Like most coalition bases, Shank employs many Afghans, most of them in low-level construction, maintenance and service jobs.
Low-level construction has already begun at Hinkley but EDF caused a stir by halting all work on its ground preparation just before the election, explains Lodge.
A 2010 survey called Beyond the Boom, a joint effort from six agents, identified high levels of occupancy at 92 per cent and stabilised sales, but low levels of construction, with 30 schemes with planning permission stalled and unlikely to proceed.
House builders have also reported more activity, from extremely low levels of construction during the financial crisis.
New York, for example, has the lowest level of construction relative to its population, which constrains supply and vacancy, allowing the market to correct more quickly.
And it does not include all the other effects of the housing crash, including the low level of new home construction, that are also weighing on the economy.
In that report, the CNNIC also stated that stated that: "At present the Internet penetration rate among SMEs in China still remained at a low level and the broadband construction needed to be pushed further.
As the construction trades, especially roofing, are relatively dangerous, the low rates of occupational fatalities in these states are likely due to the low level of new home construction there.
It suggests even today's low level of single-family construction might still be too much, too soon.
At the same time experts in construction industry draw attention to the low level of competitiveness of Polish construction companies in global and European market caused, among others, by insufficient application of modern technology and innovation, as well as lack of public investor's initiative in promoting the application of BIM.
Construction employment is starting to turn up, but from a very low level: There are about as many construction workers now as there were in 1997.
