Downtown Charlotte is booming with the new construction of office buildings.
Since then Hines has become one of the largest developers in Manhattan, overseeing construction of office towers for Bear Stearns, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and Goldman Sachs.
Home construction might be flagging, but industrial construction--office buildings, schools, airports, bridges--is poised for growth.
Next year and in 2014, look for retail then office construction at the top of the leaderboard.
Additional carbon footprint savings will come from reduced office energy consumption, roadway repairs, urban heating, office construction, business travel and paper usage (as electronic documents replace paper).
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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.
Nor will this former contractor restrict himself to supervising the construction process from his office.
Few businesspeople see much growth in the near future in office or residential construction.
Federal, state, and local governments buy everything, from office supplies to construction services, from catering to janitorial services.
The flames, spectacularly reflected in the glass facade of an office building under construction across the street, died down only after crews were able to shut off the gas around 8 p.m.
In the construction industry, developers race to build office buildings without having the slightest idea who the first tenant would be.
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The city had sought bids for the project, initially conceived in 2007 as another in a line of Bloomberg-backed housing developments on which construction would begin before the mayor left office.
An ideal solution for many small business environments, it's ideally suited for life outside the traditional office -- such as the portables found on many construction sites or for field sales reps that commute from location to location, visiting the home office only occasionally.
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Subject to Government Office North West formal approval, construction work is set to start in the autumn.
The biggest monthly increases came in private single-family and multi-family housing categories, and in public office, health care and power construction projects.
Construction on 260, 000 square meters of office, commercial, residential and hotel space is to start in 2001 and be completed in two phases by 2007.
As with office and retail, projects under construction are at a record 10-year low due to an increase in corporate spending would accelerate the strengthening of industrial market fundamentals.
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To induce construction, the authorities had to double the amount of office space allowed.
According to its calculations, the construction industry contributed 8.5% to GDP in 2008 (the Office of National Statistics weighting is a more modest 6.1% of GDP).
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On Sunday, a spokesman for Israeli Housing Minister Zeev Boim told CNN that his office will take steps this week that could lead to the construction of 121 houses in Har Homa and 763 houses in Pisgat Zeev.
Construction output rose by 0.9% in the fourth quarter, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.
Those local governments in turn used the loans to provide economic stimulus through highway construction and other infrastructure improvements, as well as an overbuilding of homes and office buildings.
"We have been monitoring the World Trade Center site over time and monitoring the construction, " said Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner's office.
Construction is due to start in 2007, just as Mr Roh's term of office ends, with government departments due to move in from 2012.
The MAGNET center will not require new construction but will occupy eighth-floor space in Brooklyn's MetroTech Center, a 1990s office park.
With its gleaming white marble floor, minimalist decor and crew of white-gloved waiters bearing trays of lemon tea, the sales office at Lodha Fiorenza looks more like a plush salon than something makeshift on a construction site where a tall crane stands next to half-finished towers.
This year, as construction gets fully under way, he will continue to sell his vision for the neighborhood to prospective office tenants.
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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But Mr Netanyahu's office has denied the hiatus amounted to an official freeze and continued to insist on "natural growth" construction in settlements.
"Much of the area in the last decade has been paved over, with new construction, making a search today very difficult, " said Detective Bob Dean of the Alachua County Sheriff's Office.
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