But perhaps they should be.... 10.15am BST Stefan Friedhoff, global corporates managing director for construction at Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking, is also cheered by today's construction data: "Clearly much of the positive news is coming from the residential sector, with demand for new houses high.
Stefan Friedhoff, managing director for construction at Lloyds Bank commercial banking, said: "Much of the evidence – both in surveys and anecdotally – points towards a market that is cooling slightly as the year draws to a close, so this official data is unlikely to come as a total surprise.
"We have not had any construction in Iraq since before the gulf war," said Kim Heung Jin, deputy director for overseas construction at the construction ministry.
Avoid the "for" construction.
John Curry, lead flight director for station construction, said at a news conference today at the Johnson Space Center in Houston that the extra time was needed to work to solve problems in the Canadian-built arm, which could require astronauts to replace parts on spacewalks.
"This becomes the replacement for the bridge that was destroyed on 9/11," said Henry R. Caso, director of construction for Brookfield Properties, the principal owner of the World Financial Center and Winter Garden.
"Basically they will e-mail us a shopping cart," said Hal Walker, the director of construction for Reynolds.
While the floor plates are the same for all floors, they had to be rotated to various degrees, said Anthony Pignetti, a vice president and director of construction for the Dominus Construction Group, which built the Absolute towers.
Joe Montano, a director of construction for the Extell Development Company, which does not own 140 Riverside but helps oversee the fan system, said the fans draw diesel fumes out of the Amtrak train tunnel that runs beneath.
There was a knighthood for John Armitt, chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority, and a CBE for his director of construction, Howard Shiplee.
James F. Moore, the director of construction education for the United States Golf Association, said he had a hard time envisioning a course built without modern equipment like mechanized levelers, seeders or powered trenching equipment.
