Sentence examples for construction rise from inspiring English sources

AS the standards for environmentally friendly construction rise, a Brooklyn developer has a new goal: renovate an apartment building so it generates as much energy as it uses.

The big driver of building construction was residential buildings, up by 9.9%, the biggest annual rise since the stimulus measures during the GFC saw residential building construction rise 13.3% in the 12 months to September 2010.

The word generate has appeared in 5,290 New York Times articles in the past year, including on May 27 in "Off-the-Grid Living in Brooklyn" by Ronda Kaysen: As the standards for environmentally friendly construction rise, a Brooklyn developer has a new goal: renovate an apartment building so it generates as much energy as it uses.

Dense levels of construction rise within a city airspace like the abandoned white bones of a civilization.

Construction rose for single-family homes and apartments.

Manufacturing expanded 5.5percentt, construction rose 7.8percentt and agriculture gained 2.4percentt.

Construction rose 4.4percentt rather than the 0.8percentt estimated last month.

With supply shrinking, new houses are at last being built: construction rose steadily through 2012.

Housing permits, a gauge of future construction, rose last month to the highest level since December.

And permits, a gauge of future construction, rose largely because of a jump in apartment permits.

Single-family construction rose 11 percent to the fastest rate in four years.