shovel-ready

(of a construction project) prepared for the building stage to begin

Examples

1. The result: delay of critical infrastructure projects, including President Obama's shovel-ready infrastructure proposals in the 2009 stimulus.

2. And the problem with infrastructure projects generally is that very few are actually, as we learned, shovel-ready.

3. That is closer than almost anything else to being shovel-ready.

4. Yes, we will be supporting hundreds of billions of dollars of shovel-ready projects, but we're also interested in shovel-worthy projects, because this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to shape America's infrastructure future, to make sure we're competing and winning, when other countries are doing so much more than we are.