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GHG, SHG, SEC Regulations – Facilities Regs and Reporting Changes Coming Soon

Job Order Contracting

The proposed rules draw from existing disclosure frameworks including the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures and the Greenhouse Gas Protocol. Base year GHG inventory is step one and determines your facilities carbon footprint, Step 2 is Reducing Carbon Footprint, Step 3 = Offset. Buffer zones. Energy savings.

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Construction Cost Estimating Blog: How iPads and Android tablets.

Construction Cost Estimating

The contractors can utilize iPads for gathering information form project blueprints and architect’s drawings to schedule and material inventory. iPads are connected with the other computer systems that conveys minute information from project blueprints, architect’s drawings, schedules and material inventory.

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Industry Focus – Retail: Less Than Six Degrees of Separation

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

The largest city in Southwest Florida is prime for retail operations planning to expand into a market that is home to ready buyers and in a subtropical climate with close proximity to major urban cores that draw consumers. Investment Zones & Distinct Communities. percent accounting for the added inventory. Bankrate, 2015).

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Location Focus: New York – The Empire State Leverages Its Strengths

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

The program transforms State University of New York (SUNY) campuses, private colleges and universities, and university communities across the state into tax-free zones for new and expanding businesses. ?Business Just next door to Long Island MacArthur Airport is Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) #52.

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Construction Cost Estimating Blog: Construction Hard Cost

Construction Cost Estimating

Hard cost should include physical items like Land Cost/Value, Site Prep/Grading, Building Structure, Septic tank/Well, Landscape, Inventory, Contingency, Construction Contract, Change Orders, Cost overruns etc. In general, hard costs relate to any part of the work or costs associated with the actual project. Blog Archive. ► 2012. (18).

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Iowa: Moving To The Top Of The Class

Business Facilities

All have ready access to major transportation infrastructure, energy, water and zoning that meets the industry needs of advanced manufacturing, information technology and bioscience companies. When it comes to workforce, companies in the Quad Cities can draw from the 40 colleges and universities located within a 90 mile radius.

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5 questions all Project Managers should ask themselves before they start a project

Lets Build

materials getting damaged in the inventory because they were ordered too early or stored poorly. Have I integrated zoning into my planning? One of the most common yet crucial mistakes made by project managers, especially in projects that come with a lot of repetition is that they fail to integrate zoning into their planning.