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East vs. West

Business Facilities

It’ll enable huge post-Panamax container vessels to travel directly to Atlantic and Gulf ports instead of offloading their cargo on the West Coast and transporting it across America. Therefore, inventory is not sitting at the port of origin waiting for a vessel. to reduce transit times.

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State Focus: Arkansas – Easy To Reach, Easy To Grow

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

Arkansas’s railroad infrastructure includes three Class I systems: Union Pacific, BNSF Railway, and Kansas City Southern Railway. Union Pacific operates major yards in Little Rock and Pine Bluff, along with a locomotive repair facility in North Little Rock.

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Project Management Technology Tools Helping Contractors Modernize, Streamline Operations—Part 3 of 5

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Effective project management means controlling the data flow and staying on top of transmittals, submittals, RFIs, email communications, change orders, materials, inventory, job cost and WIP reports, labor hours and wages, union rules, safety regulations, insurance and bonding, compliance data and a whole lot more.

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Illinois: Unveiling the Future of Digital Design and Manufacturing

Business Facilities

A review of the available space inventory reveals that Wheeling’s industrial parks are experiencing strong demand from both existing and new businesses. With visitors from Canada, India, and South America regularly passing through, the airport is a visible symbol of Wheeling’s active participation in the globalized world.

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Industry Focus: Logistics – Going With The Flow

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

Slow economic growth has kept the percentage low, but the supply chain sector has made great strides in productivity, asset utilization and inventory management in the past three years.” There is no inventory tax, which is particularly advantageous to distribution companies. “Logistics costs as a percentage of GDP in the U.S.

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Critical Issues and BIM – NIBS buildingSMART alliance conference – January 7-11, 2013

Building Information Management

Means, the leading publisher of construction cost information in North America. Recently the California Community College System (CCC) serving 2.75 Kimon serves on the Board of Direction for buildingSMART and serves on the AIA Technology in Architectural Practice Knowledge Community Advisory Board. and General Manager of R.S.

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Critical Issues and BIM – NIBS buildingSMART alliance conference – January 7-11, 2013

Building Information Management

Means, the leading publisher of construction cost information in North America. Recently the California Community College System (CCC) serving 2.75 Kimon serves on the Board of Direction for buildingSMART and serves on the AIA Technology in Architectural Practice Knowledge Community Advisory Board. and General Manager of R.S.

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