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Building a Performance Model

Pro Builder

Building a Performance Model. It's one of the first things we model," he says. "We Smith models home performance with Energy Gauge, a simulation software developed by the Florida Solar Energy Center. Even in the hot Florida sun, you can touch the inside of the frame and it still feels cool," says Smith. kcichowicz.

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Florida: A Warm Climate For Business Growth

Business Facilities

You can have peace-of-mind when you locate your business in Florida. Florida consistently ranks among the best states for business, thanks to its pro-business state tax policies, competitive cost of doing business and streamlined regulatory environment. Florida ranks fourth in the nation for high tech employment.

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Boat Builder Investing $7M In Florida

Business Facilities

The new facility will house larger models and free up capacity at the company’s existing 9.5-acre Pierce, which will increase production and expand model offerings for each of the company’s four brands. Photo: Enterprise Florida. Relocating or Expanding Your Business In Florida. Lucie County, FL, creating 100 jobs.

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Engineer Probing Champlain Towers Debacle Eyes Possibility of Three Successive Collapses

ENR Construction

Investigators probing the trigger of the progressive collapse of a section of the Florida residential condominium are preparing a computer model of the unstable 12-story tower remains to advise about vacating rescuers in the event of a hurricane.

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Balfour Beatty wins $780M contract to lead design-build for Florida convention center

Construction Dive

The contractor will use building information modeling, virtual reality and lean construction methods such as target-value design at the Ft. Lauderdale complex, where preconstruction work is underway.

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Secrets of a structural engineer

BD+C

Scott Martin, PE, LEED AP, DBIA Building Team Contractors Designers Designers / Specifiers / Landscape Architects Engineers Facility Managers Architects Building Owners Recently, I was asked to present to a group of aspiring engineers at the Florida A&M-Florida State University College of Engineering.

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Florida to get $1 million federal grant to study sinkhole vulnerability

BD+C

The Florida Geological Survey and the state’s emergency department will receive a $1.08 The grant, funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Florida Division of Emergency Management, finances a three-year project that will generate a map modeling potential sinkhole activity in Florida’s counties.

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