Private developers are behind some of the Chinese super-towers, but quasi-governmental or state-run entities are the builder-operators of many of the tallest structures, and Shanghai Tower is no exception.
On December 10th China General Nuclear Power (CGN), the country's biggest builder and operator of nuclear plants, plans to float shares on the Hong Kong stock exchange (see article).
The Calpine Corporation, a builder and operator of power plants, delayed or canceled $3 billion of turbine purchases and obtained $1.6 billion in bank credit to shore up its finances.
York Research Corporation, a builder and operator of power plants, said its energy-marketing unit has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection because electricity suppliers defaulted on contracts.
MARK THIELE, executive vice president for data center technology at Switch Communications, a Las Vegas builder and operator of data centers, says he thinks wireless technology offers a promising solution to congestion.
"Artists would come to Huddersfield because people were friendlier and more broad-minded than in many areas of Britain in the 1970s," explains Paul Huxtable, builder and operator of the Axis sound system, who wrote the main text of the book.
The prison builder and operator Cornell Companies said yesterday that it was reviewing the accounting of an off-balance-sheet transaction and said the review could have material financial consequences.
According to Marc Boddewyn, vice president of design and construction for the Hudson River Park Trust, the park's builder and operator, Pier 45 is built on 1,200 concrete pilings ranging from 80 to 110 feet in length.
A judge upheld a claim that bidding to select a builder and operator had to be reopened because the project had substantially changed, including a doubling in size, after the city had selected Quincunx, an affiliate of the entertainment management company Q Prime, for both roles.
Today it's the world's largest builder and operator of mines after a push into iron ore and coal.
Florida Power and Light has a non-regulated subsidiary that's the nation's largest builder and operator of wind farms.
