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Industry Focus: Global Aerospace Production Soars To New Heights

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According to Deloitte’s 2014 Global Aerospace and Defense Outlook , the commercial aerospace sector is expected to experience significant growth this year, driven by continued record-setting production levels at assembly facilities and throughout the aerospace supplier network. Virtually every major defense contractor in the U.S.

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Rad Projects of 2018

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Client: Boston Properties. Client: Natural Resources Defense Council. Let’s celebrate some of our clients that really took their commitment to high performance buildings to a new level in 2018! Salesforce Tower. Certification: LEED CS v2009 Platinum. NRDC San Francisco.

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Great Leap Forward

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tech sectors and even in our distracted and barely functioning federal government, which assumed that outdated security restrictions preventing China from purchasing obvious defense-related technology—think missile-guidance systems—also would deter the PRC from grabbing the crown jewels of our most-recent high-tech breakthroughs.

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2012 Business Facilities Rankings Report

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For the past few years, we have issued a Metro ranking for our annual evaluation of aerospace/defense manufacturing leaders. More than 162,000 workers are directly employed in the aerospace/defense industries in the Golden State. aerospace and defense industry directly employed 1.05 Deloitte estimates that the U.S.

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Advanced Manufacturing Driving Pittsburgh’s Economic Growth

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According to PRA market research findings, the region has the third highest concentration of young people with advanced degrees – trailing only Washington, DC and Boston. The population of well-educated young professionals is on the rise in southwestern Pennsylvania. The median age of the city of Pittsburgh is 32.8,

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My Kingdom for a Horse

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7 at Boston’s Logan International Airport. NTSB photo of the burned auxiliary power unit battery from a JAL Boeing 787 that caught fire on Jan. The dimensions of the battery are 19×13.2×10.2 inches and it weighs approximately 63 pounds (new). “For want of a nail, the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe, the horse was lost.

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The Future was on Display at Greenbuild

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GBCI also announced it will begin working together with the Environmental Defense Fund to develop, deliver and promote the Investor Confidence Project as the premier global underwriting standard for energy efficiency projects. I recommend you join us in pursuing those business opportunities at Greenbuild next year in Boston.

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