"building upon previous work" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a person, organization, or project continuing the progress of a previous project or idea. For example, "The team is building upon previous work done by their predecessors in order to bring the project to fruition."
Building upon previous work describing declining rates and socioeconomic disparities in sexual and reproductive health (SRH) service use among young women in the United States, we reexamined patterns and determinants of SRH service use in 2006 2010.
It is shown that, central to these practices are a series of tools, models and databases which, in building upon previous work (Eden, 2012; Star and Griesemer, 1989) we conceptualize here as 'boundary objects'.
Building upon previous work, we designed and prepared a series of heterocyclic chalcone-based Nrf2 activators with reduced lipophilicity and, in some cases, greater in vitro potency compared to the respective carbocyclic scaffold.
Building upon previous work by the author and other dust explosion researchers, the theme of the current paper is that this complexity is partially rooted in several erroneous beliefs.
We consider the problem of evaluating the scattering of TE polarized electromagnetic waves by two-dimensional penetrable inhomogeneities: building upon previous work [IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag. 48 (2000 1862]] we present a practical and general fast integral equation algorithm for this problem.
Building upon previous work in waste heat recovery and reuse without consideration of cogeneration, this work establishes a systematic approach to target heat and power cogeneration potentials within industrial zones and to design the corresponding optimal waste heat recovery and reuse networks.
Building upon previous works by Billera et al. (2001), Miller et al. (2012), Owen and Provan (2011) and Bačák (2013, 2014), we propose here to define and compute posterior mean in a sound manner, an approach so far hindered by the poor geometrical insights into the space of phylogenetic trees (see also Gascuel, 2005).
Dr. Raine said the findings build upon previous work indicating that the frontal lobe may be linked to antisocial behavior.
This work builds upon previous work by considering the proppant distribution in the fracture growth.
We build upon previous work to provide a proof of concept for generic control of AMHSs in different domains.
Finnerty ([1976b]) builds upon previous work (by Jaffe [1974]; Finnerty [1976a] and others) to move one step further.
