With such a big urban area already built up, though, vast construction projects have a progressively smaller impact on the economy.
Meanwhile, China is by far the fastest-growing foreign influence on Africa, mainly through its vast construction projects in places like Congo-Brazzaville.
Vast construction projects to dig up oil sands in Canada and drill for conventional oil across the Middle East and Africa are under way, driving up the price of steel.
The Qatar 2022 "supreme committee" is currently appointing a programme manager to scope out the 11-year schedule, which must interlock with massive infrastructure works including a new train system, roads and vast construction projects.
Some experts on China said that the Olympics, with its vast construction projects and heavy dose of national pride, will also be a breeding ground for corruption and cost overruns.
Enormous amounts of New Deal funding enabled the city to complete vast construction and other projects; the Tammany Tiger was caged, the government was centralized and modernized, and the subway system was completed and unified.
He spent all of it, shovelling vast sums into construction projects.
However, in Hong Kong, where bamboo is legal, it is still used in a vast majority of construction projects.
A joint venture between the casino operator MGM Mirage and Dubai World, the vast CityCenter development in Las Vegas is the biggest privately funded construction project in the US.
A construction project yields archeological surprises.
