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Are Your Safety Policies Asking for Trouble?

FDR Safety

Things like “always keep a load strapped and secured” makes sense until the worker(s) must unstrap the load to move it. Transporting, loading or unloading materials with powered vehicles and another worker(s) is in the proximity of the load. Enforcing machine lockout when lockout is not feasible.

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What Is Tunel | Types of Tunnels | What Are Tunnels Used for | Classification of Tunnel | How Are Tunnels Built |Advantages of Tunnels | Disadvantages of Tunnels

CivilJungle

The tunnels are underwater passageways used mostly for transport purposes. They may be used to transport freight and travellers, water, sanitation, respectively. Transport like road buses, trains, subways as well as canals. Advantages of Tunnels: Tunnels enable rapid but unrestricted transport in large congested cities.

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The Drone Age

Business Facilities

” It’s bad enough that the FAA thinks it’s feasible to soon start allowing thousands of commercial drones to fly in the U.S. ” Gryphon Sensors is calling its project U-SAFE. Okay, call us the skunks at the 21st-century Drone Age party, but we think the last sentence should end in a question mark, as in “U-SAFE?

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Federal Facilities – Implementation of Energy Savings Projects and Performance-Based Contracting for Energy Savings

Building Information Management

(b) Consistent with section 432 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. a) Agencies shall, where technically feasible, continue efforts to connect meters and advanced metering devices to enterprise energy management systems to streamline and optimize measurement, management, and reporting of facility energy use.

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SNAPSHOTS: 60 Seconds… with Dennis Davin, Secretary, PA DCED

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

There are currently more than $10 billion in transmission pipeline projects proposed for the Marcellus Shale that will transport our state’s resource to end use markets. The centerpiece for the 16-acre WTC development is the World Trade Center Transportation Hub, a facility housing a rebuilt PATH station for trains connecting NYC and NJ.

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FEATURE STORY: 2013 Economic Development Deal of the Year Awards

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

As part of its portion of $72 million in state incentives for Hankook, the Tennessee Department of Transportation has pledged infrastructure improvements including widening interstate exit ramps and creating a five-lane access road to the Corporate Business Park’s southern entrance near the site of the new plant.

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

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

A central element of the public-private partnership involved in securing the IBM center is the construction of a mixed-use, riverfront complex that will be developed by Commercial Properties Realty Trust (CPRT), a real estate investment trust that manages and develops property holdings of the Baton Rouge Area Foundation (BRAF).

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