Construction of the airport was ordered by the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, in 1959.

Construction on a replacement airport 45 km inland from Léopold Sédar Senghor has begun.

Construction of the new airport, however, did not begin until 1991.

Construction of the new airport was only part of the Airport Core Programme, which also involved construction of new road and rail links to the airport, with associated bridges and tunnels, and major land reclamation projects on both Hong Kong Island and in Kowloon.

Construction of the new airport was voted as one of the Top 10 Construction Achievements of the 20th Century at the ConExpo conference in 1999.

Construction of a new landside terminal designed by Bickel-Gibson Associated Architects Inc. began, costing $ 35 million, and it made the airport able to handle nearly 2 million passengers in 1985.

The new airport opened ( with Terminal 1 ) on February 26, 1979, as part of the Ten Major Construction Projects pursued by the government in the 1970s.

Construction of the new airport was completed in 2010, with Durban International Airport handling its final flight on 30 April 2010 and all flights transferring to King Shaka International Airport in a single, overnight move.

Construction of the terminal buildings finished in 1966, and the airport was named after Ben Schoeman, the minister of transport at the time.

" Construction started in June 2006 ; the intention is for the first phase – which is supposed to make the airport an IATA category C airport – to be completed by 2007.

Construction of the airport began in April 1940 as a Works Project Administration project.

Construction of the airport started in 1965, in order for the city to accommodate a more cosmopolitan populace which was introduced with the sizable naval bases in the region.

Military Construction ( MILCON ) funds provided for the establishment of Jacksonville Air National Guard Base in the southwest quadrant of the airport and placement of USAF-style emergency arresting gear on the JAX runways.

Construction of the new runway resulted in April 2011 in the permanent closure of Barlow Trail and McCall Way's connections between Airport Road and McKnight Boulevard to the south ; road access to the rest of Calgary now requires motorists to drive north of the airport ( away from downtown ) on Barlow and access either Deerfoot Trail via Airport Trail or 36 Street or Metis Trail via Country Hills Boulevard.

Construction of the new airport began in 1937.

Construction of the airport in the late 1930s was stopped and started and its final construction only went ahead after the death of the Toronto mayor who had opposed its construction.

Construction is expected to be completed in 2015 and will double the capacity of the airport.

Construction never started on the airport, and the government has now sold much of its holdings for housing, making the site even more unsuitable for an airport.

Construction of the airport began in 1936 and it was opened in 1938, with its first landing on January 11 of that year, by Captain Douglas Fraser flying a Fox Moth of Imperial Airways.

Construction of a new airport on Mount Ettrick in Maine, New York began in 1945, and concluded in 1951 when the airport was opened.

According to Mark Bollman, a mathematics and calculator historian and associate professor of mathematics at Albion College, the " Construction Master is the first in a long and profitable line of CI construction calculators " which carried them through the 1980s, 1990s, and to the present.

Construction crews also extended and upgraded the terminal building at Kumasi.

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

Construction of major railways connecting the larger cities and towns began in the 1830s but only gained momentum at the very end of the first Industrial Revolution.

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

In 1615 he entered the service of Ogasawara Tadanao ( 小笠原忠直 ) of Harima Province, at Ogasawara's invitation, as a " Construction Supervisor ," after previously gaining skills in craft.

* 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.

* 1648 – Construction of the Red Fort at Delhi is completed.

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

* Construction at Potsdamer Platz

Construction costs totaled approximately US $ 150 million at the time, which would be equivalent to roughly US $ 950 million in 2005.

Construction began on Columbia in 1975 at Rockwell International's ( formerly North American Aviation / North American Rockwell, now Boeing North America ) principal assembly facility in Palmdale, California, a suburb of Los Angeles.

The armored cables were manufactured in southeast London at a factory in Erith, Kent, owned by Submarine Cables Ltd. ( owned jointly by Siemens Brothers & Company, Ltd, and The Telegraph Construction & Maintenance Company, Ltd ).

The yard at Barrow became the " Naval Construction Yard ".

In 1901 the Royal Navy's first submarine, Holland 1, was launched at the Naval Construction Yard.

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.

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

* January 24 – Construction of Henry VII's Chapel at Westminster Abbey begins in the perpendicular style, the final stage of English gothic art.

* Construction at Great Zimbabwe begins ( approximate date ).

* 3250 – 3000 BC — Construction of three megalithic temples at Tarxien, Malta.

* Construction on the Liaodi Pagoda in Hebei is complete, the tallest pagoda in Chinese history standing at a height of 84 m ( 275 ft ) tall.

Construction is budgeted at $ 200 million, of which $ 50 million has been allocated from the State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan ( SOFAZ ).

* Construction of the Duomo at Pisa in Tuscany begins.

Construction began in 1914 under the leadership of Charles Sumner Frost and took two years, at a total cost of $ 4. 5 million.