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Greensburg, Kansas Rebuilds Green After Tornado

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Greensburg, a farming community in southwestern Kansas with a population of 900 rebuilt “green” after a tornado barreled through at more than 200 miles per hour and nearly wiped it off the map in 2007. megawatts of electricity, enough to power about 4,000 homes. Photos by Larry Schwarm for The Washington Post.

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BNSF Opens New Logistics Park Intermodal Facility In Kansas

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BNSF Railway introduced its new Logistics Park Kansas City (LPKC) Intermodal Facility in Edgerton, KS in October, 2013. LPKC is projected to help create an estimated 7,400 jobs in the area of the development and 13,000 jobs in the state of Kansas at full build-out. Five wide-span, electric, rail-mounted gantry cranes.

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DD# 85: Wolf Construction Controls

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Of those companies we’ve worked with in the last few years, none stands out more than Wolf Construction in Topeka, Kansas. Wolf is an industrial general contractor, with blue-chip clientele including electrical utilities, petrochemical, and manufacturing customers.

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Business Facilities’ 15th Annual Rankings: State Rankings Report

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A state may have the largest installed capacity of a certain type of renewable energy, but that state won’t meet its renewable energy portfolio standard’s goal if only 10 percent of its electricity is generated from renewables. Over the course of the grant’s 12-year term, the project will grow the state’s economy by an estimated $6.3

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FEATURE STORY: High-Tech Hubs Are Moving To Their Markets

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This means that new hot spots of tech innovation are springing up in places like Kansas City, the site of Google’s new high speed Google Fiber network, and Pittsburgh, a new hotbed for innovative tech start-ups. Greater Kansas City: Silicon Prairie. Kansas City most notably stood out for its significant growth of tech companies.

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How a general contractor thrives when everything in the world goes wrong

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Garry Myers , senior estimator/planner with Clark Construction Company and his approximately 120 colleagues at the Lansing, MI-based general contractor, have had more than their share of challenges in the past few years — and decades. With the software tools, Clark could generate solid cost estimates based on various “what ifs.”

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Evaluating Natural Disaster Risk In Site Selection

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Early estimates are that 6,300 structures have been destroyed in Sonoma County, the most destructive fire in California history. Seismic activity being felt in Oklahoma and southern Kansas is human-caused and referred to as induced earthquakes. Wildfires raged in the Western U.S., Hurricanes Maria, Irma, and Harvey ravaged the U.S.

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