Mr. Anderson, at Prudential Douglas Elliman, said units could be had for $1,200 per square foot but added that in rare new construction, like a highly regarded brick building at 211 Elizabeth Street, prices were $2,000 per square foot or higher.
In a rare count, Construction Week, a local trade publication, canvassed foreign embassies and estimated that nearly 900 foreign construction workers died in 2004, though it could not say what percentage of the deaths were work-related.
Such projects are rare, and construction work is erratic, so politicians with contracts to award have immense leverage.
The upshot is that it is a rare major construction company whose job sites or home offices are not aswarm with laptops, digital cameras and scanners, as well as hand-held devices that connect to the Internet and others that can double as phones and two-way radios and are able to send and receive e-mail.
High-level softwares with ability of data analyzing and decision support are rare in building construction industry.
This average is somewhere around $1.7 million, Mr. Hof said, but they can go much higher; his wife and business partner, Susanna Hof, pointed out that a rare new-construction house on Tennis Place with seven bedrooms and five and a half baths is on the market for $5.9 million.
Shorter is a rare thing in construction: a skilled young recruit at the end of a plumbing apprenticeship.
"You have to push yourself and your own merits no matter what your background, [and clothes] maketh the man," he once said, being both commendably honest about his modus operandi as well as employing a far too rare archaic verb construction.
As re-decking is relatively a rare and unknown construction event for a Cable Bridge, unexpected risk event and uncertainty would be associated with complex engineering manoeuvring during the re-decking of the bridge.
This rare ban on construction was supported by the Species at Risk Act, making the western chorus frog the first species to be protected on private property, and one of the only species the federal government has protected under emergency circumstances.
