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Facility programming: The driving force behind healthcare design

The Korte Company

The Wainwright Building —one of America’s first steel “skyscrapers”—still stands (and it’s just 30 miles from our headquarters in Highland, Illinois). In such a restrictive environment, some might think that there’s little room for designers to conjure up visually appealing spaces. Department of Defense.

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Business Report: Chicago Will Host Digital Manufacturing And Design Innovation Institute

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President Obama has awarded Chicago a $70 million grant from the Department of Defense to build a $320-million Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute. The Digital Lab will apply computing technologies to address the manufacturing challenges faced by the Department of Defense. Quinn said.

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Green construction tips to make your facility environmentally friendly

The Korte Company

The flow diagram on page 12 of this presentation can help you better visualize the cash and non-cash benefits that combine to create SROI. Here are a few we love to showcase: Spartan Light Metal Products – Sparta, Illinois. The Korte Company has been a leading Department of Defense construction provider for years.

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2012 Business Facilities Rankings Report

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The gold statuettes went to Moonbot Studios in Shreveport for its animated short subject, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, and Pixomondo, whose work on the film Hugo won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects. More than 162,000 workers are directly employed in the aerospace/defense industries in the Golden State.

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Critical Issues and BIM – NIBS buildingSMART alliance conference – January 7-11, 2013

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Siebel Center for Computer Science and the National Center for Supercomputing for the University of Illinois Urban/Champaign and two research laboratory buildings for The Scripps Research Institute for their new campus in Florida. Russ Manning , Department of Defense Health Systems. Healthcare BIM Consortium.

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Critical Issues and BIM – NIBS buildingSMART alliance conference – January 7-11, 2013

Building Information Management

Siebel Center for Computer Science and the National Center for Supercomputing for the University of Illinois Urban/Champaign and two research laboratory buildings for The Scripps Research Institute for their new campus in Florida. Russ Manning , Department of Defense Health Systems. Healthcare BIM Consortium.

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

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In addition to the manufacturing industry and California’s small business employers, the Panel also prioritizes nanotechnology, biotechnology and life sciences, goods movement and transportation logistics, aerospace and defense, advanced IT services, multimedia/entertainment, healthcare, construction, agriculture and renewables.

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