As the JRC research has found, it is generally the case that the social acceptance of large infrastructure projects is mostly interested in the passive consent for the construction of such projects [7].
Yet the construction of large pipeline infrastructures usually constitutes a major and time-consuming undertaking, because of safety and environmental issues, legal and (geo political siting arguments, technically un-trivial installation processes, and/or high investment cost requirements.
A key turning point of modern history is the development of concrete and cementitious composites, which permitted the construction of large-scale civil infrastructure systems that serve as the foundation of society today.
By 2010, Caterpillar plans to introduce a North American heavy-duty truck for severe service applications, such as road construction, large infrastructure projects and petroleum development, as part of the alliance with Navistar.
Nowhere are the problems with this approach more apparent than in the attempt to plan urbanisation, which entailed the construction of large new cities – complete with modern infrastructure and plentiful housing – that have yet to be occupied.
Efforts were needed "to change public attitudes regarding the construction of large-scale overhead transmission infrastructure," it said; otherwise, "alternative solutions" to overhead lines over the Pyrenees, like underground and underwater cables, "may need to be considered".
5) Construction of large offshore wind farms.
Balfour Beatty said in November that annual profit would beat forecasts but that its UK construction business remained starved of the large infrastructure projects that are its traditional big earners.
And with Gaza's only aquifer already endangered, it said, a "huge investment" is required in water and sanitation infrastructure, including long-term solutions like the construction of large-scale seawater desalination plants.
The construction of a large metropolitan infrastructure, like other megaprojects, requires advanced technical expertise, capacity to manage complex procedures and planning processes as well as capacity to deal with conflicting interests.
