21.   Combined, Cisco, Lucent and Nortel are constructing six buildings in the region and have other projects on the drawing board to accommodate several thousand additional workers.

22.   Currently, a third of that money is spent on finding ways to construct safer buildings, bridges and highways.

23.   Damage can also be reduced by the way the building is constructed, experts say.

24.   Early Anglo-Saxons buildings were constructed of wood.

25.   Every building is constructed with some disaster in mind.

26.   Feng shui is the art of living in harmony with the environment and governs everything from constructing buildings to setting marriage dates.

27.   For example, if buildings were constructed illegally, without access to the street, new investors may not get a local license to demolish and rebuild.

28.   Foreigners can get a license to construct a building within months.

29.   Georgia Tech students have been recruited by the Olympic Committee to help design and construct temporary buildings, including a swimming pool for water polo.

30.   Having access to information about constructing retrofitted buildings also is not a problem in India, he said.