Sentences with phrase «building landscape in»

«The home building landscape in Ontario is continually changing,» says OBOA President, Matt Farrell.

Not exact matches

Don't worry whether you're «qualified enough» — most of the ideas are about building businesses in landscaping, car detailing or graphics design -; all businesses designed to cashflow.

Massenet said in a statement: «I've felt for a while that I wanted to apply the brand - building experience and network I've gained over my career to today's evolving retail landscape.

It's something of a West Michigan trademark — in Grand Rapids, the names of philanthropic business leaders are imprinted on the civic landscape through the buildings they commissioned, among them the Fred M. Keller Engineering Laboratories at Grand Valley State University.

The dirtiest, most physically demanding, and most dangerous of these jobs — in fields such as construction, landscaping, and building maintenance, for example — are overwhelmingly filled by immigrants, who now account for more than half of all low - skilled workers in the U.S..

My father had a 10 - year plan in mind the day he purchased seven acres to house the building and nursery of Lindenmayer Landscapes outside of Herkimer, N.Y..

In the enterprise landscape, digital literacy is not just about tool competence, but about how well users apply their knowledge to make decisions, cultivate relationships, build a reputation, and mobilize colleagues, teams, communities, and networks.

Shunning the usual practice of sacrificing nature for the sake of gigantic sporting arenas, the Norwegian city urged companies to use natural materials whenever possible, launched a regional recycling program, and stipulated that all built projects had to blend in with the natural landscape.

However, at nearly 63 times current earnings - a whopping p / e ratio, to be sure - even if the firm were to grow its profit to the level of Berkshire - $ 8.5 billion - it would still lack the liquid assets and marketable securities the house that Warren Buffett built has, and it would not have a diversified income stream, making it far more vulnerable to changes in the competitive landscape; a major concern when you contemplate that Google operates in an industry where dramatic shifts consumer behavior can happen overnight.

The rebound in U.S. home building is rapidly changing the forest and building products landscape and is serving as a catalyst for transactions.

Our efforts represent the single largest block of community support in the history of New Orleans, contributing more than 54,000 volunteer hours and investing more than $ 1 million in local projects like painting, landscaping, and building playgrounds.

In an evolving corporate landscape, with an increasingly younger workforce, C - Suite Coach seeks to provide a fun, attainable, and powerful resource for anyone seeking to build a path to the C - Suite.

We're well into 2016 now, and what has changed in the link building landscape?

Cassy Aoyagi, a board member of the LA Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC - LA) and president of FormLA Landscaping, a high - end, sustainable landscaping firm, reminds homeowners that a weekend spent digging in the dirt can yield greLandscaping, a high - end, sustainable landscaping firm, reminds homeowners that a weekend spent digging in the dirt can yield grelandscaping firm, reminds homeowners that a weekend spent digging in the dirt can yield great returns.

Critics, including me, have expressed doubt that building major new nationally oriented «vertical» sites, largely supported by advertising, will work well in the Google / Facebook duopoly - dominated digital ad landscape of 2018.

When I was at ProSEO in London last week, three things seemed to come back in any link building session: create a natural and brand - rich link landscape, find out why people link out or share stuff, and building relationships remains important.

The church has great power and influence in society, and our presence is evident by the vast number of church buildings and Christian slogans that dot our cultural landscape, but few Christians have progressed much past a milk diet of basic Christian truths.

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

Out of these shared convictions and the culture of building they nourished, the architects and patrons of these cities created urban environments and landscapes that were not only extraordinarily beautiful but that also acted as theaters of memory and hope, places that simultaneously referred to and grounded citizens in their origins, the common destiny for which they longed, and the virtues necessary for success in their individual and collective journeys through life.

Designed by Nielsen Schuh Architects, the inspiration was to create buildings that are aesthetically beautiful, sensitive to the environment and in harmony with the landscape.

Designers share where they get their inspiration in rendering buildings and landscapes, which are all crafted from found plant materials.

To reach them, these days, you walk around a chain - link construction enclosure, duck beneath branches in a landscaped area and scramble up onto a low ledge of the aquarium's building.

A proposal for a new parks maintenance building at the north end of Century Park in Vernon Hills has several nearby residents concerned about the new view and changes to the park's natural landscape and aesthetics.

Village trustees said Monday they would consider the River Forest Park District's landscaping and building plan for its new park and shelter in the village's northeast corner.

The Park Board agreed to plan and maintain the landscaping for the new library building and Park District officials had a voice in designing the new library building.

I gave birth to my 4th child at home in April, my best friend gave birth to her first born in my house last month, we got a dozen more chickens and hatched a few of our own this summer, we went to Story Land and to Lake Winnipesaukee on vacation, built a large wooden swingset, landscaped our backyard, and did several other home projects!

Certainly, its high aspirations are reflected in the grandeur of its buildings and the formal landscape between them.

Park district officials say they may still go ahead with plans to landscape and build a fishing pier in the 40 - acre park that straddles Bryn Mawr Avenue just north of Lake Street.

River Forest — Village trustees said Monday they would consider the River Forest Park District's landscaping and building plan for its new park and shelter in the village's northeast corner.

In recognition of National Breastfeeding Month (NBM), each year the USBC hosts a social media advocacy and / or outreach campaign inviting breastfeeding coalitions, member / partner organizations, and individual supporters to join online actions and conversations to build support for the policy and practice changes needed to build a «landscape of breastfeeding support.»

It's just what it sounds like: a stroller built for two that can be used in a variety of landscapes, from smooth pavement to gravel to grass.How does it manage?

It's just what it sounds like: a stroller built for two that can be used in a variety of landscapes, from smooth pavement to gravel to grass.

In that political landscape, Ms Rousseff's inability to build stable alliances added a lot of uncertainty to votes on key bills.

Throughout her 30 year career, she has built an incredible track record of creating and protecting parks, from vest - pocket parks in cities to landscape parks like Sterling Forest.

She said she created the Mattituck - Laurel Civic Association because she saw a need for the community to have a voice in its changing landscape, with increased traffic, new building and proposals that change the landscape, water quality, agritainment and nowhere for young people to work or affordable workforce housing to stay local.

CITY HALL — The sweeping transformation of nearly 6 percent of Staten Island's landscape into the largest city park to be built in more than a century is facing funding and planning uncertainty under Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Bandshell at Forest Park in Woodhaven • $ 300,000 to improve lighting along the shorefront facing Queens in Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island • $ 1.5 million to renovate the baseball fields at Glen Oaks Playground in Glen Oaks • $ 1 million to renovate Hallets Cove Playground in Astoria • $ 975,000 to improve the asphalt field at Hoffman Park in Elmhurst • $ 1.3 million to construct a meditation garden and upgrade Rachel Carson Playground in Kissena Corridor Park in Flushing • $ 322,000 to construct a skate park at Laurelton Playground in Laurelton • $ 850,000 to upgrade Lannett Playground in Far Rockaway • $ 600,000 to renovate Maple Playground in Flushing • $ 1.5 million to install new play equipment and to upgrade the sprinklers and surface at Mauro Playground in Kew Gardens Hills • $ 350,000 for landscape improvements along the Merrick Boulevard Mall in Springfield Gardens • $ 700,000 to enhance the lawn area, install new walkways, decorate pavers, install new benches and plantings, create a new entry and repair the retaining wall at Newtown Playground in Elmhurst • $ 2 million to upgrade to existing benches and equipment in Norelli Hargreaves Park in Jamaica • $ 300,000 for a mall enhancement and tree plantings along the Northern Boulevard Mall between 62nd Street and 102nd Street in Woodside / Jackson Heights • $ 400,000 to renovate Kingsland Homestead in Flushing • $ 3 million for the preservation of the New York State Pavilion in Flushing Meadows — Corona Park • $ 480,000 to replace the aviary mesh and marsh bridge at the Queens Zoo in Flushing Meadows — Corona Park • $ 2 million to renovate the asphalt field at the World's Fair Playground in Flushing Meadows — Corona Park • $ 800,000 to formalize the picnic grove, add gravel pads and grills, install new fences and benches and upgrade the basketball courts in Rainey Park in Astoria • $ 1.5 million for turf and track upgrades at Roy Wilkins Park in Jamaica • $ 1.4 million to renovate Sandpiper Playground in Rockaway Beach • $ 600,000 to renovate the museum building at Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City • $ 500,000 construct a dog run at Triborough Bridge Playground B in Astoria • $ 375,000 for pavers and accent lighting at Tribute Park in the Rockaways • $ 250,000 for site acquisition to add to Udalls Cove in Little Neck • $ 175,000 to improve sidewalk and perimeter of Veterans Grove in Elmhurst • $ 1.6 million to resurface the baseball field and upgrade the play equipment at Vleigh Playground in Flushing • $ 300,000 to support the borough's Tree Stump Removal Program.

Litwin's father, Harry, an immigrant from Ukraine, owned a nursery in Melville, Long Island, and worked as a landscaping contractor for buildings in the New York metropolitan area.

«When you see our unwavering commitment in changing the face of public transportation, committing more funds to providing jetties and expanding access to waterways, please know that we are driven only by the need to build and sustain the needed infrastructure upon which an enduring tourism landscape can stand and outlive our administration and those coming after us,» the Governor said.

Developers in Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn and Queens are required to set aside 20 percent of newly created housing for «affordable» units while developers elsewhere — roughly 84 percent of the city's landscape — can get the benefit without building any affordable units.

I'd love to see Ulster County get serious about tourism and make a real effort (particularly in the Town of Rochester) to get our landscape «tourist friendly» — clean up abandoned buildings, make absentee land owners clean up their property and make us LOOK LIKE WE ARE READY FOR BUSINESS.

In order to achieve this goal, landscape architects have developed so - called «green roofs,» which utilize living plant matter and soil on top of a building in order to absorb, collect and reuse rainwater while preventing run - ofIn order to achieve this goal, landscape architects have developed so - called «green roofs,» which utilize living plant matter and soil on top of a building in order to absorb, collect and reuse rainwater while preventing run - ofin order to absorb, collect and reuse rainwater while preventing run - off.

Weight from massive deposits of frozen nitrogen, methane and carbon monoxide, built up billions of years ago, could have carved out the left half of the dwarf planet's heart - shaped landscape, researchers report online November 30 in Nature.

«I'm interested in what happens to the urban landscape when those who it was built for are not present,» he says.

Built in a dizzying rush by developers to exploit cheap loans and favorable government regulations, these modern ruins now litter the landscape.

Countywide irrigation water savings ranged from 4 percent to 9 percent, with per capita savings largest in medium density environments, or those with a mix of buildings and landscaping.

The grand opening ceremony took place outdoors on a clear, blustery day in this southeastern coastal city, as workers were landscaping and outfitting buildings on the 2 - year - old institute's bayside campus.

We'll meet the scientists who are building maps that reveal the landscape of our grey matter in unprecedented detail.

The analysis looked at different kinds of natural fires, what drives them in various ecosystems, the ways public response to fire can differ, and the critical interface zones between built communities and natural landscapes.

«Of the top 478 events, we identified 144 economically and socially disastrous extreme fire events that were concentrated in regions where humans have built into flammable forested landscapes, such as areas surrounding cities in southern Australia and western North America.»