New building projects in two areas of London and the creation of a new city in central Florida -- Destiny -- were among 16 projects announced at the summit as climate-positive initiatives and supported by the Clinton Climate Initiative.
But perhaps the most important accomplishment of the mission, at least when it comes to long-term Mars exploration, is that NASA's new mantra of building projects "faster, better and cheaper" has proven to be feasible.
The rental income pays for building maintenance and new projects.
However the government could tip the balance in favour of privatisation by abolishing the rule which says that a quarter of the proceeds of a sale must go to pay off debt rather than be used for building projects such as new schools.
In 2011, about 40% of its revenue came from the sale of capital products such as crane systems or unmanned submarines for a range of projects, including building new drilling rigs or subsea construction.
For much of the 1980s and early 1990s, state legislatures cut appropriations to their public universities because they were in deficit and wanted to spend money on other projects such as building new prisons.
The capital budget will be used for building projects such as repairing roads and new school buildings.
Although the outside world may see headlines about fancy projects such as the building of new institutions, the change to science required in Arab countries is not about bricks-and-mortar improvement but about building intellectual capacity.
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While Hal said that Hotel was also successful, he said his father had tired of building hotels and wasn't interested in new projects.
Glenigan, an outfit that tracks construction projects, predicts a gradual recovery of new private residential building, but reckons it will be slowed by scarce mortgage finance.
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Other resource-efficient projects like New York's 4 Times Square office building, Atlanta's EarthCraft House and Village Habitat Design's cohousing conservation communities include such innovations as energy-efficient insulation, water and air filtration, or hydronic heating, aiming for healthy, nontoxic construction processes and buildings for humans and the environment.
Michael Levack, chief executive of the Scottish Building Federation, told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that the Scottish Government could help the industry by speeding up its big building projects - including a promise of 35, 000 new homes to be allocated as social housing for rent.
The money also is going to economic-development projects, from expanding the Mayo Clinic to building a new stadium for the Minnesota Vikings in Minneapolis.
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The government has already tweaked the planning system to allow Whitehall to overrule local objections to new power stations, and a new Infrastructure Planning Commission is supposed to take a more dirigiste approach to big building projects.
However, big projects such as the Council House refurbishment and the building of the new velodrome are still going ahead.
It hasn't been just new projects that are making headlines: In November, even the Empire State Building got a makeover, when the owners installed a new LED light system whose millions of colors can ripple, cross-fade, strobe and burst in time to the tunes of Alicia Keys or a special New Year's show.
The vast majority of commodity buying is by Asian governments as they are building long-term infrastructure projects like super highways, power plants, airports and new electrical grids.
In addition to restricting building heights and mixed-use development, these zoning codes almost invariably force developers to provide parking for new construction projects, whether the market demands it or not.
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