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Emory University Student Center wins the top award in 2020 Building Team Awards

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In mid-2013, a university-commissioned feasibility study determined that Emory needed a new, larger student center to replace its original student union, Alumni Memorial University Center, built in 1950, and the 70,000-sf Dobbs University Center, which was added to the AMUC in 1986. .

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Coronavirus and travel: Can you get a refund and how do flight and travel credits and vouchers work?

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Any traveller holding a Qantas ticket for travel before 31 July 2020 is now entitled to a flight credit valid for travel before December 31, 2021. That includes flight credits issued on or after January 31, 2020, however flight credits must be requested by April 30, 2020. Airports around the world are mostly deserted.

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When office-to-residential conversion works

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Perkins Eastman received the Sinclaire commission after its developers toured WeWork: WeLive in nearby Crystal City, Va., That may be why Philadelphia converted more units from office to residential than any other major US city in 2020 and 2021, according to a report by RentCafé (followed by DC, with New York rounding out the top ten).

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State by State Incentives Guide

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Appalachian Regional Commission and Delta Regional Authority Grants: Federal-state partnerships that work with the people of 37 Appalachian counties in Alabama and the Mississippi Delta region’s twenty Alabama counties to create opportunities for self-sustaining economic development and improved quality of life.

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Cover Story: New Energy Powers Growth

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SGICC will use the bulk of the D2PA funds to provide grants to PA-based small companies to demonstrate the feasibility of emerging technologies, or seed funds to test and help launch ideas, and to assist in market acceptance and growth of shale energy focused products or services. The state also has no renewable portfolio standard.

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

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Applicants must meet the same qualification criteria as Advantage Arkansas and must be approved by the Arkansas Economic Development Commission. Energy Commission to develop and deploy alternative and renewable fuels and advanced transportation technologies to help attain the state’s climate change policies.

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COVER STORY: Global Biotech Report

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The state also is well under way with its Bio 2020 plan to invest at least $1.3 This includes matching Phase 1 federal awards up to $150,000 to support the exploration of the technical merit or feasibility of an idea or technology. However, industrial biotechnology (“white” biotechnology) is on the rise.

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