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Fall Conference Circuit: 12 Top Takeaways

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2: Net Zero Electricity does not equal Net Zero Energy. While we’re pouring immense effort into cleaning up the electricity grid and seeing impressive progress, there are other types of fuel that we need to be tackling with the same tenacity if we’re to truly achieve aggressive Net Zero Energy targets. Bioneers | San Francisco, CA. #10:

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Innovation Is Thriving In Arizona

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The facility also produces electric and composite products and is the primary global services and support center for Boeing’s rotorcraft. After leasing the U.S. Army and other foreign militaries. Boeing will add hundreds of additional employees to its Mesa operations as it moves some of its internal services from Seattle.

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

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Fridays and is expanding to other cities including Seattle, San Francisco, Portland, Denver, DC, Dallas and Houston. These combined projects will result in more than $221 million in new capital investment, 1000 new jobs, 2,000 retained jobs and more than 423,000 square feet of newly constructed or leased space.

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COVER STORY: 2013 Business Facilities Rankings Report – Metro And Global Rankings

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At least 65 percent of these funds will be provided for expansion of the Computer Science Division of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at LSU. During construction of the new riverfront complex, IBM will be temporarily lease space at the Essen Centre office complex in Baton Rouge.

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LOCATION FOCUS: California Dreamin’ – A Rebound Fueled By New Energy

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The federal Bureau of Land Management, which has subsurface mineral rights for much of the Monterey shale field, in December sold about 15 leases for thousands of acres of potential shale development in California. gigawatt hours of electricity a year. Last year, CA Gov.

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GSA, LEED, USGBC, and Politics

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GSA is ahead of schedule in reducing its potable water and electricity use. If GSA, as the “landlord of the federal government,” were to require or use something else, it would add cost to the building and leasing process across the building industry. City of San Antonio, Office of Environmental Policy. Schneider-Electric.

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FEATURE STORY: The Story Of Storage

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Large-scale data centers are known to use the amount of electricity equivalent to small towns and, despite many greening initiatives, some centers release a significant amount of air pollution in the form of diesel exhaust. Meanwhile, it is leasing large quantities of data center space in California’s Silicon Valley.