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Creating a sense of place with multipurpose K-12 school buildings

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By integrating high-performance materials and systems, we can mitigate any initial doubts about the feasibility and comfort of school MPRs, making these spaces compelling and practical for today’s future-focused schools. Today’s multipurpose room (MPR) designs have met those concerns head-on. Here are a few examples: Move walls to move minds.

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: California's.

Natural Building

Californias Green Building Code. California has adopted the nations first statewide green-building standards, which will become mandatory in 2010. The new California Green Buildings Standards Code requires builders to reduce energy use by 15 to 30 percent beyond current standards and use more recycled materials. Yeah California!

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State by State Incentives Guide

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Improved accelerated depreciation schedules. Five-year accelerated depreciation schedules reduce corporate tax burdens. CALIFORNIA – updated for 2014. The borrower’s primary business and at least 50% of employees or income, sales or payroll, must be located in California. Borrowers must show repayment ability.

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

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PROPERTY TAX REFORM: Business: Accelerated Depreciation schedules for prospective acquisitions of commercial personal property have also been improved. Five-year accelerated depreciation schedules have been increased to help companies recover their investments even faster. CALIFORNIA. Possible city business tax exemption.

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LOCATION FOCUS: Texas: Big Heart, Country, Business

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Texas also is home to six of the top 50 companies on the Fortune 500 list, third only after New York and California. expansion and is its largest operations office in North America outside of its Menlo Park, California headquarters. And the U.S. The Austin office represents Facebook’s first major U.S.

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‘I have players potentially with asthma, diabetes… am I going to put them at risk?’: Salford City co-owner Gary Neville says it will be ‘miraculous’ for football to return in June or July as league chiefs fight to complete season

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Right now, I would bet against it not happening again, I can’t see it feasibly starting again.’ There was plenty of scepticism whether the Olympics would pull through and continue as scheduled while events linked to the games were called off. The race involving some 44,000 competitors was scheduled for Sunday March 1.

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