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The Sky’s The Limit In The Lone Star State

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Low-cost land, a skilled workforce and “Restrained” government—with low taxes and minimal regulation—yield unrestrained growth in Texas. Read: The Sky’s The Limit In The Lone Star State.

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The Drone Age

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” In other words, the test sites will help FAA create federal regulations that will open the skies to a commercial drone industry that has the potential to become a growth sector worth hundreds of billions of dollars in coming years. Should commercial drone flights be permitted before defenses against rogue drones are perfected?

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New Mexico Governor’s Report: A Catalyst For High-Tech Growth

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From the September/October 2017 Issue. We told them we were eliminating regulations that didn’t make sense.”. Martinez recently joined local business leaders to announce that JTIP created more than 2,000 jobs in 2017. By Jack Rogers. But we told them all about our different reforms and we showed them our portfolio.

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Apply to be a Member of the ASHRAE Committee for Standard 189.1

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The deadline to make application for Project Committee membership is March 15, 2017. Department of Defense, the largest owner of buildings in North America, that is also the owner or more green building and more LEED certified building than anyone else, uses a variant of ASHRAE 189.1-2009. Significantly, the U.S. ASHRAE 189.1

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Net Zero Pledges by Businesses are Fraught with Risk

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In 2017 Sweden became the first nation to enshrine a ‘net zero by 2045’ target into law, but the law actually only requires 5 year reports on progress. Done correctly our work for a client is also a defense of capitalism by limiting the need for future government regulation.

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Centers of Technology: The Future Is Now

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From the September / October 2017 Issue. DMDII is one of nine institutes within the Manufacturing USA network, with six more planned by the end of 2017. In May 2017, the state launched an “Innovation Campus” that aims to accelerate the commercialization of research and position Rhode Island as a center of high value employment.

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Advanced Manufacturing: Manufacturing Gets Smarter, Faster

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From the September/October 2017 Issue. Here’s a peek at what’s driving change in 2017: The factory of the future: Tesla’s “Gigafactory,” may represent not just what future factories look like, but how companies approach their entire manufacturing process. Its aluminum will supply the automotive, aerospace and defense industries.