The phrase "construction commenced" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when referring to the beginning of a building project, or any other kind of construction. For example, "The construction of the new bridge commenced last week."
Construction commenced on the building's south tower because all seven board members happened to live there.
Construction commenced in 2001, and the project was completed in 2004.
Construction commenced on three tunnel segments in 1972 but was soon halted, because of the fiscal crisis.
With a letter of intent in hand from a large corporation to lease a third of the 1.5-million-square-foot building, now known as 1166 Avenue of the Americas, construction commenced.
Thanks to a proper investigation program and a large amount of geological investigations and analysis the karst conditions and major karst zones in the dam site had been identified before the construction commenced.
These designs were fully developed, and all elements prototyped and tested, over many years before construction commenced around 1997.
Any of those alternative approaches would require rigorous study and testing before construction commences.
The environment proposed is one that fully utilizes the strengths of intelligent collaborative computer agents that interact with the multi-discipline pre-construction team to interrogate and refine the design solution before construction commences.
"It has been established that the dwelling places of a number of spirits will require relocation either before construction commences or before the reservoir area is inundated," AES said in an environmental report that it submitted to the World Bank, which is providing financial backing for much of the project.
In early June, construction commences on the Brody Learning Commons, named to honor the university's 13th president, William R. Brody, and his wife, Wendy.
The first pieces of ride track arrived on site in April 2013, with vertical construction commencing in the following month.
