And that's if you can get construction approval past the Nimbys, not to mention the Bananas (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything).
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.
Subject to Government Office North West formal approval, construction work is set to start in the autumn.
Industry would also welcome any law that would make it easier to win approval for construction of marine terminals for the import of liquefied natural gas.
The project had been approved by a planning commission and was under construction when Corlew reversed that approval because of what he said was the insufficient notice.
New licensing rules will approve reactor designs for construction anywhere, rather than requiring approval for each individual plant.
There are just two new American reactors under construction, neither with full regulatory approval (a third, approved under an earlier system and then put on ice, is also under way).
Ideally, this will speed up the regulatory approval process as well as make construction cheaper and easier.
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First Solar is now looking to work with someone else on the 30-megawatt project, which still requires a final approval from the Chinese government before construction could begin.
The country also decided to reevaluate the safety systems of rail projects that have been approved but yet to start construction, and to suspend the examination or approval of newly proposed projects.
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China, with 27 reactors under construction, has already announced a temporary halt to approval for new nuclear plants.
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European competition commissioner Mario Monti has called on Germany to hold off its rescue plan for construction company Philipp Holzmann until it gets European Union approval.
From the date of approval, the Port Authority will have ten days to resume construction at "full pace" on the subterranean museum complex.
Final approval from the government will be sought in summer 2011, when construction work is expected to begin.
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Approval of a license could take three to four years, and construction of a new reactor could occupy an equal amount of time.
When Environment Minister Edwin Poots announced planning approval for the incinerator last month, he said it would create up to 400 construction jobs and 30 permanent positions.
Bechtel also nudged Al Abadi Group, a construction firm from Basra, to supply manpower, trucks and forklifts to start port repairs before getting proper approval.
Obama has unsuccessfully sought congressional approval throughout his presidency for a more aggressive national investment in road, rail, bridge and energy infrastructure construction to create jobs and spur economic growth.
She has secured approval for two new berths at Port Hedland, finished the deepwater dredging for them, and has started construction on her own two-hundred-and-fourteen-mile railway and high-tech remote operations center near Perth Airport.
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