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

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President Obama has awarded Chicago a $70 million grant from the Department of Defense to build a $320-million Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute. Three other innovation hubs are being built in Canton, MI near Detroit, Youngstown, OH and Raleigh, N.C. The center offers advanced training and development services.

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The benefits and drawbacks of mixed-use development

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Examples of this include: A single or significantly fewer costly sewer tap-ins. Depending on where these developments are planned, a municipality may have to improve roads, sewers and electrical services. The five-story, 231-unit apartment complex includes 15,000 square feet of retail space on the ground floor. Louis, Missouri.

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Building Energy Efficiency, LEAN, and Cloud Technology

Job Order Contracting

Examples of commercial sector buildings include retail stores, office buildings, government buildings, restaurants, hotels, schools, hospitals, and leisure and recreational facilities. Non-building energy use is included in the commercial sector, where it contributes to public services such as traffic lights and water and sewer systems.

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Less Is More In New England

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Waterstone Retail of Needham, MA has a 500,000-square-foot center underway with Phase 1 now open and Phase 2 approved by the city. NCS Global has built a LEED Certified Silver facility for their global headquarters on Innovation Drive. Another key draw for the company at Quonset was its innovative site-readiness program.

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Food Processing: Generating Growth for Good Eats

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Maple Lodge Farms represents one of Brampton’s success stories, combining rich farming tradition, state-of-the-art, in-house processing technology and retail outlets, and exports throughout North America. These companies then process and package it for sale to retail and wholesale markets. million investment.

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Heroic Efforts In California

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The Murrieta Innovation Center celebrated its grand opening with a well-attended ceremonial ribbon cutting in June 2015. The City also has created the Murrieta Innovation Center to help encourage the growth of start-up technology companies and is the home of privately owned software engineering/ code writer’s incubator, the CoHive.

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INDUSTRY FOCUS: The Process of Food

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Since innovation can boost profits, it is a main driving force, helping companies cut production expenses by reducing waste, employ effective manufacturing techniques, optimize automation to lower labor costs, and cut down on input materials such as energy. The company has expanded twice since locating in Livingston County. Half of the U.S.