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Transforming shopping malls into 21st century neighborhoods

BD+C

Rarely are mall properties owned by a singular entity and they come with handfuls of long-term lease agreements with retailers. Still, catalysts can also be public institutions such as community college facilities or hospitals and healthcare facilities to support greater social infrastructure.

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BUSINESS REPORT: Texas – Innovation Moves Front And Center In Austin

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

Technology shares the spotlight with music and film at the annual South by Southwest festival in Austin, TX. Technology innovation is happening across the country, but there is no better place to witness the revolution other than Austin, TX, home to a rapidly expanding technology industry. By Jenny Vickers. TEXAS FAST FACTS.

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You Need to Review a SITES Scorecard, Now

Green Building Law Update

The well regarded material on which the SITES v2 rating system (there actually was no version 1, but there was a multi-year pilot) is based was developed by the American Society of Landscape Architects, The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at The University of Texas at Austin, and the United States Botanic Garden.

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You Need to Review a SITES Scorecard, Now

Green Building Law Update

The well regarded material on which the SITES v2 rating system (there actually was no version 1, but there was a multi-year pilot) is based was developed by the American Society of Landscape Architects, The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at The University of Texas at Austin, and the United States Botanic Garden.

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How to Get Paid on Texas Public Projects

Levelset

A huge focus point of the Biden administration’s Build Back Better plan, the federal government will be doling out over a trillion dollars in funding for public infrastructure construction projects over the course of the next decade — and a lot of that funding is going to go directly to individual states.

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Characteristics of Strategic Collaboration and Efficient Construction Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

success through an incentive agreement: lessons learned from an underground railway. Infrastructure of Partnering for Construction. University of Texas at Austin, August 1989. Texas at Austin, July 1991. Texas at Austin, July 1991. Empirical analysis of traditional contracting and relationship agreements for.

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities – Metro And Global Rankings

Business Facilities

Austin, TX: On Top, Still Rising. For the past couple of years, Austin, TX and Baton Rouge, LA have been duking it out for the top ranking in our flagship metro Economic Growth Potential category. Austin is now one of the nation’s top emerging high-tech cities, with more than 120,000 people employed by around 4,400 technology firms.

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