Sentences with phrase «costs of large projects»

The board directed staff to draw up two sets of plans, for a $ 68,000 playground and $ 98,000 playground, to present to the District 54 school board in hopes that school officials will agree to share the cost of the larger project.

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Today, The Machine, now part of HPE, is the largest R&D project in the history of Hewlett - Packard; Whitman estimates the total cost at more than $ 500 million.

It's one of the country's largest oil and gas producers, but, says Cheng, price differentials between Canadian and world oil prices, low natural gas prices, cost inflation and project delays caused investors to get antsy.

Boucher says the government's role right now is to absorb some of the difficult, non-recurring engineering costs to make it easier for private investors to take on a large moon prospecting development project.

For a large project like the proposed Site C dam or smart meters the utility defers some of the costs and accounts for them later when they are balanced by revenues from the project, he said.

«Our view to is to take this all the way through and take the material to market, but knowing there is the potential to have another multi-decade minelife in the next 200 - 400m inside this project would make it one of the largest, highest grade, lowest cost potential lithium producers in the world.

And while most of management's effort to realize value is focused on the Donlin Gold project, it appears to us that investors have totally discounted NOVAGOLD»S 50 % interest in Galore Creek, which could someday be one of Canada's largest and lowest - cost copper mines.

The cost of token - holder relations and maintaining an active community, the cost of needing now to execute on their projects in the public eye, and the cost of needing to «mature» as a business quickly to responsibly handle the large amount of funds raised.

At a cost estimated at about $ 3 million, according to Tayler, the plans to build a leisure - style water park is the largest project the park district has tackled since opening the 90 - acre, $ 1.6 million Ron Beese Park on the south end of town in 1992.

The project which is estimated to cost $ 100 billion, and if completed would be the world's largest hydroelectric plant is more than twice the power generation of the Three Gorges Dam in China.

According to Dr. Bawumia, a large chunk of the money has been wasted through over-bloating of project cost and corruption.

He said there were many lessons to be learnt from «this sorry story», namely that the DoH must engage in «closer and sustained scrutiny» of large - scale capital investment projects and demand appraisals where costs spiral out of control.

It emphasised that large defence equipment projects represent a huge proportion of the costs, citing the cancellation of the Nimrod aircraft and the delay of the Astute submarines as costing the taxpayer # 3.4 billion and # 2 billion respectively.

But the construction portion of the project, estimated to be 90 percent of the $ 12 million cost, is contingent on a change in state law to allow municipalities to use special «design - build» contracts, in which the design and construction phases are awarded to one company, rather than in separate bids as is typical in large public works projects.

This is especially important in dealing with large projects, such as reconstruction of roadways and bridges that can cost millions of dollars.

According to Dr. Bawumia, a large chunk of the money has been wasted through over-bloating of project cost and other corrupt practices.

The total cost of the upgrade project, known as the Expanded Very Large Array, is around $ 100 million, far less than it would cost to build a comparable observatory from scratch.

She estimates that her project, a large - scale analysis of the gene profiles of individuals, will end up costing around a million dollars — research that «could have been done in an academic lab if the resources [were] available.»

Before NASA kicks off the design and construction of its next large - scale space telescope, an independent review board will evaluate the scope and expected cost of the project, the agency announced Thursday (April 27).

Firstly, the financing of large individual projects is difficult in a market economy in which CO2 is still not priced at its true environmental cost.

This project would serve as a proof of concept to show the time and cost for a much larger effort, which would develop assays to the remaining 99 percent of all human proteins.

But NEON has suffered a series of self - inflicted and external wounds since construction began in 2011, resulting in project delays, a large projected cost overrun, and several changes in senior leadership.

«This assumption that people are optimistically biased is being used to guide large infrastructure projects, with the aim of managing expectations around how much projects will cost and how long they will take to complete.

Becoming compliant with the proposed ruling could, according to one HHS official, drive up the cost of doing large - scale trials or surveys because of the extra work involved in ensuring that projects meet the standards required.

It argues that Australia needs to be part of projects like the VLT because the cost of building and maintaining ever larger telescopes is too much for one country.

A «triple subsidy,» say enviros The resulting data should help reassure state public utility commissions — which have rejected many large projects out of cost concerns — about the viability and accuracy of the technology, Finley said.

Project manager Dan Bauer, of Fermilab, says it cost about $ 30 million to set up and operate the project, bare - bones money compared with, say, the $ 8 billion that the Europeans are spending on their new particle accelerator, the Large Hadron CoProject manager Dan Bauer, of Fermilab, says it cost about $ 30 million to set up and operate the project, bare - bones money compared with, say, the $ 8 billion that the Europeans are spending on their new particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Coproject, bare - bones money compared with, say, the $ 8 billion that the Europeans are spending on their new particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider.

The highest priority, according to a blue - ribbon panel that made the recommendations, is to buy 5 % stakes in the international Next Generation Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter Array project in Chile, at a total cost of $ 90 million.

The project, overseen by the California Department of Transportation and expected to cost at least $ 10 million, is essentially a large tunnel.

Lacking any official declaration of the project's cost or how it would be funded, some researchers bristled at the prospect of a large new federal initiative that could take money from traditional grants for individual scientists, especially at a time when NIH faces a massive budget cut.

Where the costs and benefits of projects are measured in US dollars the concerns of those with the most dollars loom largest.

Together with industry partners in the M — era.Net project BIOGRAPHY, which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), they have developed a printing process which makes it possible to produce large numbers of graphene biosensors in a cost - effective roll - to - roll process.

Is the «business as usual» approach — subsidizing fossil - fuel supply and nuclear energy and large hydro projects, maintaining low energy prices to consumers by keeping environmental and political costs «external,» propping up oil supply by every available means — part of the solution or part of the problem?

Specifically, the bill would require NSF to reanalyze how much every large research project would cost within the first year of the start of construction.

Much of the project's past cost growth ironically stems from a «free» upgrade that came in 2012, when the National Reconnaissance Office gifted NASA with a spare Hubble - size mirror larger than the one the space agency planned to build for WFIRST.

Such language stems from a changing environment, mainly connected to the growing cost of related projects, with a corresponding need for large numbers of international funding partners.

Prof. Dr. Peter De Jonghe, group leader at VIB and Antwerp University; one of the project leaders of the European EuroEPINOMICS consortium; and member of the Genetics Commission of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE): «Combining data sets of three large consortia has proven to be a productive and cost - effective strategy to unravel the molecular genetic background of severe epilepsies in childhood.

Although the technical details and the cost estimates of the project are yet to be announced, a concept design released during the Humans to Mars conference in Washington, D.C., Wednesday depicted a structure, built using two Orion crew capsules — which NASA and Lockheed are currently building — linked to a larger habitat and Mars laboratory module.

Response: Our best cost estimate indicates that a SMR - 160 plant can be installed turnkey by Holtec for less than half of the projected cost of the large nuclear plants on per kilowatt basis (being built in the US, France, and Finland today).

Shadow Complex comes to Xbox Live and more than projecting the revival of a genre out of use by industry it surfaces the difficulty of organizing a large - scale production at a low cost.

In our analyses, the cost savings of blended schools outstrip their differences in physical size, and these savings are not canceled out by the economies of scale that larger projects provide.

For instance, in 2002, after a spring of difficult cost - cutting, administrators in Los Angeles discovered that the school district had a substantially larger ending balance than projected.

The study found that while school district consolidation among the very small school districts could result in cost savings, the consolidation of the large metropolitan area districts would likely increase costs, said Greg Branch, deputy director of the Texas Schools Project, which oversaw the research pProject, which oversaw the research projectproject.

But it remains unclear whether improvements of the kind identified in Project STAR would justify the costs of reducing class sizes - particularly if it were attempted on a large scale.

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Each project's only a small (depreciation) hit to earnings, vs. the promise of a much larger earnings boost from lower costs.

Using your home equity is one of the most cost - effective ways to finance a large, extensive home improvement project.

If you are planning a mid-size to large home improvement project that will cost over $ 5,000, a line of credit or personal loan could meet your needs:

According to hotel.info, the leading online hotel reservations service for over 210,000 hotels around the world, the economic crisis and associated corporate pressure to reduce costs has created a clear trend for increased use of low cost online hotel reservation tools.Especially large corporations that make high numbers of bookings are currently using the present economic situation as a reason to move from planning to use online hotel reservation tools towards actually implementing such projects in - house or at least promoting the use of existing online applications to save costs.