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Rising Tide

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These hopes evaporated like a cloud of smokestack vapor in September 2008 when the global financial system collapsed. percent and that climate-change has become a self-sustaining phenomenon. percent and that climate-change has become a self-sustaining phenomenon.

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Integrated Project Delivery – IPD, Job Order Contracting – JOC, BIM, and Efficient Project Delivery

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Project delivery methods set the tone and largely dictate the relative success of any facility construction, renovation, repair, or sustainability project. During the first two years for the program, April 2006 to April 2008, 34 projects were completed with a total projects value of $3,029,593. Negotiation. Negotiation.

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Cover Story: New Energy Powers Growth

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Since 2008, the U.S. The Marcellus Shale Formation, which contains nearly 500 trillion cubic feet of recoverable natural gas, has seen more than 7,700 new wells drilled in Pennsylvania since 2008. The grant anticipates that the center will become self-sustaining after the initial three-year period.

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FEATURE STORY: Nothing Matters More Than Talent

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AIDT’s workforce selection and training processes have achieved the world’s first ISO 9001:2008 certification for a state-funded workforce training program. Creating and sustaining jobs and workforce development is the central focus of Gov. The training programs would be a partnership program with AIDT and Brookley’s Alabama Aviation.

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LOCATION FOCUS: California Dreamin’ – A Rebound Fueled By New Energy

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Jerry Brown fired the two state regulators who had overseen a 70 percent decline in state drilling permits since 2008, a notable turnaround for a state leader who in his first stint as governor in the 1970s pioneered many of California’s landmark environmental protection statutes. Last year, CA Gov. gigawatt hours of electricity a year.

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Feature Story: Shovel-Ready Sites – Fired Up, Ready To Go

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Since its inception in 2008, the program has recognized 47 active AdvantageSite locations in the state after meeting guidelines such as utility and environmental standards, size, zoning and accessibility. The Georgia Allies started the program in 2008 in response to what other neighboring states have been doing,” said Croteau.

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LOCATION FOCUS: Texas: Big Heart, Country, Business

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Texas’ job growth over the past year points to a steady and sustained expansion of our state’s economy,” said Tom Pauken. Drilling activity, extraction and production in the shale have expanded rapidly since the first well was drilled in 2008. Pauken is the chairman of the Texas Workforce Commission.

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