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Green construction tips to make your facility environmentally friendly

The Korte Company

While juggling sustainability and profitability at the same time is a challenge, construction companies can help owners achieve both by implementing green construction principles. Harness natural resources with green construction. In a way, green construction is partly an exercise in holistic thinking. It’s also free.

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4 Effective Management Practices for Stormwater Runoff

Fieldwire

Often, these points are natural waterways, but they can also end in man-made containment ponds, or even dedicated drainage sewers. The NPDES is a federal construction permit system. These permits set limits on levels of bacteria, pollutants, and solid debris discharged from a source. The question is often: How? Non-Structural.

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Maryland Bans Polystyrene and Enacts 31 other New Environmental Laws

Green Building Law Update

Senate Bill 546 (passed) makes changes to nutrient management plan compliance, enforcement, and reporting; concentrated animal feeding operation permitting and fees; and water quality monitoring in tributaries located on the lower Eastern Shore. Water and Sewer Services. Wetlands Permits and Licenses. Septic Systems.

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SPECIAL REPORT: Site Location Factors For Automotive Suppliers

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

Automotive Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) production increases and the prospect of further establishment of new OEM facilities in already supplier rich geographic corridors are expected to drive significant expansions and green field locations for OEM suppliers. 3) Availability of Utilities. 4) Labor Draw. 8) Value of Incentives.

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Builder of the Year Ivory Homes' Innovation Agenda

Pro Builder

1 home builder in building permits and construction value, scaring off every large-volume, multistate production operation that dared enter Ivory’s Wasatch Mountain lair. Just ask the local sewer district sued by the Coalition that eventually refunded $35 million of overcharged impact fees. Ivory Homes Redesigns the Future.

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Automotive Industry Focus: Hitting On All Cylinders

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

General Motors celebrates the groundbreaking for its $439-million project at the GM Bowling Green (KY) Assembly Plant, home of the Chevrolet Corvette. In May, GM announced a $439 million investment at the Bowling Green plant for technology upgrades and state-of-the-art environmental and efficiency enhancements and a new paint shop.

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Less Is More In New England

Business Facilities

Rochester Public Works has multiple new road, water and sewer improvement projects that will support existing and continued growth in commercial and industrial development. Green Airport in Providence, RI, has approximately 250 domestic flights per day. Gregory Chiklis, PhD., In addition, less than 30 miles away, T.F.