PowerGenix, which makes nickel-zinc batteries, announced a joint venture with China City Construction Corp. earlier this year.

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Known as CICC, it is a joint venture between state-owned China Construction Bank and the New York investment bank Morgan Stanley.

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It will be launched at the joint annual conference of industry advisory group Construction Scotland and building standards body BRE Scotland in Glasgow.

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The province now boasts more than 5, 000 native-owned businesses, some of them joint-ventures, ranging from pipeline construction and timber production to hotels and boat-building.

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Work is being carried out by Interlink M74 JV, a joint venture comprising Balfour Beatty, Morgan Est, Morrison Construction and Sir Robert McAlpine.

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GCL-Poly recently created a joint venture with New Jersey-based NRG Energy to provide solar power plant engineering and construction services.

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The proposed plan would retire seven cruisers early, delay construction of the next large-deck amphibious warfare ship by one year, cancel the second Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN) in 2014, delay construction of two smaller amphibious warfare ships, and reduce procurement of littoral combat ships by two and joint high speed vessels by eight.

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