The phrase "this work builds on" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It is typically used to describe how a piece of writing or research is based on previous work or ideas. Example: "This study builds on the research conducted by Smith et al. (2018) and expands upon their findings by examining a wider range of variables."
This work builds on and extends our previous research [6], with the following new contributions.
This work builds on, and improves, our prior work on two-dimensional HLL Riemann solvers.
This work builds on previous investigations into more traditional production environments.
This work builds on our previous work where we explore online profiling of live execution in a cloud setting [9].
This work builds on investigations by John H. Sinfelt and co-workers of ethane hydrogenolysis over Group VIII metals.
Most discussions of bureaucratic politics begin with Graham T. Allison's 1969 article in The American Political Science Review, "Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis," although this work built on earlier writings by Charles Lindblom, Richard Neustadt, Samuel Huntington, and others.
This work built on the even earlier work on religious language by Philo (20 BCE–50 Clementement (150 215), and Origen of Alexandria (185 259).
For this purpose, this work built on previous studies in the same Laboratory (Sayadi and Ellouz 1995; Sayadi et al. 2000; Dhouib et al. 2005; Mekki et al. 2006a; Mekki et al. 2006b; Mekki et al. 2007; Mekki et al. 2008; Mekki et al. 2009; Mekki et al. 2012) attempted to assess the benefits of reusing treated OMW in ferti-irrigation.
This work built on the prior zinc finger design work of others and in targeting these four genes had a 100% success rate at designing nucleases to the consensus half-site 5′-GNNGNNGNN-3′ and the consensus full site 5′-NNCNNCNNCNNNNNNGNNGNNGNN-3′, suggesting that zinc finger nucleases can be empirically designed to stimulate gene targeting in a large portion of the mammalian genome.
This work built on the discovery that C. neoformans can assimilate creatinine as sole source of carbon and nitrogen.
