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Renewable Energy: The Power Of Change

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From the July/August 2021 Issue. A ccording to the International Energy Agency (IEA), based on current policy settings and economic trends, electricity generation from renewables, including hydropower, wind and solar PV, is on track to grow by 8 percent in 2021 and by more than 6 percent in 2022. By Dominique Cantelme.

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Business Facilities’ 15th Annual Rankings: State Rankings Report

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Set to open in late 2021, the 357,000-square-foot technology center will be located in a new 23-story tower, branded with Lowe’s, in the bustling neighborhood immediately south of uptown Charlotte. OPPORTUNITY ZONES ARE HERE. The authors of the Opportunity Zones section of the tax reform bill, Sen. Lowe’s Companies Inc.

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DCA3: Designing fire-rated I-joist assemblies

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Some of the largest I-joist manufacturers have brought products to market that do not comply with DCA3, backed instead by privately commissioned fire test reports based on proprietary assemblies. The makers of these joists are major players and cannot simply be excluded from an open specification or generic assembly.

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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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Qantas, for example, has now extended its flight credits to December 31, 2021. 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. ” What does the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission say?

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Maryland Bans Polystyrene and Enacts 31 other New Environmental Laws

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Additionally, by October 1, 2021, the owner of a building that has at least 150,000 square feet of office space must provide recycling receptacles for the collection of recyclable materials and for the removal of specified materials deposited into the recycling receptacles so that the materials can be further recycled. Oil Cleanup .

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Workforce Training: Engineering A Skilled Workforce

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million and help create more than 500 secondary jobs across Botetourt and the entire Roanoke region by 2021. Culpeper’s five strategically located Tech Zones provide incentives to qualified technology zone businesses. Source: Texas Workforce Commission). 220 in Daleville. The Legislature has allocated $48.5

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When office-to-residential conversion works

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Zoned business districts cease to function after 6 p.m.” Eliminating single-use zoning so people can live throughout the city, where all of its districts thrive at all times, is a “net positive,” he says. Perkins Eastman received the Sinclaire commission after its developers toured WeWork: WeLive in nearby Crystal City, Va.,