Even Robert V. Canton, director of the convention consulting business at PricewaterhouseCoopers, which has done studies advocating construction of larger meeting halls, now agrees that a problem of overbuilding looms in the convention and trade show business.
She also was on the boards of the Orange County Emergency Food and Shelter Board Program, Housing California, the Leadership Council for Housing and Community Development, Community Forum, the Orange County Community Housing Corp. and the Kennedy Commission, a nonprofit group that advocates construction of affordable housing.
Yesterday, while advocating construction of new nuclear reactors, he said that, "if we want to enable the technologies of tomorrow like plug-in electric cars, we need electricity to plug into," implying that the electricity that can be generated by nuclear reactors can be used in electric cars.
Some of Mr. Netanyahu's more moderate ministers have long advocated limiting construction to the large settlement blocs.
Appointed naval commander in chief in 1928, he advocated the construction of submarines forbidden by the Versailles Treaty and fast cruisers to satisfy German naval needs.
The Shed is to rise west of Penn Station, at 30th Street between 10th and 11th Avenues, as part of the redevelopment of the Hudson Yards, a stretch of the Far West Side where the mayor has long advocated new construction.
34. Gordon Wu '58 – Builder and philanthropist; chairman of the board of Hong Kong-listed Asian infrastructure firm Hopewell Holdings Ltd.; advocated the construction of Asia's largest bridge project linking Hong Kong, Macau and China's Zhuhai city; major benefactor to Princeton ($100 million).
For part of two decades, De Leede advocated for construction of the six-mile, roughly $5 million bike and pedestrian route that connected denser areas of Lorton with the parks on the Mason Neck peninsula.
London Mayor Boris Johnson has advocated the construction of a new airport on an artificial island in the Thames Estuary, a major expansion at Stansted, or an airport at the Isle of Grain in north Kent.
