Bradford Construction provides project and budget management for large public construction projects.

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But Japan struggles with environmental issues like climate change brought about in part by decades of rampant construction driven by massive public works projects.

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The biggest monthly increases came in private single-family and multi-family housing categories, and in public office, health care and power construction projects.

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But, as attention has focused on accounting standards, concerns have been raised in particular about how support services firms treat the large costs run up bidding for public private partnership contracts, such as hospital construction projects.

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Another study carried out in India showed that female politicians promoted public-works projects that mattered particularly to women, such as well-construction.

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Land acquisition, often a rub in India, was sped under a national act for public projects and in this case even green lobbies gave their blessing for construction.

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Second, it puts more people back to work, including up to 280, 000 teachers laid off by state-budget cuts, first responders and veterans coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan, and construction workers repairing crumbling bridges, roads and more than 35, 000 public schools, with projects chosen by need and impact, not earmarks and politics.

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Referendums have prompted public hearings on controversial decisions, a procedure that the construction ministry this week made mandatory for land-reclamation projects, which may have an effect on the wider environment.

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