Huddersfield builder Trish Nutall, who has run Jo Simon construction for six years, fears the increase in tax will be no help to preserving important buildings.
Geanina and Madelin Nistor had spent years at school in Saragossa, because their father had run his own construction business there, and they wanted to go back.
So he ended up working illegally on a construction site run by a Turkish company and living in an on-site barracks.
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Its shares soared after the French company, whose interests run to media and construction, said profits next year would be far better than expected.
Stephen Roach, also of Morgan Stanley and a well-known contrarian, points out that less than a third of the run-up in construction spending over the past decade has been reversed.
The current flap over housing construction's run rate of 500, 000 plus is misplaced.
The company is on a hiring spree, due mostly to run- away demand for construction equipment in emerging markets.
At its most prosperous, during the construction boom in the run-up to the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, San'ya was home to 15, 000 day labourers.
Yet everyone agrees that Tehran needs to be run differently, and that earthquake-proof construction should be a priority.
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Nearly all tractor-trailers, delivery vehicles, buses, trains, ships, boats and barges, farm, construction and military vehicles and equipment run on diesel fuel.
Across this country in offices and construction sites and classrooms competitive juices run amuck as the Fantasy Draft for the 2012 season takes place.
Besides costing you for construction and equipment, the business may run an operating loss in its early days.
In a dusty bit of Maharashtra state sits one of the first Chinese factories in India, run by Sany, which makes diggers and other construction machines.
Mills, once known as one of the best mall developers in the country, has run into problems with its giant Xanadu project under construction in the New Jersey Meadowlands.
Mall REITs' stats have suffered from the blowup of one prominent member, Mills Corp. (nyse: MLS - news - people ) Mills, once known as one of the best mall developers in the country, has run into problems with its giant Xanadu project under construction in the New Jersey Meadowlands.
Moreover, President Obama has already approved part of KXL and that part which will run from Cushing, Oklahoma to Houston, is already under construction.
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Travellers can choose a one- or two-week trip, run in partnership with Let Haiti Live, where they help on construction projects and participate in summer youth camps.
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.
Turned out the place was still under construction, the pool was tiny and the staff were still learning how to run things.
The state-run Chinese news agency Xinhua quoted sources in China's embassy confirming the men were construction workers from China's southern province of Fujian who were in Iraq to help rebuild an Iraqi plant.
But for the three-quarters of Kabul too poor to afford to run either kind, the coming five-month power cut means less business, less construction, and a gloomier and hotter (or colder) time of it.
When planning new power lines, utilities routinely run into "not in my backyard" complaints for consumers, which can tie up the construction of new power lines for years.
This is not the way to run it, to have 4, 000 of our people that run the system not at their desks, not doing their work, and to have these construction projects suspended.
Belo Monte is run by Norte Energia, a consortium of government energy companies, along with smaller stakes from construction firms and mining giant Vale (VALE), which owns roughly 9% of the 11, 200 megawatt dam.
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But Oshkosh made the same kind of mistake that many other well-run companies made at the height of the sub-prime housing boom, buying deep into the construction equipment sector at the top of the market and then suffering a staggering collapse in demand that impaired its capacity to meet debt obligations.
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While its competitors are construction and finance guys who understand how to build retail space, Value Retail is a company run substantially by women who are creating an environment that appeals to women shoppers.
"The dam is being built in the middle of the river so you can't carry out construction work while the river flowed, " Mihret Debebe, chief executive officer of the state-run Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation, told the Reuters news agency.
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