Business Facilities

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Kansas will be site of new $450 million biodefense lab. The federal government has recommended a site in at Kansas State University in Manhattan, KS, for a new $450 million laboratory to study biological threats like anthrax and foot-and-mouth disease. Sam Brownback, R-Kan. NBAF would replace a Plum Island, N.Y.,

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

APRIL 5, 2016

billion in 2015, marking the ninth consecutive year capital investment in the region exceeded $1 billion, according to the Pittsburgh Regional Alliance’s (PRA) ninth annual Business Investment Scorecard. The report includes companies that announced plans in 2015 for new or increased business success in the 10-county region.

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Business Facilities

AUGUST 23, 2017

With more than 1,200 aerospace and defense companies in Arizona, it is easy to understand why PriceWaterhouseCoopers ranked Arizona number one for aerospace manufacturing attractiveness. Mesa has one of the nation’s most unique cybersecurity assets—Arizona Laboratory for Security and Defense Research (AZLabs). After leasing the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

test sites for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (a.k.a. At least 24 states have queued up to bid to have their air hubs designated as UAV test sites in a program which potentially may generate billions in new revenue for the winners. test sites for UAVs. The competition is heating up among states to host new U.S. within five years.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

OCTOBER 1, 2013

The Aerospace/Defense industry reported its third consecutive year of record revenue and profit last year. The uptick came on the strength of a surging commercial aviation market that more than offset a soft defense performance. For 2012, the top 100 Aero/Defense companies reported a record-setting $695 billion in revenue and $59.8

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Job Order Contracting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Department of Defense: West Point Academy in 1985, and United States Air Force bases in 1986. Weekly Meetings and Site Visits Are an Important Part of Your Partnering Effort. is intended to include contractor overhead, profit and any items that reflect the contractor and/or site and/or requirements.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

MARCH 20, 2014

The CDC expansion is scheduled for completion in mid-2015. The post Boeing Begins Expansion Of 737 Commercial Delivery Center In Seattle appeared first on Business Facilities (BF) | The Source for Corporate Site Selectors. Far West Washington Workforce Training/Skilled Workforce Blog-March-2014 Boeing King County Seattle'

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Job Order Contracting

JULY 24, 2023

private interest sued the United States as a “bid protest to challenge the decision of the Department of Defense (“DOD”) to standardize its facility condition assessment needs through the Sustainment Management System (“SMS”)”2 2014: NNSA implements BUILDER with two pilots (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Pantex Plant) 1 S.

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Work Gearz

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

One of the more important aspects of good safety at a construction site is visibility, so more and more construction employers are requiring reflective details on protective gear. To find the best safety vest for construction workers we went right to the source, the construction site. This is what we found.

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Business Facilities

JANUARY 8, 2014

test sites that will usher in the widespread deployment of unmanned aircraft into U.S. According to FAA Administrator Michael Huerta, these “strategically located” sites will work with the agency to develop standardized procedures for the use of drones over the U.S.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

JUNE 29, 2016

In 2015, 26 academy programs were held at 17 college and university campuses in OK. The governor also told us that OK’s abundance of water resources is making the state increasingly attractive to site selection professionals who are moving availability of water to the top of their priority lists. A 50-YEAR PLAN FOR FRESH WATER.

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Business Facilities

DECEMBER 9, 2015

From the September/October 2015 Issue. Louisiana’s historic investment and job levels coincide with an intelligent response to contemporary site selection needs, with a special emphasis on: Integrated site and workforce solutions. By the BF Staff. Increased cultivation of international investments. Army’s key training posts.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

MAY 13, 2016

The county was the second in Missouri and the nation to achieve maintained status in the Certified Work Ready Community (CWRC) program in 2015, an initiative that aligns workforce training programs to meet the needs of the business community. LMI Aerospace also benefits from Franklin County’s highly-skilled workforce.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

MARCH 19, 2013

Integration is scheduled to take place in 2015. billion in impact between 2015 and 2025. Future events – such as the establishment of FAA Test Sites – will ultimately determine where many of these new jobs will flow. national airspace system (NAS).

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

MARCH 2, 2013

BF: The Von Braun Center for Science and Innovation received an SBA grant in 2010 to create the Huntsville Advanced Defense Technology Cluster, aimed at high-tech entrepreneurs. GC: Today we are handling post-panamax ships of the same size that will be transiting the expanded Panama Canal beginning in 2015 every week.

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Green Building Law Update

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Ignorance is not a defense. And we have advised companies seeking to produce their annual statements required by the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015. There is no morally defensible reason for not doing everything in our power to end modern slavery and human trafficing. It is no longer acceptable to look the other way.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

APRIL 8, 2016

Department of Homeland Security is constructing its new National Bio and Agro Defense Facility in Manhattan, a $1.25 In 2015, Dairy Farmers of America announced the relocation of its corporate headquarters to Kansas and also began construction of a $235 million milk powder plant that will process four million pounds of milk per day.

Kansas 40

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

JULY 23, 2013

The state is providing $120 million in incentives for upfront expansion costs such as utilities and site preparation. s intention to create 2,600 jobs in Charlotte and Cary by the end of 2015. In 2012, CSX Transportation named Edgecombe County’s Kingsboro “mega site” one of its “CSX Select Sites.”

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

JUNE 13, 2016

In late 2015, the company raised $3 million in a Series A round led by Venture Investors, including investment from Huron River Ventures, Amherst Fund, and the Michigan Angel Fund, a joint fund launched by MEDC and Ann Arbor SPARK. Drone Technology Improves Infrastructure Inspections. DannyEllisSkySpecs.

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Business Facilities

OCTOBER 12, 2017

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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Construction Specifier

OCTOBER 12, 2021

In addition, GBI has a federal compliance program, Guiding Principles for New Construction & Modernization that is used by various Federal Agencies and Departments, including the Veterans Administration (VA) and the Department of Defense (DoD).

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

APRIL 7, 2014

This Contributed Column is brought to you by RealStreet 2015 , a new event sponsored by Today’s Facility Manager and Business Facilities magazines. While defensive play is always necessary, firms have adopted an aggressive offense so they can score new customers as well as retain current customers. Posted by Heidi Schwartz.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

JUNE 6, 2014

President Obama has awarded Chicago a $70 million grant from the Department of Defense to build a $320-million Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute. The Digital Lab will apply computing technologies to address the manufacturing challenges faced by the Department of Defense.

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Building Information Management

OCTOBER 26, 2015

CSI introduced an expanded version, the MasterFormat™, in 2004 that includes 50 divisions of work covering civil site and infrastructure work as well as process equipment—a significant increase from the previous 16 divisions covering building construction that had been in use for years. 31–32, 1972. Capital Program Costs, 2009.

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Building Information Management

JULY 16, 2015

While having its roots in United States Department of Defense; non-DoD Federal Government, State/County/Local Government, Education, Healthcare, Transportation, and Utilities are now included as JOC users and proponents. References: A Path Toward Construction Productivity – Academia.edu, July 2015.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

AUGUST 5, 2013

The riverfront complex is being built on the old Advocate newspaper site bordered by Main, North, Lafayette Street and River Road. The office building is scheduled for completion by spring 2015 with the residential complex following in the summer. Total investment for the combined development is estimated to be $55 million.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

AUGUST 29, 2013

Sustainable materials will be used in the National Support Center facilities, and the project is designed to incorporate energy-efficient heating and cooling systems and on-site renewable energy sources. The new SSA Data Center, situated atop a pastoral landscape, will blend seamlessly into the surrounding site.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

MARCH 27, 2014

Procurements for 2014 electric capacity are 300 MW wind, 140 MW solar, 50 MW bioenergy and 50 MW hydro; 2015 procurements are identical except a slight narrowing of hydro to 45 MW. The post BUSINESS REPORT: Ontario Unveils Plans To Achieve An Energy Balance appeared first on Business Facilities (BF) | The Source for Corporate Site Selectors.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

APRIL 16, 2013

based production facility—which will build A320 Family jetliners at the Brookley Aeroplex in Mobile, Alabama, beginning in 2015—will produce between 40 and 50 aircraft annually by 2018. They will come in and put a training facility on-site to train the workers,” said Bentley. “We “Mercedes is a great cheerleader for Alabama.”.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

MARCH 28, 2014

Our team has the ability to provide current market and demographic packages to support site selection and an array of incentives to ensure that Stafford will be a locality considered by a wide range of business sectors.”. The tenant mix includes a mixture of national and international high-tech and defense related businesses.

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CivilJungle

JANUARY 21, 2022

Also, Read: Concrete Construction Tools for Construction Sites. Also, Read: Hand Level Surveying | What Is Site Level | How to Use a Hand Level | Estimating Distance with a Sight Level. Carris pipes and tubes manufacture aquatech water storage tanks, cold boxes, defense drop boxes, garbage bins, and a host of custom-molded artifacts.

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Green Building Law Update

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

The BRE Ethical Labour Sourcing Standard can be seen as responding to Great Britain’s Modern Slavery Act 2015 , which sets a basic benchmark for ethical business practice in the sourcing of labour and contains significant measures aimed at preventing forced labour and human trafficking.

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Green Building Law Update

JANUARY 9, 2014

will be republished in 2014 for adoption in the IgCC 2015. From site location to energy use to recycling, this standard establishes how to build a green building. ASHRAE standard 189.1 You can go online today and participate in meetings, public reviews, and more. ASHRAE Standard 90.1 ASHRAE Standard 189.1

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Job Order Contracting

MARCH 29, 2017

Revised September 23, 2015). Use of EPA under regional or multi-site JOCs with multiple coefficients is at the discretion of the contracting officer on a case-by-case basis but should be declared in the affected solicitations. for acquisitions by nondefense agencies on behalf of the Department of Defense. AFARS – PART 5117.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

MAY 5, 2016

A fter several years of job losses, aerospace and defense sector employment is expected to grow in 2016 by more than 39,000 jobs in the U.S., Aerospace & Defense Labor Market Study. percent, of which about 185,000 jobs were lost in the defense subsector. Aerospace and defense sector companies paid $7.7

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Industrial Airports Louisiana Florida 40

Business Facilities

AUGUST 1, 2014

Apple’s selection of Austin as the site for its new $304-million Operations Center was the Bronze Award winner in Business Facilities ’ 2012 Economic Development Deal of the Year competition. The riverfront complex is being built on the old Advocate newspaper site. At year-end 2012, 190,900 jobs had been added with wages totaling $9.9

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Work Gearz

MAY 6, 2021

While safety glasses may be a standard PPE requirement in numerous work environments from construction sites to industrial complexes to hospitals and health organizations, they are incredibly useful in any number of situations for DIY hobbyists or just for mowing the lawn or even cleaning a ceiling fan or lamp. DUST DEFENSE.

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