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.

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Many jurisdictions have mandated minimum green standards and incorporating those standards should not cost a building owner anything if their design and construction teams understand what is required.

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Such investment would range from Hitachi's own "significant investment in training engineers, construction teams and operating staff" to investment by companies eager to operate the reactors the company is planning to build - reactors which Mr Ishizuka expects will soon be granted safety approval.

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Hungering for the kind of revenue needed to field top teams, a wave of stadium construction is sweeping through sports.

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But as the economics of the NFL changed, Davis didn't adapt--and he failed to cash in on the construction boom he created: The Raiders are one of only six teams that haven't built a new stadium since 1982 (the Giants and the Jets have a new one under way).

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Teams may have benefited from help with the costs of stadium construction.

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An undrafted free agent out of Akron whom the Giants literally pulled off of a construction job in 2005, Blackburn had been with the team through last season, when he served as special-teams captain.

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