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BUSINESS REPORT: Texas – Innovation Moves Front And Center In Austin

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Technology shares the spotlight with music and film at the annual South by Southwest festival in Austin, TX. Technology innovation is happening across the country, but there is no better place to witness the revolution other than Austin, TX, home to a rapidly expanding technology industry. By Jenny Vickers. TEXAS FAST FACTS.

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LEAN OpenJOC(TM) Job Order Contracting for Sustainable Facilities Repair, Renovation, and Minor New Construction

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Benefits of an OpenJOC Job Order Contract implementation include an expedited procurement process, and consistent completion of quality projects on-demand, on-time, and on-budget per owners/contractor expectations. Best value procurement. Owner technical and procurement staff is supplemented. The Origins of IDIQ and JOC.

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Characteristics of Strategic Collaboration and Efficient Construction Project Delivery

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Integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery processes and team. The benefits of strategic collaboration vs. traditional construction planning, procurement, and project delivery are well documented and partially listed below (Chan et al., University of Texas at Austin, August 1989. Texas at Austin, July 1991.

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California Embodied Carbon Legislation: How to Prepare for AB 2446

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It’s currently in the early development stages, with a proof-of-concept calculator and a pilot study applying reduction scenarios to three cities: New York City, Portland, and Austin. For each city, the team identified a baseline scenario of total embodied carbon by 2050, as well as 3-6 reduction scenarios depending on the policy type.

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Achieving Best Value for Facility Renovation, Repair, Maintenance, and Construction – 2016 and Beyond

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The process is extremely wasteful in terms of resources spent upon procurement, associate construction delays, poor quality, and the common occurrence of legal disputes. procurement methods is that best value (referred to in the Directive as ‘most economically advantageous tender’) is used in virtually all types of procurements” (Cox et al.,

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Advanced Manufacturing: Manufacturing Gets Smarter, Faster

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The Red Tape Reduction Initiative encourages businesspeople, state employees and consumers to identify burdensome regulations and offer suggestions for improvement. Bevin plans to convene a special session to take up tax and state pension reform.

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Industry Focus: Food Processing – The Process Of Consistency

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Beyond Arizona’s own list of attractive qualities—low operating costs, high quality of life, educated workforce and minimal regulation, just to name a few—Santa Cruz Commerce Center offers advantages that are unique to Indian reservations and especially to Ak-Chin.