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Safety AND Security: The Importance of Component Compatibility

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Last month, the Missouri House of Representatives passed a bill requiring all first-floor entryways and exterior windows in school settings to be bullet-resistant. Earlier this year, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) began requiring all ground-level exterior doors and windows to be reinforced with forced-entry resistant film.

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Top 25 Finalists for Ivory Innovations' Housing Affordability Prize

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Trust Neighborhoods | Kansas City, Missouri Trust Neighborhoods is a Kansas City-based nonprofit creating community-controlled real estate where gentrification threatens displacement. The Residents are invested alongside accredited investors in a REIT that includes the very homes in which renters live.

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Integrated Project Delivery – IPD, Job Order Contracting – JOC, BIM, and Efficient Project Delivery

Building Information Management

Project delivery methods must therefore be a component of BIM, a fact many/most 3D visualization software vendors appear to have ignored. State of Missouri. of Missouri JOC Program. The State of Missouri passed legislation in 2005 allowing JOC as a delivery method for project work orders up-to $100,000.

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State by State Incentives Guide

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Property Tax Abatements: The Tax Incentive Reform Act of 1992 (TIRA) allows qualified industries to receive abatements of non-educational property taxes for new businesses locating to Alabama and for expansions of existing facilities in Alabama. The combined state and local millage rate would then be applied to the assessed value.

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

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BROWNFIELD DEVELOPMENT TAX ABATEMENTS: Gives cities and counties the ability to abate the following: Non-educational city and county sales & use taxes; Non-educational state, city and county property taxes—up to 20 years; Mortgage and recording taxes. The educational facility will also serve as fiscal agent for the project.

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GSA, LEED, USGBC, and Politics

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Green Building Education and Services, LLC. Green Building Education Services. Green Education Foundation (GEF). Green Education Inc. National Education Association. National Education Association, Health Information Network. Educational Fund. Plumbers Local 1 Trade Education Fund. Nexant, Inc.