'build equipment' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the construction or assembly of machines or tools. Example sentence: The factory workers were expected to build equipment for the new production line.
"You can build equipment, but you may not have the infrastructure in place to provide services," Mr. Schnacke said.
There are other ways to build equipment to detect smuggled nuclear material, but helium-3 is nontoxic and nonradioactive and is considered more accurate.
He said cutting London's transport infrastructure would damage not just the capital, but areas all around the UK where firms build equipment for the city.
Metals such as nickel and iron, which are plentiful on Earth, could be processed while in orbit and used to build equipment or spacecraft.
More broadly, Intel has long wanted to create a global wireless network that mirrors today's land-based Internet, in which dozens of competitors build equipment to support a single open standard.
Under a $1 billion initiative announced in July, four oil majors — Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Exxon and Shell — said they would design and build equipment that could be used to contain and cap well blowouts at depths of up to 10,000 feet.
To facilitate their work, the staff designed and built equipment, most notably the bulky electromechanical code-breaking machines called Bombes.
Though many of those systems are very expensive, they are beginning to drop in cost and make their way into the commercial world, said Arthur Soma, product manager at Barnebey Sutcliffe, a company in Columbus, Ohio, that builds equipment for the program.
Solectron builds equipment for giants such as Hewlett-Packard and International Business Machines.
"We need a new defence industrial strategy which builds equipment to fit requirements, has tough targets on time and cost for industry and ensures greater accountability within the MoD".
"I worry more about [the skills gap] than I worry about competition from China," Paul Rauscher, president of a Wisconsin company that builds equipment for the paper and packaging industry, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
