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Business Report: Chicago Will Host Digital Manufacturing And Design Innovation Institute

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We started Illinois Manufacturing Lab with the University of Illinois. The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (NCSA) will play a key role at the new Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute. A GOLDEN CORRIDOR OF ADVANCED MANUFACTURING IN ILLINOIS.

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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. What characteristics of the property and its environment can be leveraged to make the building more sustainable? Sustainable return on investment.

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A HERS Rating for Water Use?

Pro Builder

There's a 65% increase in water and sewer costs from 2009 to 2019. In fact, a couple of towns in Indiana and Illinois recently announced that they're going to be increasing their water costs 18% on a residential side and I think 40% on the commercial side because they have to pay for infrastructure improvements. . . Sustainability.

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How to plan your warehouse layout

The Korte Company

The 92,000-square-foot expansion to Spartan Light Metal Products in Sparta, Illinois. In the images above, we superimposed alternative layout options atop a satellite map for a customer in Illinois whose 100,000-square-foot facility would occupy property adjacent to existing businesses and a busy state highway. Louis, Missouri.

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UPDATE: Seven New Locations Added To President Obama’s Promise Zones Initiative

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In Southeastern Kentucky, the Kentucky Highland’s Investment Corps’ key strategies include: Implementing a sustainable economic effort across eight counties in the Kentucky Highlands region, focused on diversifying Southeastern Kentucky’s economy to make it more resilient. Southeastern Kentucky (Kentucky Highlands). Far West U.S. -

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Food Processing: Generating Growth for Good Eats

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It is served by the New Castle municipal water and sewer utility. With the steady economic growth taking place in southwest Missouri, many new businesses are astounded at the innovative, sustainable, and trend-setting developments underway throughout the region, many of which stand to rival even the nation’s most notable urban smart cities.

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LOCATION FOCUS: Indiana — More And More Roads Are Leading To “The Crossroads Of America”

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Incorporated in 1949, Hoosier Energy is a generation and transmission cooperative (G&T) providing wholesale electric power and services to 18 member distribution cooperatives in central and southern Indiana and southeastern Illinois to meet the collective electricity needs of more than 750,000 residents, businesses, industries and farms.

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