'erect building' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a building that is tall and upright. For example, "The skyline of the city was dotted with large, erect buildings."
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Taking advantage of the air rights they would purchase, developers could erect buildings on Eighth Avenue about 40percentt larger and bulkier than had been allowed.
In Mesopotamia, where it was the custom to erect buildings over the remains of levelled ruins, the ancient past literally provided the foundations of new temples.
By day, some 150 migrants erect buildings to expand the shelter, chop firewood, clean, take care of one another's children.
To do their work, Mark Loizeaux and his brother Doug need to understand the same forces and formulas that structural engineers study, but instead of using that knowledge to erect buildings they use it to take them down.
It enables them to sell "air rights" -- the theoretical development space above their buildings -- to others who would use those rights to erect buildings elsewhere in a zoning district bounded by 40th and 57th Streets, and by Eighth Avenue and Avenue of the Americas.
The developers initially got permission in 2002 and 2003 to erect buildings twice as large as other buildings on the block because they promised that they would be used to house teachers.
Number crunching has always been a big part of construction – a commonly heard phrase is that construction companies are accounting companies which happen to erect buildings.
Continental plans to erect buildings on those lots to meet the specifications of buyers or renters in what is known as "build to suit" construction.
