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20 Communities To Address Climate Change, Resilience, Social Equity

Business Facilities

Green Building Council is expanding its LEED for Cities and Communities program with a new $500,000 grant from Bank of America. Read: 20 Communities To Address Climate Change, Resilience, Social Equity at BusinessFacilities.com.

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Feature Story: Shovel-Ready Sites – Fired Up, Ready To Go

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GETTING CERTIFIED IN WISCONSIN. For the past three years, the Certified in Wisconsin Program has played a key role in helping Wisconsin communities showcase their prime industrial sites and in turn, attract new development to the state. million project is bringing 300-plus jobs to northwestern Wisconsin.

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Cellular Dynamics International Opens Facility In Novato, CA

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This opening of a second CDI facility is in response to the company receiving a $16 million grant award from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to create and bank human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). Tom Novak, Ph.D.,

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A Deming Dozen: Nuggets of Wisdom to Work and Live By

Pro Builder

One asks the students, ‘What is the capital of Wisconsin?’ The other asks, ‘Why is the capital of Wisconsin in Madison?’” One of my favorite Deming videos shows him standing in front of a big audience saying, “Two classes. Two teachers. Deming stretches out his hands and declares, “That makes all the difference.

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China Dams, The World Slams

Construction Knowledge

They often take on 3rd world projects that Western companies and the World Bank won’t touch because of environmental, social, political or financing concerns. “You go to China if you want to have them financed.”

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Feature Story: Public-Private Partnerships – An Alliance For Progress That Works

Business Facilities

Navy Federal Credit Union, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Deutsche Bank. The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) was created in July 2011 as a quasi-public organization to more quickly meet the needs of the Wisconsin business community. million in capital investment. WEDC: OPERATING AT THE SPEED OF TODAY’S BUSINESS.

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Some of the Oldest Buildings in the U.S.

Natural Building

Fort de Chartres, a French fortification on the east bank of the Mississippi River, was originally built in 1720 during the colonization of Illinois to defend against the local Meskwaki people. The Wakely Home in Wisconsin is known for its classic wooden-frame symmetrical construction.