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Why You Can’t Hire Your Way Out

Construction Business Owner

And blending smart automation with company goals can move your office team from tactical to strategic to help meet hiring needs and daunting revenue projections. Centralize certifications for performance management, career planning and compliance processes. Improve productivity and engagement through employee training. .

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Passive House is “In” in 2017

Green Building Law Update

While most Passive buildings are residential (well over 3500 buildings worldwide and 300 in North America), there are a growing number of commercial and institutional projects (over 500) including office buildings, hotels, schools, and even a prison. Pennsylvania offers tax credits for low income Passive House building.

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FEATURE STORY: Ringing The Bell For Growth

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Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett (Photo: commonwealthfoundation.org, greenbiz.com). Pennsylvania’s chief executive has stepped forward several times to announce mega-projects which promise to drive job creation and technology development in the Commonwealth for years to come. “The By Jack Rogers . Tom Corbett is on a roll.

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Vicki Worden on the New Green Globes and Her Commitment to the Mission

Green Building Law Update

She talks freely about increased first costs, including articulating concerns about those costs as well as time and hassle, all contributing to “some reluctance to pursue” any third party green building certification.

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States Requiring OSHA 10/30 Hour Training

Safety Services Company

The 10 or 30-hour training programs are in-depth certification plans, created by OSHA and administered by government authorized trainers. ” Proof of completion may include a copy of a course completion card or certificate. Pennsylvania P.A. Nevada- Bill No. Nevada assembly Bill No.

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FEATURE STORY: Workforce Development Programs – The Recipe For Success

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FastStart also works closely with software development firms—such as GE Capital, which is creating a 300-job technology center in New Orleans and the 800-job IBM Technology Center already open in Baton Rouge and moving to a permanent office in 2015 at a new urban development under construction. Assembler Okie Kozminski shows Gov.

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FEATURE STORY: 2013 Economic Development Deal of the Year Awards

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. “Locating this Innovation Center in [the Atlanta area] makes good business sense because we can draw from a deep pool of local talent,” said Randy Mott, GM’s chief information officer. Additional phases over the next five years will add 600,000 square feet of sound stages as well as more workshop/office space for production companies.

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