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Health & The Built Environment: Scales of Impact

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These strategies are showcased in projects like NRDC’s San Francisco office – which was recently recognized with the 2018 CoreNet Sustainable Leadership Award – where the health of the occupant was at front of mind for the entire design team. Photo credit: Jasper Sanidad , NRDC San Francisco office.

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Fall Conference Circuit: 12 Top Takeaways

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As outlined in a session on sustainable and healthy workspaces , employers want lower costs, shorter lease terms, fewer commitments, a shift from fixed to variable costs, talent attraction and retention, and increased flexibility. Bioneers | San Francisco, CA. #10: 7: High performance design is optimized when value-aligned.

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Two Tech Companies Growing In Central Indiana

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PactSafe , a legal-focused technology company, plans to invest $575,000 to lease and equip a new office in Indianapolis. In addition to its Indiana office, PactSafe also maintains a part-time presence in California through its partnership with Acceleprise, an entrepreneurship accelerator operating in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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GSA, LEED, USGBC, and Politics

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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. City of San Francisco, Department of the Environment. Green Education Foundation (GEF).

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FEATURE STORY: The Story Of Storage

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With networks—the oxygen for cloud services—as the foundation, adding the industry’s leading cloud providers will create best-in-class scalability, management, automation, software, and many-to-many exchange capability. Meanwhile, it is leasing large quantities of data center space in California’s Silicon Valley.

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

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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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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. Currently, SMUD is building the foundation for the “smart grid.” Last year, CA Gov.