The phrase "abandoning construction" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where a project or plan related to construction is being discontinued or left behind.
Example: "Due to budget constraints, the city is considering abandoning construction on the new bridge."
Alternatives: "ceasing construction" or "halting construction".
Last summer the plant's owner, Southern Company, America's second-largest utility company, announced it was abandoning construction after years of blown-out budgets and missed construction deadlines.
But now, in a big setback for Uruguay, ENCE, one of the two companies involved, has announced that it is abandoning construction of its plant on the contested border site, raising the prospect of renewed protests over the other factory.The project involves a total planned investment of $1.7 billion, representing 10% of Uruguay's GDP.
The proposal is pretty clearly aimed at Amazon's own expansion, and the company is taking the move to heart, potentially abandoning construction on a new building and just moving into a pre-existing space instead.
This success, along with the unofficial news in several naval publications of 15- and 16-inch weapons being adopted by Britain, Italy, Germany and Japan, the Board considered abandoning construction of the in favor of an up-gunned design.
Several investigations have failed to establish the fate of the Petrocaribe funds, beyond mismanagement including spending on abandoned construction projects.
We chose the missile field around Grand Forks, N.D., but abandoned construction there as not worth the effort.
When I went in March, the city was filled with abandoned construction projects, their steel girders stabbing the sky from concrete shells.
In Riga, the capital, abandoned construction sites, vast lots of repossessed cars and a new, utterly empty shopping mall testify to the misery.
The property was a steel skeleton when Evans, a family-owned company whose principals are Louis and Peter Evangelista, bought it a year ago from a builder forced to abandon construction because of financial difficulties.
On North Korea's desolate eastern coast, 600 miles directly across the Sea of Japan from here, soldiers guard an abandoned construction site where two light-water nuclear reactors were to be built.
It looks like an ordinary abandoned construction site, but the hole at 1610 Avenue S in the Homecrest section of Brooklyn offers a history of the twisted limbs of government and building in New York.
