George Osborne put the Crick Institute, along with other major public building projects, on hold when he came into the Treasury, but ultimately decided to go ahead with it.

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Younger engineers may be technologically savvy, but they tend to lack experience designing and building major projects.

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In return, Beijing is getting engineering contracts to build port and road infrastructure, winning business for Chinese state-owned enterprises, and showing off what China is good at: building major infrastructure projects in record time.

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Then, there's Scottish mismanagement of major infrastructure projects, from parliament building to trams.

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There the government is aiding a private corporation to seize the homes of Susette Kelo and others to build a hotel, high-priced condos, an office building and other projects to complement a major pharmaceutical company.

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The group and others have also noted that builders have benefited from an increase in projects related to building power plants and to getting natural gas out of major shale formations in the Appalachian mountains.

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