* August 13 – Construction of the Berlin Wall begins, restricting movement between East Berlin and West Berlin and forming a clear boundary between West Germany and East Germany, Western Europe and Eastern Europe.

Timothy V. Waters argues in " On the Legal Construction of Ethnic Cleansing " that the expulsions of the ethnic German population east of the Oder-Neisse line the Sudetenland and elsewhere in Eastern Europe without legal redress ( cf.

Construction on the Eastern Route officially began on December 27, 2002, and water is supposed to reach Tianjin by 2012.

Included in the expansion were 149 Special Forces on temporary duty, and 103 Filipino military veterans working for a newly formed front company named Eastern Construction Company in Laos.

Construction in Playa del Rey surged in 1928 with the development of the Del Rey Hills neighborhood in the Eastern part of the community ( to the East of Pershing Drive ), and the move of Loyola University ( now Loyola Marymount University ) to the adjacent community of Westchester.

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Construction commenced in 1948 but the Eastern Suburbs line was not finished until 1979.

In 1916, a plan for the city railways, and an Eastern Suburbs extension was drawn up by the Chief Engineer of the Melbourne Railway Construction, Dr J. J. C. Bradfield.

Construction of the Eastern Distributor also entailed the realignment of traffic flow in the area.

Headquarters Southern Area, Southern Area Medical Headquarters, Southern Area Barrack Stores, and the Southern Area and South Eastern Area Headquarters of the Air Construction Service moved into Hillingdon House in October 1919.

Construction of the Eastern Suburbs Railway generally proceeding from the Erskineville tunnel portals to Bondi Junction.

* August 28 – Construction begins on the Chinese Eastern and South Manchurian lines of the Trans-Siberian Railway.

After withdrawal the boiler was sold to the Telegraph Construction Company who used it as a stationary boiler on board the SS Great Eastern.

Construction began in 1837, and the Eastern Division to the Connecticut River in Springfield opened on October 1, 1839.

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He was first assigned to work jointly with the Washington Branch of Still and Motion Pictures under Ralph Anderson, chief of the branch, and with HABS, Historic Structures at the NPS Eastern Office of Design and Construction in Philadelphia.

Construction of the Gyeongbu Expressway was completed and linked Seoul to the nation's southeastern region and the port cities of Incheon and Busan.

Construction of the Gyeongbu Expressway, which connects the two major cities of Seoul and Busan, was completed on 7 July 1970.

The AMBO I Construction firm moved into the area in 1956, building homes in what is now known as the Garden Section, near the Calumet Expressway and just south of Sauk Trail.

The extension will be built through a P10-billion build-operate-transfer agreement with Manila Toll Expressway Systems Inc., a company owned 40 percent by Philippine National Construction Corp.

The extension will decongest Andaya Highway and Pan-Philippine Highway, cut travel time from Manila to Naga by 2-3 hours, to Legazpi by 4-5 hours and to Matnog by 6 hours and soon be built by Manila Toll Expressway Systems Inc., a company owned 40 percent by Philippine National Construction Corp.

Construction started in 2004 on a westerly extension of Thunder Bay's Harbour Expressway, from the Thunder Bay Expressway to Vibert Road, intended to serve as a new alignment for Highways 11 and 17.

Construction on the first expressway, the Pan Island Expressway, started in 1966.

Construction started in 2001 and a 3 km section linking the Pan Island Expressway and East Coast Parkway was opened in late 2007.

Construction of the 11th expressway, the North – South Expressway, was announced on 30 January 2008.

Construction on the Baltimore – Harrisburg Expressway got underway in 1948 between Timonium and Hunt Valley.

According to the National Expressway Construction Association, 4. 41 million vehicles use the expressways daily, driving an average of 43. 7 km.

Construction of the network started with what was then known as the Lakeshore Expressway, which would connect the QEW from its terminus at the Humber River with the downtown core.

Construction of the Metropolitan Expressway was completed in 1959.

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Construction of the Pontchartrain Expressway began in the 1950s.

Construction began in Westchester County in 1907, making it the earliest limited-access automobile highway to start construction.

Construction on a new limited-access highway through the town of Colonie between I-87 and I-787 began in the early 1980s.

Construction on a limited-access highway between Wayland and Dansville began.

Construction on the next segment, a limited-access extension south to Empire Boulevard ( U. S. Route 104 or US 104 ), began in the mid-1950s.

Construction of " Phase 1 " of the four-lane, limited-access Quonset Freeway began in 2000 with excavation of the route and right-of-way acquisition ; the project required the demolition of 13 structures, five commercial and eight residential.

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* 1806 – Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway.

The first highway in Slovenia, the A1 motorway connecting Vrhnika and Postojna, was opened in 1972, but the construction was really speed up in 1994, when the National Assembly enacted the first National Motorway Construction Programme.

* March 29 – Construction is authorized of the National Road ( the first United States federal highway ).

Construction began on a transcontinental highway across the Amazon basin, aimed to encourage migration to the Amazon and to open up the region to more trade.

Construction of the highway in Corpus Christi and Nueces County continued north over the Nueces River into San Patrico County.

Construction of the new highway continued northward, with a portion of the highway still unconstructed by June 1930, a portion near the Adams train station and part of Livingston Avenue still was not constructed to full state standards.

Construction of canals in more modern times connected the Ems to other waterways, opening it as a highway of industrial transportation.

As of January 2011 Construction has begun on a new four lane highway connecting the Lake of the Ozarks Community Bridge to Highway 54.

In 1965, Hyundai Construction begins its first overseas venture, a highway project in Thailand.

Construction of a pedestrian bridge over the highway to link Claymore and Woodbine is also underway.

Construction of the highway north from Taholah to U. S. Highway 101 was halted in the late 1960s.

Construction of a two-lane concrete highway began in front of the historic Uncle Tom's Cabin, an inn in San Bruno that was built in 1849 and demolished exactly 100 years later.

Construction was completed in the Summer of 2006, with the highway fully widened and drainage projects along the route completed.

Construction also required replacement of a stretch of highway and the closure of the Otago Central Railway beyond Clyde, though materials for the dam would provide significant traffic for the rest of the line which was experiencing a drop in freight tonnage.

Construction of a highway bridge across the Volga was completed in July of the same year.

Construction of Canada's first four lane controlled access superhighway, the Toronto to Niagara Falls Queen Elizabeth Way, is the most lasting achievement of the highway program.

Construction on the highway began in the mid-1950s and was completed by 1958, at which time US 4 was rerouted to follow the riverside roadway.

Construction on the first modern national highway, National Highway 1 began in 1971.

Construction of the highway began in 1947 and was completed in 1950.

Construction on the highway began in 1997 and was completed in 2004, four years ahead of schedule.

Construction of the Sir Solomon Hochoy Highway extended the highway south to San Fernando.