Sentences with phrase «building boom»

His note also made me wonder if anyone is thinking in a holistic way about fostering practices that can turn the urban building boom in developing countries into an opportunity.

Within five years, I'd built a booming business and published my own book, all because I used the resources of the public library to learn something new.

Having watched that fad come and go, construction industry veterans should be forgiven for believing that this green building boom will do the same.

The state leads the nation in wind power and is building a booming industry off of the renewable energy technology.

If more buyers go with the latter choice, the downtown building boom may have only just begun.

That's despite the largest building boom that the privately - owned student housing business has ever seen.

Our city is experiencing a massive building boom that is focused mainly on urban renewal.

Chris Giunchigliani, a current Clark County commissioner who once served on the Water Authority board, sees the agency — which she called «the final arbiter» of what can and should be built — as centrally responsible for why Las Vegas» building boom continued through the drought years.

History has seen building booms that glut the market again and again, always leading to long periods of hard times.

With the support of Congress, the renewable energy industry has enjoyed a tax credit - buoyed building boom under President Barack Obama, who has aggressively pushed to slash greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of coal and other fossil fuels.

The seniors housing building boom started in 2011 and accelerated through 2015.

The confluence of a stagnant housing market and consumer desire to save money is creating a green home building boom that could be worth up to $ 114 billion by 2016, according to a new report from McGraw Hill Construction.

Experts Paul Abramson and Joe Agron share with Education World readers their observations and predictions about the current building boom in America's schools.

All told, China is spending $ 40 billion on construction in its capital, according to official estimates, both for the upcoming Olympics in August and as part of an ongoing building boom in both commercial edifices and residences for its nearly 18 million inhabitants.

Victoria's school building boom has delivered more than 1,200 school upgrades and 56 new school projects across the state, supporting almost 5,000 construction jobs for Victorians.

By 1954, the banks had convinced the government to change their charters so they could join the post-War building boom.

And as if on cue, Istanbul was deluged on the biennial's opening night by an apocalyptic storm, one that killed 32 people in a suburb built on sand during the last speculative building boom.

Banks are cautious about over-exposure in the wake of a prolonged apartment building boom.

Chicago was gearing up for its biggest residential building boom in 50 years, and Conlon, who joined Koenig & Strey in 1993, quickly established himself as an industry whiz kid.

While prices may cool, the scarcity of land on which to build detached houses will continue to fuel the condo building boom, said Peter Norman, chief economist at real estate consulting firm Altus Group.

Home, garden, antique, and design items brought from all over Mexico (and beyond) by owner Anne Harte have helped fuel the high - end building boom in San... Read More

Noted mountain developers have been pumping out high end properties, and with overwhelming interest, Kicking Horse Mountain Resort, is in the middle of one of its biggest building booms ever in the history of the resort.

How This Once Homeless Refugee Built a Booming $ 12 Million Logistics Business — and Bought His Mom a House

The fact is, says Vitaliy Katsenelson, director of research at Investment Management Associates in Denver, Colo., and a prominent China skeptic, China's frantic building boom over the past five years not only boosted GDP on paper and put millions to work but also produced a property bubble where neither investors nor developers are likely to ever recover their costs.

His new Bergdorf Goodman store was in excellent proximity to new, highly exclusive Park Avenue, which was undergoing a high - rise building boom just as he signed the lease on his new site.

His 2009 stimulus gusher fuelled a national building boom, especially in the last two summer construction seasons, but the deadline for finishing projects under the $ 4 - billion infrastructure fund is the end of this month.

In New York City the luxury building boom has screeched to a slowdown, with developers slashing the size of units in order to make them more affordable.

New technology building booms and subsequent collapses are, historically normal and common following the introduction of new and transformative technologies, and we have seen them in the US and British automobile industries, the late 20th century communications «tech wreck», the rise and contraction cell phone manufacturers, and the explosion of entry into US telecommunications post «deregulation» in the US, just to cite a few.

The ballpark building boom of the past decade has brought fans closer to the action.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has undertaken a statewide building boom using public construction contracts to spur private - sector job growth that since 2011 has committed billions of dollars in construction funds and tax breaks to companies.

True, there will be a temporary building boom and an addition of low - paying service jobs, but in the long - term, casinos tend to destroy small businesses and increase the social costs to the community.

How about the late (as in fired) Sandy Mathes, the man who built those booming industrial parks in Coxsackie before the Great Recession?

The northern migration of the Facebook generation has spurred a multifamily building boom in Westchester County

But the suburban building boom looked nothing like the Levittown planned communities sweeping across America, where the appetite for new homes seemed just as insatiable and the explosion of affordable automobiles was changing the way people lived.

With its stunning view of dusty galaxies, planet - forming disks, and the early universe, ALMA has touched off a submillimeter building boom.

Despite the renewables building boom, such geothermal, wind and solar projects still do not crowd out fossil fuel — fired generation in the energy mix of, for example, the utility Pacific Gas & Electric.

Martyn Frear, Business Development Manager at CP Electronics looks at key drivers behind the modular building boom and what this means for the lighting control industry.

Dominic Hall is born in a hovel on the banks of the Tyne, but thanks to a postwar building boom, his family moves to a council estate, a new community that throws together people who, in previous times, might not have known one another at all.

We LOVE hearing stories about how self - publishing empowers female writers to build booming independent publishing businesses, making enough money through writing to quit their day jobs, and even hire their partners, family members, or friends to support them.

Vancouver is experiencing a major building boom, with many large projects having begun in 2010.

Yet some Canadians see the frenzied building boom that repopulated this part of downtown Toronto and worry that it may end badly.

Amid the post-independence building boom there remains the traditional and often brightly - coloured wood - slat architecture of the Krio (a style particularly evident on Pademba Road).

It is rare surviving example central Sydney's inter-war building boom in theatre buildings.