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What You Missed at Collaborate 2018: The Power of Connection

Viewpoint Construction Technology

We recently hosted more than 2,400+ customers, partners, future customers and colleagues in Portland, Oregon for our ninth annual Collaborate Viewpoint User Conference. Rojo, the Portland llama and Napoleon the alpaca are therapy animals who visit hospitals all over Portland to bring joy to patients. We are the lucky ones here.

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Submersible Generator Readied for River Service

ENR Construction

The road to innovation can be a long and winding one, but it might be hard to rival the path followed by the Ocean Renewable Power Co.,

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Extra Rapid Hardening Cement | Advantages & Disadvantages of Extra Rapid Hardening cement | Applications, Properties & Uses of Extra Rapid Hardening cement

CivilJungle

The use of ordinary portland cement in the construction required more time for hardening and removal of Formwork. The construction which is done by using Ordinary Portland cement generally takes 24 hours to set and hardened completely and it requires consistent curing. Time is directly connected to the cost of the project.

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BUSINESS REPORT: Texas – Innovation Moves Front And Center In Austin

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

Technology innovation is happening across the country, but there is no better place to witness the revolution other than Austin, TX, home to a rapidly expanding technology industry. We attended several events hosted by the Austin Chamber of Commerce and caught up with several new innovative tech companies. By Jenny Vickers.

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: Magnesium.

Natural Building

Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. Green Electrical Contracting. Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. View my complete profile. Responding to Catastrophe. Living Walls.

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Nature as the city: Why it’s time for a new framework to guide development

BD+C

Street Level Greenscape Interventions Innovative approaches to leveraging the power of natural interventions can also be found at the individual street level. The project brings together greenspace and a dog park on the same site as the city’s newest electrical substation.

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Seven Finalist Cities Chosen For Smart City Challenge

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

USDOT has pledged up to $40 million to one city to help it define what it means to be a “Smart City “and become the country’s first city to fully integrate innovative technologies – self-driving cars, connected vehicles, and smart sensors – into its transportation network. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Smart City Challenge.