Sentences with phrase «government started construction»

Cancún, with a current population 725,000, was a sparsely populated fishing outpost prior to 1970, when the Mexican government started construction to turn this part of the Yucatan Peninsula into a resort and tourism locale.

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To start, governments can streamline the approval process for the construction of new homes.

With thousands of destroyed homes and buildings from the October wildfires, government leaders in the North Bay must stop saying no to construction and start saying yes, writes Brad Bollinger, publisher of North Bay Business Journal.

The latest Construction Trade Survey published today, shows that the cuts to public spending, announced by the government last autumn, have finally started to impact on construction activity, confirming the fears the industry has warned about foConstruction Trade Survey published today, shows that the cuts to public spending, announced by the government last autumn, have finally started to impact on construction activity, confirming the fears the industry has warned about foconstruction activity, confirming the fears the industry has warned about for some time.

The program parameters were pretty broad to start with, authorizing funding of capital construction, rehab or improvement of facilities owned by the state, county governments and municipalities; water and sewer districts; the Metropolitan Transportation Authority; and both SUNY and CUNY.

Addressing an audience of more than 80 Parliamentarians and 150 construction industry leaders, civil servants and journalists at the House of Commons, Bill Bolsover, the Chairman of the Construction Products Association, identified the construction industry as a key driver of economic growth and suggested ways in which government should kick start tconstruction industry leaders, civil servants and journalists at the House of Commons, Bill Bolsover, the Chairman of the Construction Products Association, identified the construction industry as a key driver of economic growth and suggested ways in which government should kick start tConstruction Products Association, identified the construction industry as a key driver of economic growth and suggested ways in which government should kick start tconstruction industry as a key driver of economic growth and suggested ways in which government should kick start the recovery.

Public Sector Cuts Finally Start to Bite The latest Construction Trade Survey published today, shows that the cuts to public spending, announced by the government last autumn, have finally started to impact on construction activity, confirming the fears the industry has warned about foConstruction Trade Survey published today, shows that the cuts to public spending, announced by the government last autumn, have finally started to impact on construction activity, confirming the fears the industry has warned about foconstruction activity, confirming the fears the industry has warned about for some time.

Though the mall has attained 40 percent completion, Obi said it was in line with his government's determinations and custom of flagging off a project even when the construction had long started.

`' Government has begun the construction of sea defence at Akplor - Atokor with works on Dzita and Horve expected to start later this year.»

«He however failed to give details of the cost of the interchange and when construction is expected to start except for the fact that the construction was part of the $ 15 billion grant funding by the Chinese government,» the report adds.

The proposed construction of the Bolgatanga Regional Airport which started in 1995 in Anateem, a suburb of Bolgatanga has been abandoned after several attempts by previous governments to rehabilitate it.

On January 8, jury selection is scheduled to start in the trial of Cuomo's former close confidant and aide Joe Percoco, along with three construction and energy executives who had business before the state and are accused of arranging bribes for Percoco and his wife in exchange for Percoco's government influence.

The government would then initiate negotiations for support from other interested countries, with the goal of starting construction by 2020 and beginning experiments around 2030.

The situation is no better in Europe, according to Steven Thomas, a professor of energy studies at the University of Greenwich in London: Finland can not complete its new reactor; the U.K. has yet to get started on any projects; and a new nuclear reactor in France, after 18 months of construction, is 20 percent overbudget and requires complete subsidy by the French government.

Last year a court in Pau, in the foothills of the Pyrenees, blocked government plans to start construction of an 8 - kilometre tunnel at one end of the Aspe Valley.

Cliff started making trouble in grade school in the Boston area, made it constructive trouble at Brown and the University of Chicago, and brought the construction to a head in a string of influential monographs that demonstrated how tractable and smart both governments and foundations can be.

For many investors, an allocation to government bonds is the starting point for portfolio construction.

The Indonesian government has laid out an ambitious infrastructure programme which includes the construction of 14 new airports starting next year.

In other disasters the most powerful narrative can be one of blame - of the people who started a fire (leading at times to the demonization of a supposed arsonist), the government who did not build the flood defenses, the construction companies who broke building codes, or the emergency services who failed to do their job.

Shortly after it being reported that construction would start in early 2010 the South Australian Government announced that it has refused to vary major development approval of the wind farm (Trust Power wanted to build taller towers, 110m high).

An example is the comercial scale cellulosic ethanol plants recieving large U. S. Government grants to start construction.

SkyPower FAS Energy is committed to work closely with both governments for the planning, financing, and construction of 3,000 MW of utility - scale solar PV energy projects for the Nigerian power grid, which are expected to reach commercial operation in phases starting in 2015.

We're hearing that the temporary foreign worker program is taking jobs away from British Columbians in the construction industry, but the full impact on people is unknown... The Christy Clark government needs to start tracking temporary workers so we can see how many jobs and apprenticeship opportunities for young British Columbians are being lost.

The automobile had been invented and entered mass production in the early 1900s, but just as the internal combustion engine started to prevail over electric cars at that time and mass production took hold with Ford's Model T bringing some cars and trucks into upper middle class households and into use by businesses and farms, the Great Depression and World War II dramatically reduced private personal consumption, so for the two decades from about 1929 until the several years after World War II that it took to convert factories from war production to civilian peacetime production, the automobile industry's private sector sales were greatly suppressed, domestic civilian road and bridge construction came to a near halt during World War II as government funds were diverted to the war effort, and domestic oil consumption was likewise suppressed.

Starting last October, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA)-- the federal government's landlord — began requiring BIMs for major proposals from architecture, engineering and construction firms.

Overcoming government objections and starting construction often takes two years.

Over a 10 - year period, it says the measure would result in 6,400 additional MLS sales; 2,600 additional housing starts; 20,640 person years of employment in the sales and construction industries; a $ 1.27 billion increase in gross domestic product; and a $ 357 million increase in government revenues through MLS

While the initial yields for new construction tend to be lower, these firms have access to cheaper capital than they did when they started out a few years ago; some have raised equity or obtained financing from government - sponsored enterprises.

By the end of June, more than $ 467 million of construction had started on Orlando - area office, retail, hotel, warehouse, manufacturing, educational, health care, religious, government recreational and other buildings.

«The pace of construction started on new U.S. homes rose last month to cap the strongest year in seven, according to government data released Wednesday.»

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch)-- The pace of construction started on new U.S. homes rose last month to cap the strongest year in seven, according to government data released Wednesday.