Sentence examples for overseas construction from inspiring English sources

In 1975, American companies won the bidding on nearly 50percentt of all overseas construction projects, according to Bechtel.

We Iraqi engineers were constantly encouraged by our seniors to learn from the overseas construction companies supervising the airport, and other projects.

In June the trade ministry released a sweeping new "growth strategy" that identifies a score of vibrant sectors meriting government assistance, from overseas construction to attracting medical tourists.

"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.

Last year, Japan's largest overseas construction contracts awarded worldwide were for work in Sakhalin, nearly $3 billion for oil and natural gas developments.

Still, in a nod to the Chernobyl legacy, the subsidiary for overseas construction has said that it budgets for public relations activities in countries where it intends to work.

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Perini earned $350 million from overseas government construction in 2004 (of which nearly 90% is Iraq- and Afghanistan-related), up from $300 million the previous year.

But others have gone overseas as the construction companies, architects or space planners for American companies building or taking space in Europe.

But then the market slowed as companies moved their construction overseas and construction jobs disappeared.

Closing some bases in the United States and overseas, and curbing construction, including suspending plans to locate families with troops deployed in South Korea, could save at least $5 billion more over the next decade.