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Kimley-Horn eliminates the guesswork of electric vehicle charger site selection

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has 145,000 public Level 2 and direct-current (DC) fast charging ports. million combined Level 2 chargers and DC fast charging ports—16 times today’s number— according to S&P Global Mobility. Services include site selection, site feasibility assessment, site design, permitting, utility coordination, and more. will need 2.3

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The Complexity Of OSHA’s PSM Standard

FDR Safety

I recently attended the 2 nd Annual Process Safety Summit in Washington DC on Oct 15-16, 2019. Using accepted ANSI standards, we are able to make use risk assessment, feasible risk reduction using the hazard control hierarchy and acceptable risk to solve real-world problems.

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OSHA Proposing Several New Rule Changes for Construction Through 2021

Construction Junkie

OSHA also concluded that the new 8-hour time-weighted average (TWA) PEL of µg/m3 reduced this significant risk to the maximum extent feasible. The standard has a large number of provisions designed to improve crane safety and reduce worker injury and fatality.

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Some useful tips to reduce the cost of your home

Construction Cost Estimating

Check development regulations: Survey area that has the feasibility to construction building in near future. You local municipality or DC (Development Control) provides FSI for each area on the basis of several factors. Therefore, opt for a land parcel that is neither extremely high or low with regards to the level of the road.

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Cracking the code of affordable housing

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Washington, DC, offers an inclusionary zoning program that allows residential developers to build more units than would normally be permitted as long as eight to 10% of those units are affordable. Even better, Calleri says, residents don’t need a car to traverse the city or get to work.

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When office-to-residential conversion works

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In most cases, these office-to-residential incentives are necessary to offset the other economic forces at play, DC Managing Principal Barbara Mullenex says. Office buildings are worth more” than residential as income generators, she explains. Generally, the highest and best use for something is office, if there’s a market for it.

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Federal Facilities – Implementation of Energy Savings Projects and Performance-Based Contracting for Energy Savings

Building Information Management

a) Agencies shall, where technically feasible, continue efforts to connect meters and advanced metering devices to enterprise energy management systems to streamline and optimize measurement, management, and reporting of facility energy use. (b) Consistent with section 432 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C.