Sakai Toyama is one of a band of residents who have maintained a beachside vigil for more than eight years, just to make sure construction on the base doesn't start while no one is looking.
Some very wealthy Russian buyers in the New York market have started partnering with developers before construction to make sure units in prime locations can be combined to create large, estate-size apartments, says Edward Mermelstein, a lawyer who works primarily with buyers from Russia and Eastern Europe.
To make sure there are no surprises post-construction, models of tall buildings and those surrounding it are sometimes tested inside mathematically accurate wind tunnels, meant to replicate conditions in the real world.
All these things -- health care security, American manufacturing, rebuilding America and putting construction workers back to work, making sure our kids are getting a great education and can afford college -- all these things that make up a middle-class life, they all tie together.
Although the jury is still out and no one knows for sure, the competition is now being played out in construction sites all over the country.
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The idea of rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure and creating lots of jobs for construction workers sidelined by the housing market slump sure seemed like a good one.
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Although the area around the stadium will not be open to the public until Spring 2014 because of construction work, the LLDC is keen to make sure sport gets a high-profile place in the stadium.
Subway construction is disrupting direct weekend service to Flushing, so be sure to check alternate travel options with the Metropolitan Transit Authority.
Bomb-sniffing dogs were working the area of the bombings and nearby streets, checking every single item on curbs or near the street -- including "every construction cone, every Port-a-Jon" -- to make sure there were no explosive devices left, CNN affiliate WHDH in Boston reported.
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Sure, NY has great engineering schools at Columbia and NYU. But with the now under construction Tech Campus at Roosevelt Island, the city has doubled down on engineering education.
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