Sentences with phrase «existing buildings ratings»

The university has also signed an agreement with the USGBC to use LEED for Existing Buildings ratings to LEED certify 25 of its existing buildings over the next five years.

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Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

In today's volatile environment, it's a good idea to consider building hedges to existing stock and credit allocations with the help of bonds that are more sensitive to interest rates.

Newly built homes are also more expensive than comparable existing homes, so higher mortgage rates may make them less attractive, especially to buyers on the margins or those who have more trouble qualifying for a mortgage.

Eight existing home visiting programs met the minimal legislative threshold for federal funding: Early Head Start, the Early Intervention Program, Family Check - up, Healthy Families America, Healthy Steps, Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters, Nurse - Family Partnership, and Parents as Teachers.40 In August 2011, the Coalition for Evidence - Based Policy built upon the government's review by evaluating the extent to which programs implemented with fidelity would produce important improvements in the lives of at - risk children and parents.41 Through this review, one program was given a strong rating (the Nurse - Family Partnership), two were given medium ratings (Early Intervention Program and Family Check - up), and all other programs were given a low rating.

Current plans for the 138,00 - square - foot building on Bedford Avenue and Union Street would allow developers at BFC Partners to build a recreation facility inside the armory; market - rate and affordable rental apartments on top of the existing structure; and a row of private condominiums BFC would own and, presumably, sell.

Members of the State Assembly grilled NYCHA Chairman John Rhea Friday concerning the public housing agency's controversial plan to build market - rate housing alongside existing low income developments on the Lower East Side and elsewhere in Manhattan.

AAAS is the first and so far the only building in Washington, D.C. to achieve the gold level of certification under the LEED for Existing Buildings (LEED - EB) rating system.

USGBC recognizes four levels of green - building performance — certified, silver, gold, and platinum - level achievement — across a half - dozen rating categories, recognizing excellence in new construction, commercial interiors, existing buildings and more.

@Timothy Hursley AAAS has earned one of the highest marks awarded to existing green buildings: a LEED Platinum EB rating from the U.S. Green Building...

Building a new casino on American Indian tribal land, or expanding an existing one, coincides with higher income and slightly lower rates of being overweight or obese in Native American children living nearby, researchers report in the March 5 JAMA.

At the same time, if the caloric surplus is TOO small, muscle will either not be built at all, or it will be built at a rate so unbelievably slow that it might as well not even exist in the first place.

Here's a quote: «Lactoferrin: Lactoferrin found in foods such as yogurt and kefir will stimulate new bone growth while preventing further breakdown of existing bone tissue, lactoferrin enhances both the growth and the activity of osteoblasts (the cells that build bone), and reduces the rate of bone cell death by 50 to 70 percent and decreases the development of osteoclasts, the cells responsible for breaking down bone.»

This project has been awarded a BREEAM Excellent rating, the Building Research Establishment's Environmental Assessment Method, which provides a holistic approach to measuring and improving all types of new and existing buildings.

In 2008, USGBC accepted the School District of Philadelphia as a participant of its LEED in Existing Schools Pilot Program, and the district selected Thurgood Marshall to pursue certification under the LEED 2009 for Existing Buildings: O&M rating system.

Crucially, an overall school quality rating can be easily added to the state's existing system by building off the work that has already been completed — it would not override or eliminate any of the progress made by the State Board of Education.

While Connecticut's privately owned charter schools left the legislative session with a higher reimbursement rate for each student, more money for school equipment, and funds to expand the number of charter schools, Governor Malloy and the legislature failed to come up with the money need to maintain existing services at Connecticut's public magnet schools, let alone fill the extra magnet school classrooms that have been built and are ready to be used this coming September.

In today's volatile environment, it's a good idea to consider building hedges to existing stock and credit allocations with the help of bonds that are more sensitive to interest rates.

Notes about the apartment loan rates shown in the chart above: The rates shown here are from one West Coast regional lender for loans on existing apartment buildings between $ 2.5 — 5.0 M.

I own a house in Santa Barbara... I purchased a piece of property 12 miles south of Santa Barbara and will build a new house in about 2 years... In order to build the new house I will take out a mortgage on my existing house... Interest rates are pretty attractive now and it might make sense to take out a mortgage now...

Effective Coverage works to build relationships with highly rated underwriters who believe that insurance exists to pay claims and protect the policyholder.

In the past, a high correlation has existed between the rate of home purchases and buildings and interest rates.

You also can use it to build a new home or refinance an existing loan to reduce the interest rate associated with that mortgage.

I could build a complicated simulator which allows for different interest rate outcomes, offsetting plans, tax rates etc but it feels like something like this should already exist.

Notes about the apartment loan rates shown in the first chart above: The rates shown here are from one West Coast regional lender for loans on existing apartment buildings between $ 2.5 — 5.0 M.

This was no small task, given the existing dilapidated animal facility built in the 1970s, the 65 % euthanasia rate for the nearly 8,000 pets that had been entering the facility annually, and a very limited contract of $ 1.1 million to operate.

Given advances in the rate of DNA sequencing, the full genetic code of key crops grown in the two regions could be built very quickly, and the identities and function of their genes could be determined by relying on similarities to the existing Arabidopsis, rice, and sorghum sequences and the emerging maize sequence.

However, these trajectories are constrained by tremendous socio - economic inertia (e.g., existing energy, transport and built infrastructures) that limits the rate at which CO2 emissions can be reduced and climate change avoided.

The label, called the Home Performance Index (HPI), goes well beyond the existing building energy rating (BER) system to look at a wider range of issues that impact the quality and sustainability of new residential construction.

By tying the mortgage interest - rate buy - down proposed in our Plan to specific energy reduction targets and homeowner investments, three highly beneficial and desired results are achieved: 1) new demand for Building Sector jobs is immediately generated, benefiting not only the Building Sector, but all the industries and sectors that support the Building Sector, 2) a homeowner's monthly mortgage payments and energy bills are significantly reduced, providing disposable income and making it much more likely that they can meet their payments, and 3) creation of a new $ 236 billion per year renovation market that does not currently exist.

The document contains sections mapping out how LEED credits correspond to WELL «features» in each of the three LEED rating systems for new and existing buildings and interiors: BD+C, O+M, and ID+C.

This guidance document gives an overview of the initiative Nearly Zero Energy Hotels (neZEH), which aims to support the European accommodation industry in accelerating the rate of refurbishment of existing buildings into Nearly Zero Energy Buildings (NZEB), providing technical advice to hoteliers for NZEB renovations, demonstrating the sustainability of such projects and challenging further large scale renovations through capacity building activities, showcasing best practices and promoting the frontbuildings into Nearly Zero Energy Buildings (NZEB), providing technical advice to hoteliers for NZEB renovations, demonstrating the sustainability of such projects and challenging further large scale renovations through capacity building activities, showcasing best practices and promoting the frontBuildings (NZEB), providing technical advice to hoteliers for NZEB renovations, demonstrating the sustainability of such projects and challenging further large scale renovations through capacity building activities, showcasing best practices and promoting the front runners.

Energy efficiency plays a unique role as building block # 4 in the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) proposed Clean Power Plan, which sets carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions rate targets for existing power plants by state.

* The Advanced Nuclear («AN») Facility consists of two nominally rated 1,117 MW Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear power units built at a brownfield (existing nuclear facility) site.

There are now six LEED Canada rating systems, including LEED for Commercial Interiors, LEED for Core and Shell, LEED for Existing Buildings, LEED for Homes and LEED for Neighbourhood Developments.

[3] Each state has interim targets it must meet beginning in 2020, and the EPA proposed that states use a combination of four «building blocks» to achieve the emissions reductions: (1) improving the efficiency (heat rate) of existing coal - fired power plants; (2) switching from coal - fired power by increasing the use and capacity factor, or efficiency, of natural - gas combined - cycle power plants; (3) using less carbon - intensive generating power, such as renewable energy or nuclear power; and (4) increasing demand - side energy - efficiency measures.

Having such differentiation may be misleading towards consumers, as would be the case if there were separate Energy Performance Certification ratings for new and for existing buildings.

Using the LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance rating system as a framework, this workbook will help your team implement a green existing buildings program and establish a culture of perfExisting Buildings: Operations and Maintenance rating system as a framework, this workbook will help your team implement a green existing buildings program and establish a culture of perBuildings: Operations and Maintenance rating system as a framework, this workbook will help your team implement a green existing buildings program and establish a culture of perfexisting buildings program and establish a culture of perbuildings program and establish a culture of performance.

The EPA states, «To develop the rating, EPA collected data on energy use and operating characteristics from a large number of existing data centers, including both stand - alone facilities as well as data centers located in office and other types of buildings.

The United State Green Building Council (USGBC) is the embattled national leader with its third - party rating systems known as LEED that gives green guidelines for new construction, existing buildings and other types of construction.

As a first step in launching LEED v4.1, we've released a beta version of the LEED rating system for Existing Buildings.

In a joint press release explaining their unanimous decision, the three Mississippi Public Service commissioners said they seek a solution that «eliminates ratepayer risk for unproven technology and assures no rate increase to Mississippi Power customers,» and that they want Mississippi Power, the Southern Company subsidiary that built Kemper, to consider rolling back existing rates.

The upshot of the recent study is that organizations who have an «investment - oriented» view of email marketing - that is, as a tool to build and nurture long term relationships with existing clients and customers - are finding that, even during a recession, the ROI from email marketing continues to increase as measured by higher open, clickthrough and conversion rates.

The Upper Tribunal's decision in Revenue and Customs Commissioners v J3 Building Solutions Ltd [2017] UKUT 253 (TCC)(«J3 BS») perhaps belatedly seeks to clarify the law in relation to the zero rating of construction works to existing buildings although relevant statutory provisions changed in 1995.

The Upper Tribunal's decision in Revenue and Customs Commissioners v J3 Building Solutions Ltd [2017] UKUT 253 (TCC)(«J3 BS») perhaps belatedly seeks to clarify the law in relation to the zero rating of construction works to existing buildings although relevant -LSB-...]

Having built a customer list of 10,000 in her first business, she created Loyalest which specialises in helping professional services increase their conversion rates by maximising existing web traffic with personalised sales and marketing automations.

An EPC provides an energy rating for a building based on the performance of the structure and its existing services.

Effective Coverage works to build relationships with highly rated underwriters who believe that insurance exists to pay claims and protect the policyholder.

Lenovo's Vital Moto Mod came out of left field, to be honest, but we're glad it exists: the accessory pairs with any Moto Z phone and offers important health stats through the built - in finger insert, including heart rate, respiratory rate, Pulse Ox, core body temperature, and systolic and diastolic blood pressure.

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