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Oregon Incentives and Workforce Development Guide

Business Facilities

The updated Oregon incentives guide is brought to you by Real Street Expo , a new event sponsored by Business Facilities and Today’s Facility Manager magazines. For a list of Oregon economic development agencies that can help with the site selection process, visit our Online Site Seekers’ Guide. loan origination fee.

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Home Building Accounts for Nearly 3% of U.S. Labor Force

Pro Builder

million of those in the residential sector, according to the National Association of Home Builders. employed civilian labor force, residential construction workers accounted for 2.8% California, the country’s most populous state, also posts the largest share of residential construction workers at 3.3% Compared to the U.S.

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Oregon Incentives and Workforce Development Guide

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

For a list of Oregon economic development agencies that can help with the site selection process, visit our Online Site Seekers’ Guide. Entrepreneurial Development Loan Fund (EDLF): EDLF provides direct loans to help start-ups, micro-enterprises and small businesses expand or become established in Oregon. loan origination fee.

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Oregon Case Allowing Building Code Negligence Claim Under Review

Construction Law Monitor

A few months ago, we wrote about an appeals decision in Oregon that carved an exception to the economic loss rule in a construction defect case, allowing a plaintiff to sue for negligence when a builder doesn’t comply with building codes. You can read the Oregon Supreme Court’s media release here. That opinion - Abraham v.

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Downtown Portland's record $1B development includes little affordable housing

Construction Dive

Of the residential units built or under construction in the Oregon city since 2011, only 10% are categorized as affordable.

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The Passive Solar Potential of Skylights

Natural Building

And there has been a lot of skepticism about how well passive solar heating can work when you have a winter that’s dominated by cloud cover and rain,” said Alexandra Rempel, a building scientist in the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Oregon.

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Property Owners, Builders Push Back on Oregon’s Wildfire Plan

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A key sticking point will come down to defining the so-called wildland-urban interface, where residential areas meet forests and rangelands. If Senator Golden thinks for a minute I'm going to cut down the 200-year-old, 200-foot-tall, old growth ponderosa pine in my yard he is mistaken," Oregon Sen. Betsy Johnson said on a radio show.

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