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Maryland Bans Polystyrene and Enacts 31 other New Environmental Laws

Green Building Law Update

Maryland has been described as having more pages of environmental statutes and regulations on a per capita basis than any other state. Savvy players in the environmental industrial complex will find business opportunities to lead and profit in environmental matters, including opportunities advantaged by these newly enacted laws.

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Why Projects Fail

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Real property owners, architects, engineers, and builders all would profit greatly from just applying “Change Management 101” effectively as a priority. Traditional construction project delivery is antiquated, outdated, antagonistic, and prone to failure. Significance of Project Management Performance Assessment (PMPA) Model?,

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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: Just Trust Me!

Rory Woolsey

This week I have chosen to change things up a little bit with an article I wrote back in 2004. Low Bid; Best Bid: Historically facility managers have had their hands tied with acquisition regulations that required the award of projects to the lowest bidding contractor. Construction Estimating One Bite at a Time. Just Trust Me!

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Ports And FTZs: Enter With Less Risk

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It is here that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) enforces the import and export laws and regulations of the U.S. Businesses in an FTZ may see a reduction in duties on labor, overhead and profit. Originally completed in 2004, the port spent more than two million dollars on a Programmatic EIR to address build out of the West Complex.

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FEATURE STORY: High-Tech Hubs Are Moving To Their Markets

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Google Fiber is another lifestyle asset to draw talented engineers and developers to our region,” said Ryan Weber, President of KCnext, a non-profit industry advocacy group for technology in the region. From 2004 to 2010, 189 new bio-related firms began operating in the Cleveland area. Rick Perry in a statement.

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Bury Your Head in the Sand and ESG will Go Away

Green Building Law Update

While the idea of ESG began in 2004 with a United Nations initiative to influence capital in non-Western markets, in 2021 the legal and political institutions in the United States and the EU are demanding those ideas be implemented by businesses posthaste.

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