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Achieving Safer School Design with Secure Entry Vestibules

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In 2014, the Partner Alliance for Safer Schools (PASS) brought together several experts in the education community, law enforcement and security industry to develop a comprehensive guide to safer school design. A vestibule’s ability to provide such defense is twofold.

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Largest Owner of Buildings in North America Considering LEED v4

Green Building Law Update

” The Director of GSA’s Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings provides the findings of that review to the Secretary of Energy who, in consultation with the Department of Defense and GSA, formally identifies the system(s) to be used across the federal government. Such a review was undertaken in 2006 and 2012.

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Industry Focus: Global Aerospace Production Soars To New Heights

Business Facilities

From the July/August 2014 issue. According to Deloitte’s 2014 Global Aerospace and Defense Outlook , the commercial aerospace sector is expected to experience significant growth this year, driven by continued record-setting production levels at assembly facilities and throughout the aerospace supplier network. By Shana Daley.

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BUSINESS REPORT: AeroTurbine Opens HQ In Miramar As Florida Aerospace Grows

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

From the January/February 2014 issue. Officials from the company and its location advisory consultants worked with a number of city and state organizations to craft incentives that totaled $1,589,300. Southeast AeroTurbine BF-Jan/Feb-2014 Broward County Enterprise Florida Fort Lauderdale Prolexic Technologies' By Ed Felton.

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2022 NHQA Winners: 3 Home Builders Committed to Better Business and Operational Excellence

Pro Builder

They told me we were going to identify some problem areas and that we’d get defensive about them and try to hide them from the judges,” he says. of clients willing to refer 60 days after closing, as tracked by research and management consulting company Woodland, O’Brien & Scott. Photo: courtesy Hamlet Homes.

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Great Leap Forward

Business Facilities

tech sectors and even in our distracted and barely functioning federal government, which assumed that outdated security restrictions preventing China from purchasing obvious defense-related technology—think missile-guidance systems—also would deter the PRC from grabbing the crown jewels of our most-recent high-tech breakthroughs.

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Home Building by the Numbers

Pro Builder

As VP of The Shinn Group , a consulting practice based in Littleton, Colo., And, starting in 2014, there has been an erosion in production systems, particularly those related to processing variance purchase orders, start packages, and the use of master schedules , for which the analysis blames volume increases and leaner staffs.