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Feds OK $9B Houston Highway Project After Two-Year Pause

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Federal Highway Administration officials say the agreement to end a civil rights investigation into the proposed I-45 North Houston Highway Improvement Project includes design changes to reduce its neighborhood footprint.

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KOBELCO Excavators Hit US Soil for First Time in Over a Decade

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Houston, Texas (April 23, 2013) – Following the termination of a 10-year agreement with CNH in late December and the subsequent opening of their new, independent U.S. These first shipments will be delivered to customers or available at KOBELCO dealerships throughout the United States and Canada as early as next week.'

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Final Agreement Signed on $16B Texas High-Speed Rail Project

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and joint-venture partner Webuild Group to build a high-speed railway between Dallas and Houston for Texas Central, the final agreement on the design-build project has been signed. Nearly two years after announcing the award of a design-build contract between The Lane Construction Corp.

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Texas Central signs design-build agreement with Salini Impregilo-Lane JV for $20B high-speed rail project

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The contract for the Houston-to-Dallas line adds to existing engineering, design and preconstruction work the team has done under the management of Bechtel in the hopes of starting construction next year.

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SEIU uses new opening to go along on OSHA inspections

FDR Safety

The letter also said that employees in a workplace without a collective bargaining agreement may designate a union-affiliated individual to act as their personal representative. All this potentially provides an opening for union organizers to get a presence in a non-union workplace. Enforcement OSHA'

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Final Agreement Signed for $16B Texas High-Speed Rail Project

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and design-build joint-venture partner Webuild Group will build Dallas to Houston line for Texas Central, after state Supreme Court declined June 18 to hear a lawsuit challenging developer's eminent domain rights. The Lane Construction Corp.

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Houston's first innovation district is established using adaptive reuse

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Houston's first innovation district is established using adaptive reuse 0 qpurcell Wed, 09/13/2023 - 08:58 Adaptive Reuse Gensler's Vince Flickinger shares the firm's adaptive reuse of a Houston, Texas, department store-turned innovation hub. The agreement caused the client to reconsider how the interiors would be perceived.

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