The construction ministry wants to bring down the price of house construction by 30%.
House construction is counted in GDP as a percentage of the median selling price at the time of the start, exaggerating the subtraction when prices are falling along with volumes.
Building costs (like rents) are high in Manhattan, but Blair is trying to keep expenses in check by using in-house construction crews and paying subcontractors bonuses to deliver work at the lowest possible cost.
Among the other high-profile designers working in the city: London-based Zaha Hadid Architects designed a new opera house under construction, and Information Based Architecture of Amsterdam designed the TV and sightseeing tower that will contain retail shops and gardens with teahouses.
Opera singers are known for their perfectionism, and the couple admit they applied uncompromising standards to the construction of their house, which caused some delays in construction.
After going through necessary approvals, the couple tore down the existing house and started construction on the new one.
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He had never been to the historic house, whose construction started in 1699, and was not familiar with the lay-out of the grounds.
Part of it is original from the house's construction in 1928, but new paneling by the same firm has been seamlessly affixed to rooms in a new extension of the house.
Activity data in the UK construction industry fell quicker than expected last month, driven mostly by the weakness in house-building (PMI construction: 48.7 from 49.3 in November).
On good days, he could earn 100 rupees (two dollars) doing construction or house cleaning.
The further construction of that house of peace needs my hand.
This year, he sold his largest house, which is under construction on the waterfront, and signed on to develop a property for a major Hollywood executive.
After living through several boom and bust cycles, he said he "believes in the long term" and he began construction on Mercedes House before he had obtained financing.
Chalfin outlasted both Hoffman and Suarez on the project, to some degree pushing them out of the way so that he could both supervise construction of the house and gardens and take credit for the work.
Another Supreme Court judge Lord Brown pointed out that the council can "if it thinks it expedient, seek to enforce not merely against the continued use of this building as a dwelling house but additionally against its construction".
The Mumbai Mirror newspaper reported that Anil has begun construction of his new house in Bandra, a Mumbai suburb.
"The RBA is not interested in shifting to accommodative monetary policy to 'save' house prices or to restore dwelling construction, " she added.
Soundproof an apartment house that stands next to a construction site.
Plans to house up to 2, 000 construction workers for the building of a new nuclear power station on Anglesey will be presented to the island's council.
Mr Armstrong explained that in the example of a house, money invested in its construction led directly to further spending on furnishings, architectural and landscape design and other household products.
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Hobson is the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee's subcommittee on military construction.
That supply of credit lifted house prices and spurred a boom in residential construction, which filled the gap in demand left by sluggish business investment.
The construction industry is heavily reliant on house building and repairs, along with the government's capital investment programme, particularly in water infrastructure, roads, education and health.
Of the ninety Senators who voted last summer to deny funding for closing Gitmo, forty-seven later voted to allow the military construction funding to be used to house Gitmo detainees in the United States.
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The collateral damage from the housing market is already baked in the cake: Expect a continued slump in residential construction activity and employment, lower house prices that will force more subprime lenders to the wall and put strains on the most leveraged parts of the financial system and a slowdown in consumption expenditures.
He said that while he accepted the historic infringements, the construction companies had since "put their house in order".
And even if the worst is over for house builders, it may not be for the construction industry as a whole.
After construction of his modern four-bedroom house was completed two years ago, he had to decide what to do with the yard.
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Last August, President Obama used the occasion of a White House dinner breaking the Ramadan fast to endorse the construction of a controversial mosque close by the site of the former Twin Towers in Manhattan.
Unfortunately, the bubble burst soon after, and Kaufman was unable to obtain the construction financing necessary to develop the intended spec house.
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