"construct the foundation" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the process of building the base of a structure. For example, "The construction workers have begun to construct the foundation for the new office building."
However, both challenges represent a stimulus for a more sustained interaction between science, the social sciences and the humanities to construct the foundations for tomorrow's initiatives in international science policy.
"As constructed, the foundation would not be viable for longer than 10 years," Mr. O'Hanlon wrote to the board.
The last time Brazil faced a water crisis of this magnitude, a small private utility -- the Sao Paulo Railway and Light Company -- was at work constructing the foundation of a modern infrastructure to supply water and power.
It was to erect a structure for which R. A. Craig had already constructed the foundation.
European states have made progress in constructing the foundations of a banking union since setting that objective in mid-2012, atheheightght of the euro crisis.
Costain constructed the foundations and cable tunnels; Sir Robert McAlpine laid the roads and built the ancillary buildings; Mowlem laid the deep foundations; Alfred McAlpine built the administration and control buildings; Balfour Beatty undertook general building works; and James Scott installed cabling.
The correctly expressing cdh23-bait construct is the foundation for successful identification of potential cdh23-associated proteins in the membrane-based yeast two hybrid system.
This construct is the foundation of the Semantic Media Wiki (SMW) system, an extension of the basic MediaWiki framework intended originally to enable the creation of a 'Semantic Wikipedia' (8, 9).
Through multiple iterations this framework provided the foundation to construct the survey questions which were then compared with existing tools measuring patient attitudes on the topic.
