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Dennis Calvert, the right architect for Design-Build

The Korte Company

Design-Build was not always accepted in the industry. So when he encountered Ralph Korte’s vision of Design-Build in action, he saw the industry’s future. . He did return every summer to work on a permit as a union carpenter with his father. There Dennis learned about “on-site design” from Jack Goldman.

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“Mitbestimmung” in Tennessee

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

A showdown between the United Auto Workers and Volkswagen at VW’s $1-billion assembly plant in Chattanooga, TN could have profound implications for the future of the union, the plant and labor relations in the U.S. to offer a compromise to the autoworkers union. Now, buoyed by a brisk recovery in the U.S.

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Green Building Data Risk as an Opportunity

Green Building Law Update

And there is some form of privacy law in at least 48 states (but not Alabama and South Dakota), including by way of example the California’s groundbreaking 2003 Data Security Breach Reporting Law , but most of those are reactive, that is most laws in the U.S. establish requirements for a business after a data breach.

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Pulse: 07/23/2012

ENR Construction

Nebraska The SAC Federal Credit Union has selected Leo A Daly to provide design and engineering services for its new headquarters campus in Papillion. SAC Federal Credit Union, 11515 S. Alabama 8/2 The University of Alabama is seeking bidders to build the Presidential II Student Housing project in Tuscaloosa.

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COVER STORY: 2013 Business Facilities Rankings Report – Metro And Global Rankings

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

Louisiana will provide $14 million in funding over 10 years for expanded higher-education programs designed primarily to increase the number of annual computer science graduates. A supplier network already is queuing up to put down roots in Alabama to service Airbus. Morris Lessmore.

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities – Metro And Global Rankings

Business Facilities

Semiconductor companies in Austin include chip designers Intel, IBM, and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and chip manufacturers Freescale Semiconductor, Samsung and Spansion. Services offered to these developing companies include work space and access to experienced mentors, programming and design. Together, they employ thousands.

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Supply Chain Reaction

Business Facilities

Most of America’s unions want major revisions, but their clout in Washington is a shadow of what it was in 1993; as right-to-work laws have been adopted by a majority of U.S. states, union membership rolls have cratered]. ” Sounds about right to us. Since the temps are pushing 90 F.