The UK-wide figures, which were compiled by construction research body Glenigan, indicated a total of 29, 100 residential units were approved during the second quarter of 2011.
The new construction provides superior research and teaching facilities with daylit offices on single loaded corridors with views.
The building blocks of a modern economy--bridges, roads, power lines--are at about the level of South Korea a quarter century ago, according to the Construction and Economic Research Institute of South Korea.
"Only big companies with hefty asset levels are allowed to bid for PFIs and the need for consortiums demonstrates that even big companies sometimes have trouble meeting the PFI rules, " says James Hastings of the Construction Forecasting and Research group.
But scientists say it could take another 10 years of research and construction before the design is ready to be used in a nuclear power plant in the United States.
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It was an approach that said we need to go through the budget line-by-line looking for waste, without shortchanging education and basic scientific research and road construction, because those things are essential to our future.
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Le Labo founder Fabrice Penot and his partner visited the hotel to begin research and development when construction was still under way.
He recently called for "more research on how to strengthen the construction, operation and management of the Internet and promote mainstream online themes".
Although a similarly "primitive" construction, the Tangaroa benefited from more recent research on ancient sailing techniques and had a broader sail, adjustable centerboards and a hardwood cabin.
"The idea of working from 3-D information to 3-D construction is one of the key areas of research, working from body scan data and then linking that up to a knitting machine, " says Black.
By learning about the benefits from solar power systems from a trusted peer who faces many of the same local challenges (utility, construction, permitting options, siting), research from Yale and New York University demonstrates that social solar has already been shown to boost adoption rates by close to a percentage point.
Meanwhile, research by KPMG on zombie companies suggested the construction and real estate sector was experiencing the worst effects of the downturn.
In the U.S., some universities and corporate laboratories are conducting research on "bioprinting, " or artificial construction of body parts using living human tissue.
The proportion of LNG in the hands of such middlemen will rise from 12% to 25% when all the plants now under construction start running, says Michael Stoppard of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, a consultancy.
It already has approved four new reactors in a matter of months, on top of the 28 that were already under construction, notes Jonathan Hinze, an analyst at uranium-research firm Ux Consulting.
Located within the Bernese Alps, Piz Gloria was still under construction when it took on its starring role as the allergy research institute used by Blofeld to brainwash a group of beautiful women from around the world.
"With anyone else, you'd be worried, " says analyst James Sullivan of the Green Street Advisors research firm, who generally is skeptical about REITs doing construction.
However, for now almost all of the company's revenues come from the development and construction of its so-called PowerBuoy systems for demonstrations and customer-sponsored research and development.
Another vessel of this type is currently under construction at the Galati Shipyard, as is a smaller, 28 m long Fishery Research Vessel (a Damen FRV 2810), also commissioned by the Angolan Ministry.
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But another 5 billion gallons is set to come online by the end of the decade, judging by the planned construction of plants, according to Aaron Brady, a biofuels expert at Cambridge Energy Research Associates.
When a local government decides to pursue environmentally aware construction policies for its own buildings, the private sector follows suit, according to new research by Timothy Simcoe and Michael W. Toffel.
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"Hopewell misjudged the speed of major civil engineering construction in China, the complexities of land acquisition and budgeting, " says Michael Green of Nomura Research Institute.
Assuming that wind power gets most of the money (turbines accounted for 95% of new renewable capacity from 2002 to 2007) that's enough to underwrite the construction of 30, 000 MW of wind power, according to Hugh Wynne, an analyst at Bernstein Research.
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