Sentences with phrase «construction boom when»

The example that Robinson used to illustrate the second point had to do with real estate investor Sam Zell noticing where Starbucks locations were opening up, and using that data point as the spark that led Zell to see the bigger force of China's construction boom when it was still in its early stages.

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It was a time when construction was booming in China.

We haven't seen levels this high since 2004 when we were at the peak of the housing bubble, the construction sector was booming, and we had high employment.

In contrast, when construction of single - family homes peaks at the end of the decade or beginning of the 2020s, he wrote, it'll be «at a level comparable to what prevailed just prior to the housing boom.»

Among the large questions of design, construction and operation that remain to be solved before airliners travel faster than sound, one of the most difficult is the problem of sonic boom: the explosive sounds generated when an object moves through the air at supersonic speed.

This exhibition features the work of Harry Cowles Mann (1866 — 1926), Norfolk's most prolific photographer during an era when downtown construction and maritime traffic were booming.

In the region of 220,000 new homes were built between 2006 - 2008 alone, at a time when the peak and gradual collapse of the house - building boom led to the construction of homes which are likely to be extremely leaky, inaccurately insulated and non-compliant with minimum standards.

Jim Kunstler would say it is because of Peak Oil, that suburban homeowners won't be able to afford to heat or cool their houses or commute to work; We have said that it is because of global warming, that low density construction uses too many resources and creates too much CO2 when nobody can walk anywhere; Perhaps demographer David Foot, author of Boom, Bust and Echo, 10 years ago was right all along, that demographics are everything and just watch those baby boomers.

Most Chinese drywall was imported by the U.S. during the construction boom between 2004 and 2007 when it was in high demand.

«When I started my business 21 years ago, there was a housing boom in Williamsburg, Va., and the bulk of my business was landscapes for new construction,» says Peggy Krapf of Heart's Ease Landscape & Garden Design, www.HeartsEaseLandscape.com, and a certified designer through the Virginia Society of Landscape Designers, www.vsld.org.