Despite U.S.demands for Israel to stop or restrain construction of Jewish housing in disputed East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank, during the Biden visit Israeli officials announced their approval of construction of 1,600 new Jewish housing units in East Jerusalem.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

They were really built in as part of the architecture in each of the different construction stages of the Capitol."

VOA: special.2010.01.27

David Lanfear ownsan eco-friendly home building service in the United States called Bale on Bale Construction.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

The only agriculture program currently offered in Dubai is construction management.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

"It is a plant that will create thousands of construction jobs in the next few years, and some eight hundred permanent jobs well paying permanent jobs in the years to come."

VOA: special.2010.02.19

Historian and naval officer Samuel Eliot Morison described the fighting this way in his book "The Struggle for Guadalcanal": "For us who were there, or whose friends were there, Guadalcanal is not a name but an emotion, recalling desperate fights in the air, furious night naval battles, frantic work at supply or construction, savage fighting in the sodden jungle, nights broken by screaming bombs and deafening explosions of naval shells."

VOA: special.2011.06.23

Jewish settlement councils have declared a general strike to protest the Israeli government's freeze on construction in West Bank communities.

VOA: standard.2010.01.03

On Wednesday, President Abbas' spokesman, Abu Rudeineh welcomed President Obama's criticism of the plans for new construction in Gilo.

VOA: standard.2009.11.18

They demand that Israel freeze all construction on Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank before any negotiations start.

VOA: standard.2009.10.31

The U.S.has also pledged an additional $10 million for the construction of five new UNRWA schools in the Gaza Strip.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

U.S.officials have put pressure on the Israeli government to halt construction of settlements in east Jerusalem and the West Bank.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

Current construction of 2,500 homes in the West Bank will continue along with 455 additional new housing units approved this week.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

The planned construction is on lands that Israel captured as part of its victory in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.

VOA: standard.2009.11.18

"In the short term, we expect these projects to create about 5,000 construction and installation jobs around the country."

VOA: standard.2010.07.02

Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat says that will not happen until Israel stops all settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

"Our report shows that the construction in the settlements never stopped and this is not a settlement freeze,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

Israel has approved construction of 900 new units in mostly Arab east Jerusalem despite objections by the United States and the Palestinians.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

A Commerce Department report showing that new home construction fell to an eight-month low in June - only added to the unease.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

Also,Israel will not halt construction in disputed East Jerusalem, which it sees as part of the indivisible capital of the Jewish state.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

Under the Israeli offer, construction of 3,000 Jewish homes in the West Bank would continue, but no new projects would be approved.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

"In the moratorium just announced by the government of Israel, there will be no new housing construction starts during the 10-month period.,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.25