About 1, 000 temporary jobs would be created during the construction period, which would start in 2017.

BBC: Navitus Bay wind farm 'to create 1,000 temp jobs'

More than 3, 000 trucks will arrive over the construction period.

WSJ: In London, the Queen Gets New Neighbors: Olympic Beach Volleyball Crowd

"The real issue is that the Treasury should agree to our request for the Scottish Government to be able to pay for such a large, once-in-a-generation capital project over a longer period of time beyond the construction period, rather than within a few short years, " said a Scottish Government spokesman.

BBC: New bridge funding row continues

There were 78 construction deaths in this period, 30% of the total.

BBC: Tayside and Central Scotland

Meanwhile, during the same period, construction jobs rose from 7.2% to 7.5% and the sum of service sector and government employment rose from 40.8% to 41.1%.

FORBES: Brazil: A Bubble In Labor Markets

The production sector increased by 1.1%, primarily driven by growth in electricity and gas supply, and construction also grew by 0.6% following a period of contraction.

BBC: Scottish economy grows by 0.5%

Knowledge sharing led to extremely successful business opportunities for companies like GE and construction company Cemex (in green energy and building materials directed toward the bottom of the period in Latin America, respectively).

FORBES: The Case for Crowdsourcing Innovation and Social Change

The average probability that a private construction company would default in the next year was 3.79 percent for the 12-month period ended Dec. 31, compared with 5.73 percent for the year-earlier period.

FORBES: Private-company credit risk shows signs of improving