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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There were no new reports of planned coal-fired generators, and just one of 14 in the pipeline advanced from pre-construction to under-construction status, the agency found in its 2011 annual survey.
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East Londonderry MP Gregory Campbell said the employment of more than 400 prison staff - as well as jobs in the construction industry - were big factors in wanting to keep a jail at Magilligan.
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Vincent Napp Sr. and his brother, Louis, were partners in a heavy-construction firm in Newark in the early 1960s when they decided they wanted to do something else, like build a beach resort.
Since its inception in 2006, MeXvi has pioneered the assisted self-construction of homes in rural and semi-urban areas in over 13 states of Mexico, improving the quality of life of thousand of Mexicans.
In October 1991, she married for the eighth time - to construction worker Larry Fortensky - in an opulent ceremony in the grounds of the ranch owned by pop megastar Michael Jackson - a close confidante and kindred spirit.
Grupo MeXvi, a leading provider in Mexico of integral solutions for self-construction of low-income homes in rural and semi-urban settings, and FOMEPADE a microfinance institution pioneering micro-mortgagees, are doing their best to change that, starting with millions of Mexicans.
The people hurt most in the construction industry have been Hispanics, and this is -- a big chunk of this is in the Hispanic -- in effect, is construction and rehiring an awful lot of those people.
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Meanwhile, the U.S. economy has been reorganizing over the past 30 years away from middle-wage jobs in manufacturing and construction and toward low-paying jobs in the rapidly expanding service, retail and restaurant industries.
The safari park said it is dedicated to providing a retirement space for dysfunctional elephants, which led it to undertake its largest-ever construction project in the park's 43-year history.
In 1999 his first high profile work - the Jewish museum in Berlin - opened after 10 years construction, followed in 2002 by the Imperial War Museum in Manchester.
The proposal would immediately restrict road construction in one-fourth of the national forestland, and set in motion a procedure through which local forest officials would determine what activities are consistent with the values of an additional 11 million acres of forest.
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The city's Cathedral is 100 metres tall - construction began in the 15th Century and took 400 years to complete.
The contractor chosen to build the scheme - Laing Construction - was announced in January after public participation to choose the winning design.
Bill Hammack is preparing layoffs at his road-construction company in Georgia.
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.
Tungsten, which is used in metal-working, construction and in the manufacture of electrical equipment and light bulbs, was discovered at Hemerdon in 1867.
Walton got pulled over and taken in for booking after a trooper caught her going 70mph in a 55mph construction zone on I-20 in Weatherford, Tex.
He worked low-paying construction jobs and slept in his second-hand car.
It has been a long-time coming as course construction stopped in 2009 with six holes completed as the high-end real estate market in Dubai fell off a cliff when the economy soured.
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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).
Both Romeo and his brother-in-law worked in town's construction and footwear industries, Costamagna said.
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.
Wheel loaders outsell all other construction equipment in China by far--130, 000 last year, or 60% of all construction machines sold in 2007.
The risks to his recommendation and target price include weaker-than-expected new construction markets in the U.S. and China, higher-than-expected costs for raw materials and energy, and higher spending on new-product rollouts.
The firm uses a foundation- and endowment-like approach to portfolio construction, investing primarily in early-stage technology companies, with some allocation to life sciences as well as early and growth investments in India and China.
Oscar Castro, a professor of urban planning at the ITESO Jesuit University of Guadalajara, says Mexico's housing strategy encouraged "throw-away" homes because the government was more interested in touting mortgage approvals and driving economic growth via construction activity than in providing long-term housing solutions.
In one of the most-watched architecture developments in the US, California Gov. Jerry Brown fast-tracked construction approval for Apple's massive new disc-shaped Cupertino campus in California.
Located on the Cotai Strip, the Galaxy Macau will almost double in size after the second phase of construction is completed in mid-2015, with the addition of 450, 000 square meters of space.
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However, our perusal of activity in many markets points to mostly build-to-suits in construction activity.
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