do you want to work 4-midnight or midnight-8? Even if you do, many other people don’t want the noise of a working construction site at those hours.

I regularly work until midnight. I'd think lots of construction people are young and/or immigrants without families here. If you offered them a night shift with overtime pay is a good choice.

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