Sentences with phrase «rather than new construction»

It's just one of many spaces created to give the impression that the cottage is a beloved family home, rather than new construction.

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The foundation proposes instead that we should keep urban and non-urban areas clearly separated, and to densify the current cities and towns rather than opening up new construction zones across the countryside.

that scenario qualifies as «new construction» rather than «renovation» so it would be outside the scope of my commentary.

But the administration has now taken a similar tack on a number of other controversial projects, staying silent rather than approving or blocking them, including a major proposed propane storage project in the Finger Lakes, the construction of new liquefied natural gas storage areas across the state and a crude - oil heating facility at the Port of Albany.

Elected on the back of a pledge to build 300,000 new homes each year, housing minister Harold Macmillan soon met and exceeded these targets, largely as the result of public sector rather than private sector construction.

Whether you call it niche construction or techno - physio evolution, it is ultimately punctuated equilibrium by a different name, with culture rather than catastrophe providing the new niches.

He also found no evidence supporting the idea that building new school buildings leads to better teaching and learning; he questioned the priority of spending billions on new construction rather than spending more on classroom learning.

If the bird people really want to protect the birds, they would be better off using their energy to promote «smart growth» for new construction in the District rather than persecuting cats.

Due to budget constraints, it's often more likely that the government will pay for compensation rather than begin a new construction project to fix the problem.

Baltimore architect Finith Jernigan, president of Design Atlantic Ltd. and author of the new book «BIG BIM little bim,» worries that some newcomers are treating BIM as merely a software installation rather than as a new approach to design and construction.

If you are purchasing a new building directly from the developer, your due diligence will focus more heavily on construction and warranty issues rather than the past track record of the property.

Most of the growth in new - home construction in 2015, however, was centered in apartment building rather than single - family homes.

Redmond has quite a few new build homes available for purchase at any given time - however, with limited opportunities for new home building & development, Redmond typically has small pockets of new home construction rather than large new home communities.

Garcia stresses that it's easy to blame foreign buyers for California's housing market woes, rather than focusing on the lack of new construction or other distortions to the state's dysfunctional housing market.