They hope to reduce both the number of components needed in a construction job and their weight—by replacing solid supports with hollow tubes, for example.

他们希望减少建筑工作所需的部件数量和重量，例如，用空心管代替实心支架。

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The Elaboration and Construction phases have a number of similarities that lead to similar approaches to measurement.

精化和构建阶段有很多的相似性，这些相似性导致它们有相似度量方法。

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The number of residential construction jobs has fallen by more than a quarter million since mid-2006.

2006年中期以来，居民房屋建设方面的工作下降了25万多个。

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Yet traveling back to smog-bound Beijing, past industrial factories, high-rise apartment blocks under construction,shopping malls and the ever growing number of cars, the future once more looks uncertain.

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Major concerns over delays in the construction of facilities, including stadium updates and practice fields at a number of the eight venues spread across the country, seem to have been resolved at the last moment.

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The report seeks to address apparent concerns over worker safety in Qatar's construction industry and claims that discrepancies exist between the number of construction worker deaths reported by local embassies and the number reported by the government.

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The group had until recently managed to survive the downturn in construction industry and was behind a number of key construction projects.

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The company has delayed construction on a number of projects, however.

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