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ADOT Partners With Tucson-Area Tribe On Construction Academy

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Twenty-seven members of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe earned their certification to work as flaggers on tribal construction projects through a free Construction Academy sponsored by the Arizona Department of Transportation.

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ADOT Partners With Tribe On Construction Academy

Construction Equipment

Twenty-seven members of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe earned their certification to work as flaggers on tribal construction projects through a free Construction Academy sponsored by the Arizona Department of Transportation.

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National Craft Assessment & Certification Program Wins Award

Construction Superintendent Magazine

ALACHUA, Fla. -- NCCER was honored with the Construction Users Roundtable Workforce Development Award for its National Craft Assessment & Certification Program at the 2013 CURT National Conference held Nov. 11-13 in Tucson, Ariz. frontpage'

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The History of the Straw Bale Revival with Matts Myhrman

Natural Building

I knew a little bit about tools and working with my hands, but I didn’t have any real exposure to construction. I was teaching geology in Tucson at the time and living in a house that functioned miserably in the Tucson climate. I learned a fair amount of construction by working with Rocky. I got right on that.

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FEATURE STORY: High-Tech Hubs Are Moving To Their Markets

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Some of the locations already are well-known for developing the next generation of technologies, such as Austin, home to Dell, Apple, Facebook and Google, and Tucson, with its hotbed of solar technology innovation. In addition to funding to construct the system, NEDO will monitor and test the system for the next two years.

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FEATURE STORY: 2013 Economic Development Awards

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The largest project in the community’s history, the West Haymarket redevelopment project, was sup- ported financially by the Partnership through the passage of a bond issue that will construct a new 16,000-seat arena. This credit is effective for ethane purchased between Jan. 1, 2017 and Dec.

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FEATURE STORY: Workforce Development Programs – The Recipe For Success

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In 1999, AIDT constructed a $30 million, 62,000-square-foot Honda Training Center in Lincoln—replete with classrooms and assembly line replicas—to lure the auto manufacturer. Navy to construct 10 new warships. One of those firms, Austral USA, an Australian shipbuilder, just received a $5 billion contract from the U.S.

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