The phrase "authorities to construct" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where permission or power is granted to entities to build or create something, often in legal or formal documents.
Example: "The city granted the authorities to construct a new bridge over the river to improve transportation."
Alternatives: "permission to build" or "authorization to create".
It was up to the local authorities to construct approach roads".
In 2006 a dispute broke out regarding an initiative by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles (backed by Israeli authorities) to construct a Museum of Tolerance (MoT) in West Jerusalem.
If we were to rest the case at this high level of generality, there would be little check on the ability of the authorities to construct roadblocks for almost any conceivable law enforcement purpose.
Mr. Makiya has received permission from the occupation authorities to construct a museum that will house, among other items, a collection of state documents on the torture and executions ordered during the three decades of the Baathist regime.
Increased energy demands for industry and domestic use beginning in the early 1980s led to a decision by the national authorities to construct one of China's first two nuclear power plants at Qinshan, in nearby Zhejiang province.
People had to leave their homes, which were seen as being in the danger zone, while they waited for the authorities to construct retaining walls to safeguard their homes against floodwaters.
"We don't have the legal authority to construct anything, to operate anything, nothing.
Reporters were getting broader authority to construct their stories and to explain the underlying meaning of events.
And it is not clear that federal drug regulators have the authority to construct or approve one.
"Usually what happens is if the approval is invalidated, the proponent may have to do a few more things and the PAC has to go through the process again because Shenhua would have no lawful authority to construct," Higginson said.
"The text of the statute and its legislative history flatly refute the proposition that the Legislature granted the city the authority to construct a development such as Willets West in Flushing Meadows Park," Judge Rowan Wilson wrote.
