There is significant room for growth for economic development and construction demand in emerging markets given the low starting base in many of these places.
The top 20 economies on the list have implemented effective, yet streamlined procedures for regulatory processes such as starting a business and dealing with construction permits as well as strong legal protections of property rights.
The bigger test of Britain's taste for windowless pods will come with a new project startingconstruction this year at the Trocadero, a Victorian building in Piccadilly Circus that was most recently host to an amusement arcade.