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Ports & FTZs: The Value of Entry

Business Facilities

By the BF Staff From the September/October 2018 Issue U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) provides security and facilitation operations at 328 ports of entry throughout the country, enforcing U.S. laws and regulations with more than 60,000 employees. Read: Ports & FTZs: The Value of Entry at BusinessFacilities.com.

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Housing Supply Falls to New Low While Prices Hit New High

Pro Builder

This price rate growth is on par with levels seen in 2016 and 2018, according to Redfin. It may seem like the Twilight Zone for the housing market to be performing better than ever while the economy is in the tank, but it goes to show that we are in truly unprecedented times. In July, median home prices increased by 8.2%

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Business Facilities’ 15th Annual Rankings: State Rankings Report

Business Facilities

4 in Best Business Climate, Texas—all have been perennial contenders for BF’s top honor, the State of the Year Award: Texas and Tennessee each have won the award three times since it was created in 2007; Virginia was the 2018 SOTY; Alabama won BF’s top award in 2017. “An military and business—will rule the cyber sector tomorrow.

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Expanding the exterior footprint

Construction Specifier

While cities occupy just three percent of global land area, by 2050 they will be home to two-thirds of the world’s inhabitants according to Gensler’s, 75 percent of the world’s population will live in cities, according to Gensler’s Aleksander Sasha Zeljic in a June 2018 interview with Architectural Products magazine. for Fast Company.

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8 strategies for multifamily passive house design projects

BD+C

Back in 2018, our client saw passive house design strategies as the ideal way to achieve their own long-term goals for resiliency, energy efficiency, and high-quality building standards. Thus, site selection, site orientation, climate zone, and building orientation are key on passive house projects.

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OSHA Top 10 Series: Fall Protection Applications and Innovative Technology

Safety Services Company

As part of our continued focus on OSHA’s Top Ten most frequently cited violations to its standards, in this article we will focus specifically on Fall Protection as it is the number one most commonly cited standard for 2018. Fall Restraint Systems secure workers in order to avoid the interaction of the worker and the fall hazard.

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OSHA Top 10 Series: Fall Protection Applications and Innovative Technology

Safety Services Company

As part of our continued focus on OSHA’s Top Ten most frequently cited violations to its standards, in this article we will focus specifically on Fall Protection as it is the number one most commonly cited standard for 2018. Fall Restraint systems secure workers in order to avoid the interaction of the worker and the fall hazard.

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