The phrase "a proponent of building" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing someone who supports or advocates for construction or development projects.
Example: "As a proponent of building sustainable communities, she often speaks at conferences about eco-friendly architecture."
Alternatives: "an advocate for construction" or "a supporter of development".
Once a proponent of building more reactors, Prime Minister Naoto Kan has called for nuclear power to be phased out.
Still, Mark Skeels, the Bears' first-year general manager, remains a proponent of building a team by finding the next unemployed big leaguer.
More recently, Mr. Rowland, up for re-election in November and once a proponent of building a new casino in Bridgeport, has come out against any further Indian gaming operations in the state.
I'm certainly a proponent of building a strong online presence and a reputational firewall, but I think there's more to it.
That's why I'm a proponent of building a retirement portfolio that includes the asset class that has historically done a better job of overcoming the risk of inflation: equities!
Always a proponent of building startups for Europe, Halstead is also realistic.
Gardiner was a major proponent of building a highway through the valley, since his days in the 1940s with the Toronto and York Planning Board.
Professor Kempton is also a leading proponent of building wind turbines off the mid-Atlantic coast, and sees the electric car and the wind machine as complementary tools for a low-carbon energy system.
Rose said that while the Obama administration has done little to shrink the national security bureaucracy that Bush built, Romney "was an affirmative, unapologetic proponent of building a domestic surveillance infrastructure" that is "really focused on 'the enemy within.'".
These include Carl Fisher, best known today, if known at all, as the founder of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, but who a century ago was the country's leading proponent of building better roads.
Salvagers extract their treasures from about one in 10 homes, because there is only a market for the contents of houses built before 1930, said Stephen Tilly, an architect in Dobbs Ferry and a proponent of recycling building materials.
