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Energy Efficient Underground Home in Pennsylvania

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Judy Quick has lived in a custom-built, subterranean home in Western Pennsylvania since 2003. “I She recently finished a large front patio with stones collected from her travels. The post Energy Efficient Underground Home in Pennsylvania appeared first on Natural Building Blog. It’s something I can leave to my family.”.

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DOL: Pennsylvania subcontractor will pay $384K in back wages, penalties for violating H-2B rules

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The agency said a swimming pool builder failed to pay H-2B workers at the required wage rate and for their travel to and from the worksite.

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[VIDEO] Self-Driving Truck Travels Cross-Country

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The first known cross country commercial freight delivery made by an autonomous truck has been completed after a self-driving truck packed with 40,000 pounds of Land O’ Lakes butter successfully made an over 2,800 mile trip from California to Pennsylvania. According to an article in Mic, the trip…

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New York Penn Station’s stylish new entrance invites travelers to the train concourse and the city

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billion 486,000-sf Moynihan Train Hall, an adaptive reuse of the 107-year-old Farley Post Office Building and the first major step toward the reimagination of New York City’s Pennsylvania Station, the busiest train station in the Western Hemisphere. Great fanfare was accorded the opening, last January, of the $1.6

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President Eisenhower's Dream of U.S. Interstate System Almost Finished

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Originally funded by the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 , I-95 is the longest north-south highway in the country and the most used in terms of vehicle miles traveled, according to the Department of Transportation.

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Eisenhower's Dream of U.S. Interstate System Almost Finished

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Originally funded by the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 , I-95 is the longest north-south highway in the country and the most used in terms of vehicle miles traveled, according to the Department of Transportation.

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Award of Merit Highway/Bridges: Interstate 70, Section T20 Reconstruction and Widening

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Route 19 into Pennsylvania’s first diverging diamond interchange required a traffic control plan to minimize disruptions to the tens of thousands of motorists who travel through the area daily. Converting the functionally obsolete cloverleaf interchange connecting I-70 and U.S.