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London City planners to fast-track office retrofits

Construction Enquirer

They will also relax restrictions on change-of-use proposals for historic city office buildings that cannot cost-effectively be upgraded to grade A The softening in planning policy comes after Corporation chiefs commissioned Arup and agent Knight Frank to assess future demand in the financial district post-pandemic.

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New Report Examines How To Create Manufacturing Jobs

Business Facilities

A University of Virginia Miller Center commission, chaired by former Governors Haley Barbour and Evan Bayh, has released a report offering innovative, non-partisan and actionable ideas on creating manufacturing jobs, which have been an engine of well-paying, middle-class employment throughout U.S. Posted by Heidi Schwartz.

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Maryland Bans Polystyrene and Enacts 31 other New Environmental Laws

Green Building Law Update

The Transportation and Climate Initiative of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States is a regional collaboration that seeks to improve transportation, develop the clean energy economy, and reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector. In Maryland, over 640,000 public school students receive transportation services.

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

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Arkansas offers companies a strong transportation network with intersecting Interstates, rail access and water transportation. Many of Arkansas’s port locations have railway connections that provide a smooth transition for various modes of transportation and quick delivery. Hunt Transport, ABF Freight System, P.A.M.

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Tax Reform Impact on Employers and Employees

Revit OpEd

Work-related education. Fourth, the provision eliminates the exceptions for commissions and performance-based compensation from the definition of compensation subject to the deduction limit. Thus, under the provision, employees may not claim the above-listed items as itemized deductions for taxable years 2018 through 2025.

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Top 10 Construction Companies in the USA

CivilJungle

NASA gave one of the Biggest known to Bechtel to design, construct, and commission Mobile Launcher 2, and its Ground Structure which will be used to assemble and launch the Space Launch System rocket. Construction of new campus of Hi-Tech Education and business incubation Saudi Arabia. Metrolinx transit program.

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COMMUNITY PROFILE: Opportunity Knocks in Southwest Louisiana

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SWLA’s transportation infrastructure is keeping pace with surging development needs. We are blessed to have natural resources like oil and gas, but you have to be able to transport them and that adds value,” he told the American Press. Transportation issues aren’t fixed overnight,” he notes. “We By Eric Cormier.