To a certain extent, the construction boom of the last decade was on an untenable high.
StanChart point out that their prediction of a construction boom next year hinges on government policy.
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And the upturn in the Case Shiller Home-Price Index is being pushed along by a fresh construction boom.
"Developers realize the next South Florida condo construction boom is just beginning, " said Peter Zalewski, principal of Condo Vultures.
And despite the developing world's construction boom, America is the most profitable market.
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The structure of the eurozone, with one interest rate for all, enabled countries like Spain to embark on a construction boom.
But freestanding islands weren't common in residential design until the post-War construction boom, says Sandy Isenstadt, University of Delaware professor of architectural history.
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Hotels and restaurants are being erected in almost every part of the town and in nearby beach areas as the construction boom continues.
At its most prosperous, during the construction boom in the run-up to the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, San'ya was home to 15, 000 day labourers.
The main benefit to the poor of a construction boom, at least at first, is likely to be the jobs it will create.
High on the construction boom years ago, we built too much, and now must let the market settle as the excess supply thins out.
Qatar's success in being chosen by FIFA as 2022 World Cup hosts is likely to mean an anticipated construction boom in the Arab state.
Australia's government raised interest rates twice - to 5.25% - late last year to cool the construction boom in the housing market and consumer spending.
He sends Chinese architectural and construction teams abroad to study stadiums in Europe, South America and, with the World Cup construction boom, in South Africa.
But concerns that China's economy was overheating led to action by the country's government last year, to cool down a construction boom by squeezing credit.
But at least they have already avoided the worst mistake made by Thailand: denying until it was too late that the construction boom posed any dangers.
Few engineers remain from the last construction boom, and those who are still working may not be as familiar with cutting-edge engineering technologies and productivity tools.
In contrast, vacancies rose in markets with slower job growth, like Akron, Providence and Milwaukee, and in the one market with a construction boom, El Paso.
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Yet behind the construction boom Georgia's economic fundamentals remain difficult.
The construction boom comes as prices have risen 70% in the past five years, prompting the government to impose taxes on sales to foreigners or on locals buying multiple units.
The steel-and-concrete skeleton of the Echelon project has stood on the north Strip since 2008, a symbol of the initial promise and disastrous end of the Las Vegas construction boom.
Those loans are the poisonous legacy of a housing and construction boom that saw 5 million new homes built between 1997 and 2007, twice the increase in new Spanish households.
Despite a construction boom in office buildings in the country's two business centers, Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, the scarcity of office space has prices rivaling those in Singapore.
But zinc demand has exploded with the building and construction boom here and overseas, not to mention the fact that a typical automobile uses nearly 40 pounds of zinc in it.
The current construction boom and work on the city's sewers and other parts of its infrastructure have evicted many of the rodents from their traditional abodes, pushing them on to the streets.
Micheal Martin's Fianna Fail and John Gormley's Greens - the outgoing coalition - are performing appallingly - blamed for the over-heated and under-regulated construction boom that brought such havoc on Ireland's economy and banking system.
Between them those three miners account for about 70% of the iron ore imported by China, which has been both a prolific producer and consumer of steel during its hectic construction boom of the past 20 years.
Perhaps the most rapid change has taken place in North Carolina, where a technology and construction boom has sucked in hundreds of thousands of migrant workers, swelling the Hispanic population by more than 1, 000% since 1990.
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Both disasters prompted policy makers to ease monetary and fiscal conditions that fueled an expansion in the aggregate demand, especially a construction boom that boosted equity prices, especially shares of companies involved directly or indirectly in reconstruction.
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