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BIM, Value Management, Life-cycle Cost Management

Building Information Management

Elsewhere, it is defined as the total cost of project measured over a period of financial interest of the clients (Flanagan and Jewell, 2005). LCC enables a practical economic comparison of the alternatives, in terms of both the present and future costs. The work activities are strategically carried out in the job plan.

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FEATURE STORY: Talking The Talk And Backing It Up With Results

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

Perry bragging rights is the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (TETF), a $200-million initiative created by the TX Legislature in 2005 (it has been reauthorized every year since). Perry has supported pilot projects to assess the feasibility of large-scale seawater desalination plants on the Texas Gulf Coast.

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Our 2022 Builder of the Year, Van Metre Homes, Is Wired for Change

Pro Builder

or its design center, model homes, or 80,000-square-foot component manufacturing facility, and you’ll sense something very different about this builder. It’s just a matter of getting it to scale and making it economically feasible.”. Rich Binsacca, Editorial Director. Walk into Van Metre Homes’ offices in Ashburn, Va.,

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State by State Incentives Guide

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Energy Innovations Small Grant (EISG) Program: Provides up to $95,000 for hardware projects and $50,000 for modeling projects to small businesses, non-profits, individuals and academic institutions to conduct research that establishes the feasibility of new, innovative energy concepts. This program is a component of the AB118 program.

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

SINGLE FACTOR APPORTIONMENT: 2005, Georgia became the first state in the Southeast to adopt a “Single Factor Gross Receipts” apportionment formula. Hawaii-based companies that receive Phase I feasibility study SBIR awards can apply for funds from HTDC’s Hawaii SBIR Matching Grant program.

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Cover Story: New Energy Powers Growth

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SGICC will use the bulk of the D2PA funds to provide grants to PA-based small companies to demonstrate the feasibility of emerging technologies, or seed funds to test and help launch ideas, and to assist in market acceptance and growth of shale energy focused products or services. Since 2010, the growth of the U.S.

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COVER STORY: Global Biotech Report

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60 institutions and companies have joined forces to develop computer models by which personalized “virtual patients” will be derived from the molecular, physiological, anatomic and environmental data of every individual patient. Since 2005, the regional government of Wallonia supports biotechnologies with the so-called “Marshall Plan.”

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