Sentence examples for idle construction from inspiring English sources

Some Republican support was due to the push for more road and bridge building, which creates good-paying jobs for idle construction workers.

What with record low interest rates, idle construction workers and a huge backlog of worthy projects, there has never been a better time to invest in infrastructure.

With the help of the mayor's office, Frades board members found a place to keep the children: an idle construction site where a foundation had been laid for a nightclub that never materialized.

Yet many of the buildings -- perhaps the majority -- are half-finished, and the idle construction skeletons all over Ashgabat give the impression of a city flash-frozen, like something thrown on dry ice.

One of those plants, LG Chem Michigan, which was to produce batteries for the Chevy Volt, has remained idle since construction, and another, A123 Systems – the company that made batteries for the beleaguered electric carmaker Fisker Automotive – went bankrupt and was acquired by a Chinese auto parts maker in December.

The housing bust has idled contractors and construction workers, who could be put to work insulating homes and caulking air leaks.

But the strike has all but halted or greatly slowed work at scores of sites, from the Freedom Tower at ground zero to apartment buildings, idling thousands of construction workers and unnerving developers and contractors in all five boroughs.

Volker Treier, chief economist at the German Chambers of Industry and Commerce, told the newspaper Bild on Monday that unless weather patterns changed drastically, the frigid start to the year would cost nearly $3 billion, mostly because of the idling of the construction sector and the resulting delay in orders for furnishings and appliances.

With construction idling, steel producers have been acutely vulnerable to downside risks in the current market environment.

There is also plenty of idle capacity in the construction industry — unemployed workers, unused machinery.

MADRID — In the arid Spanish Mediterranean city of Torrevieja, Europe's biggest desalination plant stands idle six years after construction began.