* 1173 – Construction of the campanile of the cathedral of Pisa ( now known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa ) begins ; it will take two centuries to complete.

* 1420 – Construction of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore begins in Florence.

* 2006 – Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City.

* 1795 – Construction of Yonge Street, formerly recognized as the longest street in the world, begins in York, Upper Canada ( present-day Toronto, Ontario ).

* 1994 – Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River.

* 1920 – Construction of the Link River Dam begins as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project.

* 2009 – Construction begins on the new Lansing City Market along the Grand River and the river trail in downtown Lansing.

* 1782 – Construction begins on the Grand Palace, the royal residence of the King of Siam in Bangkok, at the command of King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.

* 1872 – Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins ; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain.

* 1975 – Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.

* 1909 – Construction of the ill fated RMS Titanic begins.

* 1887 – Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal begins at Eastham.

* September 21 – Construction of the Rideau Canal begins in Canada.

* December 16 – Construction begins on the RMS Olympic at the Harland and Wolff Shipyards in Belfast.

* March – Construction begins on the Badger Army Ammunition Plant ( the largest in the United States during WWII ).

* Construction work begins in 1059 on the Parma Cathedral of Italy.

* Construction begins on the Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev, Ukraine, in 1037.

* Construction of Richmond Castle in England begins in 1071.

* Construction begins on the Sassovivo Abbey of Foligno, Italy, in 1070.

* Construction of the Ponte della Maddalena bridge in the Province of Lucca, Italy begins in 1080.

* Construction begins on the Bagrati Cathedral in Georgia in 1003.

* Construction begins on the Great Zimbabwe National Monument, sometime in the century.

* Construction begins on the San Pietro in Vinculis in Pisa, Italy, in 1072.

* Construction begins on the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Spain in 1075.

* Construction of Moscow's Ostankino Tower begins.

Construction on what would in time become the world famous Great Mosque of Córdoba was started circa the year 786.

Construction was stopped on a 7-block extension to the line due to the removal and scrapping of rails, ties, and other items of railroad equipment by the DOT, which were stored on land that was slated for the " Fairway " supermarket project.

Construction began on the first residential building in 1980, followed in 1981 with the start of construction on the World Financial Center.

Construction began during summer 1853, on a site some north-west of the original building, which was considered to have a better outlook.

Every year, the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software ( ETAPS ) sponsors the International Conference on Compiler Construction ( CC ), with papers from both the academic and industrial sectors.

* Payne-Gallwey, Ralph, Sir, The Crossbow: Mediaeval and Modern, Military and Sporting ; its Construction, History & Management with a Treatise on the Balista and Catapult of the Ancients and An Appendix on the Catapult, Balista & the Turkish Bow, New York: Bramhall House, 1958.

CPRR logo on a gilded " Staff " uniform button ( 1867 ) Construction of the road was financed primarily by 30-year, 6 % U. S. Government Bonds authorized by Sec.

Construction of a second terminal began in 2007 and was officially opened on 19 November 2010.

Construction of a dodecahedron basing on a cube

Construction of a high temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cell | PEMFC: Bipolar plate as electrode with in-milled gas channel structure, fabricated from conductive composite material | composite s ( enhanced with graphite, carbon black, carbon fiber, and / or carbon nanotube s for more conductivity ); Porous carbon papers ; reactive layer, usually on the polymer membrane applied ; polymer membrane. Condensation of water produced by a PEMFC on the air channel wall.

Construction continues on a bridge linking Guyana and Brazil at Lethem.

It was accelerated after the Sejm ( Polish parliament ) passed the Gdynia Seaport Construction Act on 23 September 1922.

* Hash Fuction Construction for Textual and Geometrical Data Retrieval Latest Trends on Computers, Vol. 2, pp. 483 – 489, CSCC conference, Corfu, 2010

Construction of Northwode Chapel by the monks of Jumiéges, Normandy, began in about 1140 and this became the present St Peter's Church and now the oldest surviving church on the Island.

Construction began in 1994 and the Gardens ' initial 5 acres ( 20, 000 m2 ) were officially dedicated on September 16, 1995.

* 1910 – Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at.

A Hong Kong building boom in the mid 1970s saw Jardine's buy Gammon Construction, the largest construction and civil engineering group on the island.