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2024 Timber-Strong Design Build Competition: Small Buildings, Big Educational Opportunities

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Participating students were tasked with drafting and building an attractive, sustainable and durable two-story wood-frame structure. Teams prepare project budgets, adhere to Occupational Safety and Health Administration safety guidelines and the model building code. Among its requirements: Maximum height of 12 feet.

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President Obama’s Promise Zones Initiative

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” The first five Zones, located in San Antonio, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Southeastern Kentucky, and the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, have each put forward a plan on how they will partner with local business and community leaders to make investments that reward hard work and expand opportunity.

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UPDATE: Seven New Locations Added To President Obama’s Promise Zones Initiative

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” The first five Zones, located in San Antonio, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Southeastern Kentucky, and the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, have each put forward a plan on how they will partner with local business and community leaders to make investments that reward hard work and expand opportunity.

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Behind the Build: Interview with Trever White, Group Manager at Toyota Motor North America

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I started right out of college at the University of Kentucky. That included the service desk operations responsible for developing an ITIL support model; then, I moved to application development. This cross-functional organization leads specific functions like Paint, Weld, New Model, etc. Shop Originated Accelerated Results.

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FEATURE STORY: 2014 Economic Development Awards

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Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development , for the Kentucky New Energy Ventures (KNEV) Fund. The KNEV Fund provides seed-stage capital to support the development and commercialization of alternative fuel and renewable energy products, processes and services in Kentucky. Funds are to be used for business development activities.

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Construction Cost Estimating Software vs. Spreadsheets – State of the Nation 2012

Building Information Management

While accurate, timely, and transparent cost estimating is critical to the success of any renovation, repair, sustainability, or new construction project, most construction cost estimators (over 55%) continue to rely primarily upon manual methods, hard copy documents, or electronic spreadsheets such as Microsoft Excel. Nickols, Robert Duane.

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Massachusetts Holds On To Top Energy Efficiency Ranking

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and Kentucky. The ACEEE report shows that we’re making real progress in capturing cost-effective energy efficiencies, which helps reduce power bills for ratepayers and the need for more costly and less sustainable forms of energy generation.”. Idaho advanced seven spots, from 33rd to 26th place.