Home construction might be flagging, but industrial construction--office buildings, schools, airports, bridges--is poised for growth.
But projects such as the Bahnstadt show the energy revolution and European efficiency goals "have put very low energy buildings much more strongly in investors' focus, " said Stephan Sperl, a spokesman for German state lender KfW Bankengruppe, which offers low-interest construction loans for energy-efficient residential buildings.
Earlier this year, I announced a Better Buildings Initiative to rehire construction workers to make our buildings more energy-efficient.
To make sure there are no surprises post-construction, models of tall buildings and those surrounding it are sometimes tested inside mathematically accurate wind tunnels, meant to replicate conditions in the real world.
Construction crews working on high-rise rental buildings roam the area as joggers make their way through a newly opened portion of the waterfront.
Construction crews are swarming over new high-rise buildings in Seattle and big suburban areas such as Bellevue.
There are still plenty of hard-hat-only areas where construction workers are erecting bridges between buildings, turning paved areas into grassy outdoor gathering places and otherwise sprucing up and modernizing the facilities.
But multi-unit buildings accounted for the highest share of construction activity in New York (91%) and San Francisco (90%).
On a recent day, hard-hat construction workers were inspecting the Art Deco and Belle Epoque buildings, which are classified as historical monuments.
Al-Sanea has made most of his fortune investing in construction and finance, particularly by securing contracting deals for the construction of residential and industrial buildings near Saudi Arabia's Al-Khobar region.
Private companies working on everything from the foundation to the roof of buildings are generating double-digit sales growth as the construction sector strengthens, according to data from Sageworks, a financial information company.
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Glassy buildings glint in the hot sun, as cranes and foreign construction-workers line the shores of Tripoli and Benghazi, Libya's first and second cities, where stretches of sand stood empty a few years ago.
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Reducing water use at its buildings, cutting down on non-essential travel and the construction of modern energy efficient stations to replace existing ones have been among suggestions of the ways in which HIFRS could cut CO2 emissions.
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Its core business remains homebuilding, which deals with the construction and sale of homes that include single-family attached and detached homes and multi-level residential buildings.
"It's very, very confined, and no construction work went on, or no clean up went on in this 18-inch space between the two buildings" after the attacks.
Capitalizing on Southern Florida's nascent housing rebound, Perez has more than a dozen new apartment buildings in or about to start construction, including one of Miami's first new post-bubble condo projects, MyBrickell.
Most of the high-rise office buildings built in those cities before the mid-1990s do not meet current standards for new construction, and most of them have not been upgraded, said Hamburger.
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Other resource-efficient projects like New York's 4 Times Square office building, Atlanta's EarthCraft House and Village Habitat Design's cohousing conservation communities include such innovations as energy-efficient insulation, water and air filtration, or hydronic heating, aiming for healthy, nontoxic construction processes and buildings for humans and the environment.
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