Advances or retentions received from construction contracts.

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- Definition

The decrease in contract assets resulting from impairment. [Refer: Contract assets; Impairment loss]

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- Definition

Line items represent concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes of the table.

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No definition available.

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- Definition

The amount of an entity’s right to consideration in exchange for goods or services that the entity has transferred to a customer that is unconditional. A right to consideration is unconditional if only the passage of time is required before payment of that consideration is due.

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Contract Assets - Additional Information (Detail) - USD ($)	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2020	Dec. 31, 2019	Jan. 01, 2019
Disclosure Of Financial Instruments [Line Items]
Advances or retentions received from construction contracts	$ 0	$ 0
Receivables from contracts with customers, balance			$ 1,510,000
SDI [Member]
Disclosure Of Financial Instruments [Line Items]
Decrease through impairment, contract assets	$ 0