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First Green Globes certification given to new University of North Carolina housing facility

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The Green Building Initiative (GBI) announced that the University of North Carolina-Charlotte’s Belk Hall, a student housing facility for the college’s upper division students, is the first building certified under the 2013 Green Globes for New Construction (NC), according to GBI president Jerry Yudelson.

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Hope Renovations Nonprofit Trains Women for Construction Careers

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Women are largely underrepresented in the skilled trades, but Nora El-Khouri Spencer, founder of the Hope Renovations nonprofit, seeks to change that with more inclusive education and training resources. Education + Training. Since July 2020, more than 40 women and non-binary individuals have completed the program.

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Business Facilities’ 15th Annual Rankings: State Rankings Report

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North Carolina, Colorado and Virginia topped the chart in BF’s flagship Economic Growth Potential ranking. North Carolina has been laying out the welcome mat for businesses in a diverse group of industries, offering a growing talent pool of young skilled workers, an attractive quality of life and targeted incentives.

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Workforce Training: Engineering A Skilled Workforce

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Here’s the good news: most of the states (and the federal government) got the memo (Workforce Training is Job One) and they are moving aggressively to put in place innovative and highly effective workforce training programs that put forward-thinking businesses and higher education resources on the same team. VIRGINIA’S TRADITION OF TRAINING.

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UPDATE: Seven New Locations Added To President Obama’s Promise Zones Initiative

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o Help Accessing Resources: Where necessary to achieve their goals, Promise Zones will get priority and be able to access federal investments that further the goals of job creation, additional private investment, increased economic activity, improved educational opportunity, and reduction in violent crime.

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Becoming an authority: Credentials help, of course, but there is more to the story

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Steven A Baker, Wilmington District Commander of the Army Corps of Engineers at a military-construction event in North Carolina. The Carpenters Union in Ontario has taken measures to increase the authority recognition of its members, including its lobbying for the Ontario College of Trades and compulsory certification for the trade.

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

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Interstate 40 is the major east-west thoroughfare reaching from North Carolina to California that runs through Arkansas. Louis and Chicago to the north and New Orleans to the south, while Interstate 30 connects Arkansas with markets to the southwest, including Texas and Mexico. Department of Education.