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Marketing Industrialized Construction to Consumers

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For years, builders have believed consumers stigmatize industrialized construction, visualizing a cheaply built manufactured or mobile home. (In Your Road Map to Off-Site Construction and Modular Homes. Industrialized Construction: Stigma? What stigma? They don’t know what their homes will cost a week after contract,” Enright says.

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Workforce Training: Engineering A Skilled Workforce

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VIRGINIA’S TRADITION OF TRAINING. Virginia has a longstanding reputation as a workforce pioneer thanks to programs such as the Virginia Jobs Investment Program (VJIP), which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2015. For example, Virginia was awarded $6.9 Terry McAuliffe (left) congratulates Eldor Corp. Since VA Gov.

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The Drone Age

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The two remaining sites were in the middle of heavily traveled air corridors in the East: New York’s Mohawk Valley and Virginia Tech (in a joint effort with Rutgers University in New Jersey). Memo to trick-or-treaters on the spooky country roads in the scenic valleys of NY: that’s not a headless horseman that just zoomed past you.

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Housing, Industrialized: Your Road Map to Off-Site Construction

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Housing, Industrialized: Your Road Map to Off-Site Construction. To assist those interested in making the journey, Pro Builder and the Pittsburgh-based Housing Innovation Alliance initiated a comprehensive “IC Road Map” with the help of a working group consisting of home builders, suppliers, researchers, and other industry experts.

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Leading the Home Building Industry: Pro Builder's 2021 Forty Under 40

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Luke Kinser , 35, Managing Member, Owner, Virginia Builders, Chesapeake, Va. Kerri Woodward , 38, Director of Sales and Marketing, Chesapeake Homes, Virginia Beach, Va. . Off the Clock • Rooting for Virginia Tech football and basketball. Virginia Builders. Nikki James , 38, Studio Manager, Ashton Woods Homes, Dallas.

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FEATURE STORY: 2014 Economic Development Awards

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Because Virginia laws prevented BVU from serving residents directly, the city initially hoped that a carrier would step in and provide broadband. Instead, BVU and its OptiNet division crossed several legal hurdles and gained approval to provide broadband and voice services to residents on the Virginia side of the city in January 2003.

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2012 Business Facilities Rankings Report

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Rounding out the top five in Best Business Climate are Virginia, which is luring major government contractors to relocate their headquarters to the state (Northrop made the move, and VA is courting Lockheed); Florida, where Gov. Virginia maintained its leadership in our Economic Growth Potential category with a second-place finish.

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