The right Class B or C building--despite its shoddier construction and pedestrian ZIP code--can work just fine, even after factoring in costs to upgrade the space, says Maura Cochran, principal at Hartford, Conn.
Activity data in the UK construction industry fell quicker than expected last month, driven mostly by the weakness in house-building (PMI construction: 48.7 from 49.3 in November).
One afternoon, Lauren's class was building cardboard and construction-paper models of New York landmarks, a lesson that leads up to the challenge of building 3-D models in the computer.
We passed a warehouse-like building under construction where several men in hard hats were at work.
In March 2011, Shanghai is hosting the 4th Annual Ultra-High-rise Building Summit -- which extols the merits of high-rise construction.
Of course our governors can encourage or mandate certain activities or stimulate or direct particular undertakings--land for railroad building in the 19th century, highway construction and space exploration in this one--but that's a far cry from directing the whole economy.
The province now boasts more than 5, 000 native-owned businesses, some of them joint-ventures, ranging from pipeline construction and timber production to hotels and boat-building.
The city is celebrating the three-year mark by showcasing the event's centerpiece -- the under-construction Olympic Park -- and highlighting the progress made on everything from building work to transportation to getting sponsorship money.
But the weakness in non-residential construction spending in Europe and North America has impacted growth from Asia in the building-related businesses of the company.
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Yet as suburban construction ended, cities continued building high-density urban housing--sometimes encouraged by city subsidies.
But their chief concern at the moment is the security of a Chinese construction firm which is building a hydro-power project on the Indus river in the Dubair area of Kohistan.
Mr. MARK SHMUGER (Chairman, Universal Pictures): Yeah, animals, water, children, gigantic construction, you know, building a Bible-sized ark.
Construction on a four-story sister building, with 20, 000 square feet of retail space and 86 rental units, will start around November.
What he didn't say was that he'd already collected money from building-products trusts based on his claims of being a construction worker.
New-building approvals ground to a halt, and new construction fell by 40%.
Contractors Bowmer and Kirkland will be building the velodrome and construction of the 5, 000-seat facility is expected to take between 18 and 24 months.
By 1970, at only 26 years old, he owned about 100 apartments in Las Vegas and had begun work on his first new construction, a 40-unit apartment building.
Binyamin Netanyahu, the present prime minister, strikes a deal not only with Hamas but responds to Mr Abbas's pleas for a freeze on Jewish settlement-building in the West Bank with a surge in construction.
Among those trends is a steadily improving housing market, which got another dose of good news Wednesday with a better-than-expected rise in new construction starts and building permits in September, both hitting the best levels since July 2008.
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Several eco-friendly construction and design features helped the building earn a total of 43 points towards LEED Gold certification including the use of materials with recycled content, regionally sourced materials, energy efficiency upgrades and windows with a special coating to reduce heat transmission.
It makes steel bars which reinforce cement used in the construction industry - no doubt the downturn in building projects hasn't helped the company's fortunes.
In these places, construction is held back by slow-growing (Providence, Long Island) or declining (Detroit) populations or by already-high densities and building restrictions that leave fewer options for new construction (Orange County, CA).
So, standby for a boost to house-building or, rather, yet another government attempt to stimulate the construction sector, which shrank by almost 8% last year.
Abbas says he won't return to negotiations without an Israeli construction freeze, arguing that Israel's building on war-won land pre-empts the outcome of talks on a border between Israel and a future state of Palestine.
While housing construction and other building will take time to return to pre-financial-crash levels, the repair and restoration side of this industry is doing well, particularly since those who have had their buildings foreclosed upon are stripping gutters and other exposed metal for recycling.
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Lacking a royal patron, he created the position and the role of l'architecte du roi for himself, holding court, dispensing favors, creating reputations, masterminding moves in careers and construction, building prominently and expensively for wealthy and corporate clients -- and, above all, decreeing the next big thing.
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We keep investing in wind and solar, clean coal technology, farmers and scientists harnessing new biofuels to power our cars and trucks, construction workers building homes and factories that are more energy efficient -- developing a hundred years' supply of natural gas. (Applause.) We can cut our oil imports in half by 2020 and support more than 600, 000 new jobs in natural gas alone.
Building permits, a sign of future construction, unexpectedly fell to a one-year low.
In New York City, where the company has finished seven projects since 2003, Toll has nearly completed construction on the Touraine, a 22-unit luxury condominium building.
The court heard Mr Pickles decided in July to revoke the regional strategies, which include house-building targets, introduced under the 2009 Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act.
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