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Top questions to ask when designing a green roof

GCP Applied Technologies

Before writing the spec, have a dialogue with a green roof consultant or manufacturer to get concrete information about installation and maintenance costs. Research green roof consultants. With this information in hand, you can work with your green roof consultant to come up with specifications that fully meet your client’s needs.

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Open Borders

Business Facilities

Seattle and Vancouver, both burgeoning high-tech hubs, are engaged in an intense competition for the expansion dollars now being spent by tech giants like Microsoft who have long called the region home. According to the Boston Consulting Group, foreign workers in the U.S. and Canada also may surprise you. Canada border).

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Structural engineering solutions for office-to-residential conversion

BD+C

Boston , New York , and San Francisco , are considering ways to improve the financial incentives, change zoning policies and expedite plan reviews, but developers should get a full-service team assembled to take a hard look at a conversion before they get started. Seattle, Wash., Portland, Ore. enacted Title 24.85

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How the Pandemic Will Shape the Future of Off-Site Residential Construction

Pro Builder

For example, factory environments support social distancing practices, since workers remain in controlled, stationed zones. In fact, The Boston Consulting Group found that workplace accidents are halved in off-site construction settings. Janet Stephenson is the head of building platform sales at Katerra , in Seattle. . . . .

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Home Stretch

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

Currently, East Coast ports get about 35 percent of the container traffic from Asia, while 65 percent is unloaded at such West Coast ports as Los Angeles-Long Beach and Seattle-Tacoma, which can already handle larger ships and have the additional advantage of access to roads that are less congested than those of the eastern seaboard.

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Industry Focus: Global Aerospace Production Soars To New Heights

Business Facilities

When the renowned Boston Consulting Group recently ranked the top 50 most innovative companies, it was found that 13 of that top 50 operate significant R&D facilities in Michigan. of Sterling Heights, one of 11 PMBC companies that ventured to Seattle to meet with the aerospace giant in August 2013. 30 minutes to downtown Seattle.

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Cover Story: Global Biotech Report

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

One of LCSB’s most important strategic partnerships has been set up with the ISB in Seattle, WA. Another Bio-incubator is called Eurobiotec Brussels and sits in the Erasmus Industrial Zone in the capital. Biological samples and their associated data are collected and stored there, making them available to research organizations.

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