Sentences with phrase «costly than building»

The wholesale conversion of our transportation system is every bit as culture - shaking and probably much more costly than building jillions of renewable energy sources.

But water efficiency projects and programs tend to be less costly than building new infrastructure to increase water supplies.

Research suggests that flooding from sea level rise will prove more costly than building barriers to protect coastlines

Franklin said renovation of the 75th Street pool would be more costly than building a water park.

Curiously, repairing the device could prove costlier than building it, set at $ 279.

Not exact matches

Riding on existing track and / or piggy - backing on someone else's pipeline is a lot less costly and quicker than trying to build your own.

Plus, it's significantly more difficult and costly to build custom hardware, which has to be just right when it's launched, than it is to roll out software that can be tweaked and updated continually.

Rather than building costly specialized infrastructure dedicated for the top video sites and charging high prices for this access, ISPs and network providers should focus on how to segment video traffic for fast delivery to publishers of all sizes.

Ultimately, people will gravitate towards closed rather than open primaries in my view: (i) open primaries would need state involvement so are a deeper proposition (you need to run them concurrently and they would be too costly for the parties if done properly); (ii) vested interests may well prevail if the proposed reform is not building on the current system (as indeed they have in the Tory party where they experimented with this quarter - heartedly).

One of the corporation's most important goals — the razing of the toxic bank building at 130 Liberty St. — is five years late and five times more costly than originally planned.

Destiny USA is again proposing to build a hotel across the street from its giant Syracuse shopping mall, but its newest plans call for a smaller, less costly hotel than the one it designed two years ago.

Syracuse, N.Y. — Destiny USA is again proposing to build a hotel across the street from its giant Syracuse shopping mall, but its newest plans call for a smaller, less costly hotel than the one it designed two years ago.

Here's what happened: For the first century of the electricity business, the power plants were costlier and less reliable than the grid, so it made sense to build a bunch of big power plants backing each other up through the grid.

Also, the new codes could, in certain cases, make lightweight cold - formed steel buildings less costly to construct than those made of materials such as timber, concrete or hot - rolled steel.

With more than $ 200 million, the foundation also built political support across the country, persuading state governments to make systemic and costly changes.»

It posed two questions: (1) are larger high schools less costly to build than smaller schools and (2) what contextual variables predict cost?

Reports suggest the pint - sized Rocketman was canceled in part because its compact dimensions would require building it on a totally different platform than the existing Cooper models, which would be costly.

[3] It sold in low volume (less than 15 % of the HSC engines built) and was costly due to the tooling changeover required for the taller engine block deck height.

As an added bonus, these programs are not only less costly than feeding and raising the kittens in the shelter, they present an opportunity for the shelter to build on their relationship with the community by engaging them in the direct lifesaving of «bottle babies.»

It means planting trees and restoring wetlands, rather than building a costly new water treatment plant.

And so around the world — except in Trudeau's Canada — nations are once again turning back to inexpensive coal rather than pouring more money into costly «renewables,» and coal plants are being built at five times the rate that old plants are being decommissioned.

It is less costly and more effective to consume radically less energy and emit less CO2 by design, rather than to meet higher energy demand with building mounted «Zero - Carbon» renewable generation.

but again, some / many could tend to be structured as incentives that would have a market response, rather than orders), but if the libertarian were willing to support these things, they might be able to encourage lawmakers to actually do sensible things rather than «greenwashing» or building «CFLs to nowhere» or whatever problems could arise (if a larger political majority supports some overall goal, then the legislators might be under less pressure to cut costly deals to win - over special interests or opponents!

Custom - built software solutions often end up being more costly and taking more time to develop than initially predicted, causing a public sector legal department to wait for months or even years for a costly system that may not meet their needs.

Permanent insurance is more costly than term because it builds cash value and is designed to last a lifetime.

This coverage is less costly than other types of life insurance as there is no cash value build - up.

As we've discussed in earlier articles, life insurance policies that build cash value, such as whole or universal life, are more costly than pure insurance term policies because part of that additional cost goes into building cash value.

Houston, Texas About Blog The Foreign Policy Alliance works to build support across the political spectrum for a U.S. foreign policy that emphasizes diplomacy, law, and cooperation, rather than costly and counterproductive armed intervention that needlessly puts U.S. military personnel and innocent civilians in harm's way.

Investment in a research process that is participatory, in both «methodology and method», is rewarding and sometimes more important than the outcome.30 Participation can empower communities and is recognised as an outcome in itself.31 Community participation in research delivers social and cultural validity when inquiries are aligned with the needs and priorities of those being researched, and better external validity of findings for generalisability.3 Achieving this through PR may be more costly in the short term but in the long term builds health equity32 and facilitates translation of research into policy.3

This report build the case that investing in children early, is less costly than spending money in the state prison system.

What's more, simple, symmetrical Foursquare homes were less costly to build than more complicated Victorians.

After almost a decade of finding «creative ways» to build more affordable housing — more condos rather than costly low - rise houses, and suites that now average just 767 square feet compared to 908 square feet in 2006 — developers fear they are hitting a wall.