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Construction Jobsite Safety: Strategies and Resources for Worker Well-Being

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billion in workforce education. More than half of that spending (56%) went toward safety education, a sign that construction remains a potentially dangerous job. Last year, members of Associated Builders and Contractors , a national trade association representing the nonunion construction industry, invested $1.6

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Specifications for design-build projects

Construction Specifier

The design builder may be a single organization with inhouse design and construction expertise and licensure or, more commonly, it is either a contractor or design professional teaming with one or more partners via subcontracts (Figure 2). DBIA documents are used in both vertical construction and horizontal (infrastructure) work.

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FAQ's About Outsourced Contractors Bookkeeping Services

Contractor Bookkeeping

A lot of contractors would like to subcontract out their bookkeeping services and the two main reasons they don''t is fear of losing control and cost. It only makes sense to subcontract it out to professional construction accountants who have done it thousands of time and have a process in place to see to it that it gets done right.

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State by State Incentives Guide

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ALABAMA - updated for 2014. Property Tax Abatements: The Tax Incentive Reform Act of 1992 (TIRA) allows qualified industries to receive abatements of non-educational property taxes for new businesses locating to Alabama and for expansions of existing facilities in Alabama. Inventory is exempt from property tax.

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Feature Story: 2016 Economic Development Awards

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Eleven different Pennsylvania-based construction companies already have been subcontracted to do much of the work, and many more opportunities will be made available as the project goes forward. billion in 2014, will grow to $11 billion in 2023. Custom training at a NM public educational institution may also be covered.

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

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BROWNFIELD DEVELOPMENT TAX ABATEMENTS: Gives cities and counties the ability to abate the following: Non-educational city and county sales & use taxes; Non-educational state, city and county property taxes—up to 20 years; Mortgage and recording taxes. percent, between 2014 and 2017. percent down to 4.9

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