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No sign of infrastructure gear change

Construction Law

Rarely has the need for speed in increasing investment in the UK’s infrastructure been more evident, but prevarication and delay seems to be the order of the day. The NIC’s Infrastructure Progress Review acknowledges that government has ambitious goals for infrastructure, but, in many areas, it is not delivering fast enough.

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The Transformative Power of Natural Building

Natural Building

This interest began her journey in bioconstruction, leading her to Plenitud PR and joining the team as an AmeriCorps VISTA in August 2021. The following is a recent blog post that Laura made at www.plenitudpr.org. The post The Transformative Power of Natural Building appeared first on Natural Building Blog.

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EPA Releases Draft National Recycling Strategy

Green Building Law Update

Environmental Protection Agency has released a draft National Recycling Strategy and is seeking public comment through December 4, 2020, with the goal of finalizing it in early 2021. Maybe not since Plato wrote about the value of reusing waste in the fourth century BC has recycling faced the challenges that we are seeing right now.

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New Proposed Cybersecurity Rules Mean Big Changes for Federal Contractors

Federal Construction Contracting Blog

On October 3, 2023, the FAR Council released two proposed rules for federal contractor cybersecurity requirements that relate to cyber threat and incident reporting and information sharing (case 2021-017 ) and standardizing cybersecurity requirements for unclassified federal information systems (case 2021-019 ).

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The City of Cape Town is Building Carbon Neutral Center

Natural Building

The center, due to be completed by June 2021, has a horse-shoe shape and faces the Helderberg mountain. The center will be fitted with a photovoltaic system to generate its own electricity and a water-recycling filtration system that will be linked to other existing infrastructure on the site. “We

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Construction pipeline promises much

Construction Law

Government’s latest National Construction & Infrastructure Pipeline detailing public sector procurement plans for the next ten years was released in September, representing the highest level of public sector infrastructure investment ever. Not much of how the skilled workforce will be provided has been said.

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Nominations Open: 40 Under 40 Construction Champions of 2023

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Better yet, subscribe to the Autodesk blog to get alerted about news and updates. 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 Your relatives, colleagues, and even yourself could be a part of this year’s list, so get those nominations in while you have time! A Look at Previous Winners Whoever makes it to this year's list will be in great company!