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Florida State Focus: Changes And Challenges

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From COVID challenges to the road to recovery, not unlike many others, Florida is dealing with new territory in 2021. Read: Florida State Focus: Changes And Challenges at BusinessFacilities.com.

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Florida DOT Plans to Oversee New Pedestrian Bridge at FIU 2 Years After Deadly Collapse

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2 years ago, an under construction pedestrian bridge on Florida International University’s (FIU) campus collapsed onto the open road below, killing 6 people and injuring several more. Full story: Two years after fatal collapse, Florida ready to build new FIU pedestrian bridge | Miami Herald. Thibault, P.E., in a press release.

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Florida: A Warm Climate For Business Growth

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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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How Some Cities are Planning to Rebound from the Pandemic

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Last Wednesday, President Biden announced a $2 trillion infrastructure plan to modernize the nation’s bridges, roads, public transportation, railways, ports and airports.

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Fla. Opts for Quick Repair of State Road That Collapsed During Hurricane Matthew

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directed the Florida Dept. of Transportation to expedite restoration of a 1.3-mile-long mile-long stretch of state Road A1A in Flagler Beach, Fla., Rick Scott (R) on Oct. that had collapsed as a result of Hurricane Matthew-induced storm surge.

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Texas, Florida, Tennessee, Indiana And Georgia Top The Field In BF‘s Best Infrastructure Ranking

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Most of the states failed to get individual grades higher than C- in ASCE’s evaluation—on average, the society found that at least 40 percent of the roads in each state are in poor or mediocre condition and a similar percentage of bridges are crumbling. infrastructure and America received a D+. ASCE estimates the U.S. Great Lakes U.S.

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Student Videos Win ARTBA Infrastructure Contest

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A high school student from Pennsylvania and an undergraduate student from Florida Polytechnic Institute were named winners of the American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s (ARTBA) 4th annual “Student Transportation Video Contest.”'