Mr. Guo added that Beijing plans to start construction of 160, 000 public-housing units this year.
Mr. Capilouto wants to start construction of the first 600-bed undergraduate honors dorm by April 1, 2012.
Meantime, Gandur and Genel will likely start construction of a refinery near Taq Taq that would take 20, 000 barrels a day and provide a vital supply of indigenous gasoline to the Kurds.
It could be the start of a much bigger round of nuclear construction in the U.S.--if the controlling owner of the site, Southern Co.
Decades later, East German authorities tore down large chunks of the building in the 1980s but were unable to start new construction due to a lack of funds.
The Scottish government has expressed disappointment at the uncertainty over a start date for the construction of a subsea power cable.
The country also decided to reevaluate the safety systems of rail projects that have been approved but yet to start construction, and to suspend the examination or approval of newly proposed projects.
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Capitalizing on Southern Florida's nascent housing rebound, Perez has more than a dozen new apartment buildings in or about to start construction, including one of Miami's first new post-bubble condo projects, MyBrickell.
"Sluggish sales and tight credit controls have forced small enterprises to reduce new construction since the start of the second half of 2012, " Tan Huajie, Vanke's board secretary, said at a news conference Wednesday, adding that he expects there may be insufficient new housing supply in the coming year.
The proportion of LNG in the hands of such middlemen will rise from 12% to 25% when all the plants now under construction start running, says Michael Stoppard of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, a consultancy.
The mining billionaire told Australian media that construction would start at the end of next year.
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"We anticipate that construction should start by the end of this month, " said Jon Hanson, a real estate executive who is Christie's adviser on the sports and entertainment industries.
Some projects approved by the NDRC, construction of which was scheduled to start in the second half of this year, have been brought forward to the first half of this year, he said.
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Instead, the report itself admits that by the time a detailed design has been sketched out and the bidding process finished, actual construction of the store may not start until at least 2035.
Construction leaders said it was "the start of a new era" for the industry.
Pipelines remain costly to build, and a buyer has to be found and a price (generally linked to that of oil) agreed on before construction can start.
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John Spencer, principal and chief executive of Inverness College UHI, said construction work will start early next year.
The Galore project has years of environmental assessment reviews before on site construction can start in 2014 at the earliest.
The conglomerate plans to start construction in 2014 and open in 2016, creating tens of thousands of jobs while revamping a project many thought would remain undeveloped for years.
Construction of the Defra-funded basin is expected to start in late summer.
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If it sticks with the timeline, then it could complete the project ahead many of those that received permits last year but have yet to start construction.
Construction work is expected to start during the summer with a number of public consultations planned as the work progresses.
Construction on the Y-shaped extension could start in the middle of the next decade, with the line open by 2032-33.
She said that planning applications would be submitted in the next few weeks and construction work will start in the summer "with a large number of procurements for other schools in progress".
Construction of a mass rapid-transit railway is due to start in 2011, but with the number of passengers expected to reach just 400, 000 a day by 2020 it will hardly ease the congestion.
Since nuclear-power plants must recoup their high construction costs over decades, they start losing money if the spot price of power falls too low.
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Construction of the Brynmawr to Tredegar stretch of the road is due to start in late 2012.
The existing bridge in Woking town centre and a section of the canal towpath will be closed from 23 April to allow construction to start.
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