With support from a few philanthropists and his own savings, Mr Hajabba managed to construct a small building for the primary school.

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The Severn Valley Railway (SVR) plans to construct a new station building in Bridgnorth and restore the existing 1862 building.

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Abdul Halim, an official with Savar's engineering department, said the owner of Rana Plaza was originally allowed to construct a five-story building but added another three stories illegally.

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Two thousand years hence, Sherwood says hypothesized collections of Asteroidal materials congregating at the Earth-Sun L4 and L5 gravitational equilibrium points would make for building materials to construct a large rotating pancake disk capable of housing thousands of people in the comfort of a free-breathing atmosphere and some form of artificial gravity.

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As a pre-fabricated structure it also took less time to construct and was cheaper than a conventional steel and concrete building, says Liddell.

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It's tempting to construct the tallest building in the world, a stick-in-your-eye message to America's enemies.

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