The real estate market took a huge blow three years ago and many construction projects just stalled out, leaving people who had bought homes off-plan and pre-construction with nothing.
But ways of streamlining the pre-construction phase and improving procurement techniques on major transport infrastructure projects are being looked at.
They did not say whether or not there was an issue with the pre-construction obligations not being met by Belo Monte owners.
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"In this context much activity including further detailed pre-construction engineering work will continue ahead of the later construction phase, " it said in a statement.
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There were no new reports of planned coal-fired generators, and just one of 14 in the pipeline advanced from pre-construction to under-construction status, the agency found in its 2011 annual survey.
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The minute control over materials made possible by 3-D printing could definitely make a difference in pre-fabricating materials for construction.
The build-it-yourself (and eerily human-proportioned) construction can react to pre-programmed actions, text-to-speech conversion or live control, ranging from basics like the eyes and jaw to the eyelids, eyebrows, lips and neck of an Advanced Fritz.
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Two new Lebanese billionaires, cousins and co-owners of a construction firm, were born in pre-1948 Palestine and still support Palestinian causes.
One of his jobs is to pump up players with pre-game speeches that involve everything from construction hardhats to a nutcracker (for the despised Buckeyes).
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The Item Club highlights the importance of the large and diverse business services sector in being the main engine of growth, while manufacturing has stagnated and construction remains about 10% below its pre-downturn output.
Going back to elementary school, Valentine's Day has been about the cards: First carefully crafted with safety scissors, construction paper and glue, and later bought pre-made from a store.
While housing construction and other building will take time to return to pre-financial-crash levels, the repair and restoration side of this industry is doing well, particularly since those who have had their buildings foreclosed upon are stripping gutters and other exposed metal for recycling.
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Abbas says he won't return to negotiations without an Israeli construction freeze, arguing that Israel's building on war-won land pre-empts the outcome of talks on a border between Israel and a future state of Palestine.
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