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5 criteria to optimize medical office design

BD+C

High-back lounges that provide a level of visual screening can also help. This could be an indoor space, an outdoor balcony, or a garden area; however, it must be a restricted badge-access area separate from patients, ideally with a visual disconnect from clinical spaces.

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Microbeads Ban in Maryland will be more Efficacious than Others

Green Building Law Update

And the bill does not ban microbeads used in science research or fluid visualization and fluid flow analysis. Illinois became the first state in June 2014 to ban the manufacture or sale of plastic microbeads effective 2018. A “personal care product” does not include a prescription drug.

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

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

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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Small Business Owners Grade Their States For Business Friendliness

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

In contrast, small business owners gave California, Rhode Island and Illinois an “F,” while Connecticut and New Jersey both earned a “D” grade. “Policymakers put themselves in the best position to encourage sustainable growth and long-term prosperity by listening to the voices of small business owners themselves.”

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How to plan your warehouse layout

The Korte Company

Whether you make crude plans in pencil on graph paper or use digital floor planning tools like CAD Pro , SmartDraw or LucidChart , turning ideas into visual assets you can share and discuss with stakeholders will help you (and us) hit the ground running. The 92,000-square-foot expansion to Spartan Light Metal Products in Sparta, Illinois.

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Pulse: 08/20/2012

ENR Construction

Sustainability. Illinois Ivanhoe Cambridge and Hines, two major real estate developers, are planning to build River Point , an office building, in downtown Chicagos West Loop neighborhood. Search our site: Infrastructure. Transportation. Environment. Power & Industrial. Water & Dams. Rebuilding Japan. Gulf Oil Spill. -->.