Takeshita served as Chief Cabinet Secretary from 1971 to 1974, as Minister of Construction in 1976.

He holds several ministerial portfolios outside the Cabinet: Building and Construction, Customs, Statistics and Land Information.

In the Cabinet re-shuffle on 31 October 2007, Jones was made a Cabinet Minister with the portfolios of Building and Construction, and was made an Associate Minister in charge of Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations, Immigration and Trade.

In the Cabinet of Prime Minister Taro Aso, appointed on 24 September 2008, Nakayama was appointed as Minister of Construction and Transport.

On 2 April 2003, Federal Cabinet decided to extend the operation of the Building Industry Task Force, pending the establishment of the proposed Australian Building and Construction Commission (' ABCC ').

* Construction of the Colossus computer, which was used by British codebreakers to read encrypted German messages during World War II.

Construction on the road began on 19 September 1919, built by approximately 3, 000 returned servicemen as a war memorial for fellow servicemen who had been killed in World War I.

Construction of Fort De Soto, on Mullet Key facing the mouth of Tampa Bay, was begun in 1898 during the Spanish-American War to protect Tampa Bay from potential invading forces.

Construction continued sporadically throughout the First World War, and the new station finally opened in 1922 with 21 platforms and a concourse nearly 800 feet ( 250 m ) long.

Construction continued throughout the 1930s, but slowed drastically throughout the Second World War, as it had done during the First.

Construction continued throughout World War I: some of the monks were of German nationality, but were not sent to an internment camp, on condition that they remained confined to the Abbey grounds.

Construction began, but was interrupted by the outbreak of World War II.

Construction of the Red River Army Depot and Lone Star Ammunition Plant west of Texarkana offered new jobs for the region during and after World War II.

Construction by the Bureau of Reclamation began in 1942, was halted during World War II, and completed in 1948.

Construction in Inverness was halted during World War II.

Construction began in October 1949, but was interrupted by the Korean War.

These include Pinball Construction Set ( 1983 ), ASCII's War Game Construction Kit ( 1983 ), Thunder Force Construction ( 1984 ), Adventure Construction Set ( 1984 ), Garry Kitchen's GameMaker ( 1985 ), Wargame Construction Set ( 1986 ), Shoot ' Em-Up Construction Kit ( 1987 ), Arcade Game Construction Kit ( 1988 ), and most popularly ASCII's RPG Maker engines from 1988 onwards.

Construction of fortifications started in 1673 during the Gyldenløve War as Hammersberg Skanse ( also referred to as Terningen Skanse ); the bastion of which is still preserved today.

Construction was still unfinished when World War II started in 1939, but was then rushed through and the buildings were reassigned as a prisoner of war camp, the Stalag VI-A.

The " maximum battleships ", also known as the " Tillman Battleships " were a series of World War I-era design studies for extremely large battleships, prepared in late 1916 and early 1917 to the order of Senator " Pitchfork " Benjamin Tillman by the Bureau of Construction and Repair ( C & R ) of the United States Navy.

Construction of the fourth canal ( officially known as the Welland Ship Canal ) began in 1914 but, because of delays due to World War I and other factors, it was not opened until 1932.

* Masuda, Hajimu, “ Rumors of War: Immigration Disputes and the Social Construction of American-Japanese Relations, 1905 – 1913 ,” Diplomatic History, 33 ( Jan. 2009 ), 1 – 37.

* Construction workers of Qiqihar, Heilongjiang Province, People's Republic of China accidentally dig out five Japanese mustard gas bombs from the Sino-Japanese War ( 1937-1945 ).

Construction was delayed due to the outbreak of the First Sino-Japanese War and Russo-Japanese War, but finally commenced in 1908.

* Construction of the Philharmonic Dining Rooms, an extravagant public house.

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

At his inauguration, O ' Dwyer celebrated to the song, " It's a Great Day for the Irish ," and addressed the 700 people gathered in Council Chambers at City Hall: " It is our high purpose to devote our whole time, our whole energy to do good work ..." He established the Office of City Construction Coordinator, appointing Robert Moses to the post, worked to have the permanent home of the United Nations located in Manhattan, presided over the first billion-dollar New York City budget, created a traffic department and raised the subway fare from five cents to ten cents.

Major employers in the county also include Kenyon College located in Gambier, Mount Vernon Nazarene University in Mount Vernon, and the Kokosing Construction Company near Fredericktown.

The building, which will be owned by the Conway Development Corporation and leased to HP, will be located in The Meadows Office and Technology Park, and is built by Nabholz Construction.

Two manufacturing businesses organized in the early 1900s, which are still in operation are the Van Cleve Construction Company, located near the Merryman Station for the manufacture of cement irrigation and storm pipe, and Waterman Industries.

It was located approximately where Schreier Construction is now.

Construction of Levittown began in February 1952, soon after completion of Levittown, New York, located on Long Island.

Notable businesses located in the Bloomsburg zip code include Mariano Construction Inc, R. R.

Construction is underway in Fall 2010 right across Lorton Road at U. S. 1 where a bank and pharmacy will be located.

However, in 1951, the Parliament of New South Wales passed the New South Wales University of Technology ( Construction ) Act 1951 ( NSW ) to provide funding and allow buildings to be erected at the Kensington site where the university is now located.

The Chauchat machine rifle project was initiated between 1903 and 1910 in a French Army weapon research facility located near Paris: the Atelier de Construction de Puteaux ( APX ).

Construction on the new, tower, which will be located between terminals 1 and 2, is planned to begin within September 2012 with completion by 2014.

Construction continued with the new state-of-the-art science complex for biology, chemistry and engineering that is located just to the southwest of Alexander Hall.

Construction began on the facility ( which would be located in the infield parking lot ) in 1996.

A paratransit base operated by Veolia Transportation for the authority's ACCESS service is located on Construction Circle in the city of Irvine, while a number of fixed routes are operated by MV Transportation, out of the Sand Canyon Yard, also in Irvine.

Construction of this mosque, located inside the Salemba campus, was started on August 16, 1966 based on a UI rector ’ s decree.

Construction of the Second Powerhouse, with its eight turbine generators located on the west bank of the river, began on August 4, 1974.

Construction was complicated by the high water table on the site, which is located on the Thames flood plain ; extensive deep-well dewatering was required to lower the water table before the enclosure to the excavations could be built.

Construction of the Xinglongshan Campus ( then under the name " New South Campus "), a large new campus located in a mountain valley to the south of Jinan dedicated to education of first-and second-year undergraduate students, began in 2003.

There are many businesses located near the station in Home Park Industrial Estate which is also home to the Construction and Engineering Centre of West Herts College.

King Khalid International Airport ( Arabic: مطار الملك خالد الدولي ) is located north of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, designed by the architectural firm HOK, and Arabian Bechtel Company Limited served as the Construction Manager on behalf of the Saudi government.

Construction is now underway along the Saint John Throughway on the " One Mile House " interchange. The name derives from the section of Saint John located along the railway 1 mile east of the former Union Station.

* School of Engineering and Construction Studies located in the South campus:

* Construction of a multi-storey car park located near Terminal 2 for completion in June 2011.

Construction works began at a site, where two old wells supplying Nessebar with water in ancient times and during the Middle Ages had been located.