Sentences with phrase «large road projects»

But with incomes rising at 14 per cent last year, and a state rush to push the economic successes and political attachments out from the coast to poorer «frontier» regions by way of large road projects, China is looking at a car - and oil - heavy future no matter what.

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Perth - based explorer Gold Road Resources will proceed with a pre-feasibility study on its Gruyere project east of Laverton, after conducting a scoping study which found it to be a robust, long life and large - tonnage gold project.

To make matters worse, the remote destination largely lacked pre-existing venues and infrastructure suitable for hosting the games — hence, the $ 10 billion price tag attached to the largest project: a road and railway link built to take passengers from Sochi's coast to Krasnaya Polyana, a mountain resort that hosted the ski and snowboarding events.

Expect eventual success for the One Belt, One Road Initiative — the world's largest construction project, estimated to cost $ 80 trillion dollars — linking the Asian mainland, (including Central Asia) with Europe via -LSB-...]

Expect eventual success for the One Belt, One Road Initiative — the world's largest construction project, estimated to cost $ 80 trillion dollars — linking the Asian mainland, (including Central Asia) with Europe via high speed rail, communications links and vibrant financial trading platforms.

The La Grange Road widening project, one of the largest infrastructure improvement projects in Orland Park's history, according to the village's annual report, «starts in earnest very soon,» McLaughlin said.

He also gave initial funding for several large infrastructure projects, such as High Speed 3 (an east — west rail line across the north of England), Crossrail 2 (a north — south rail line across London), a road tunnel across the Pennines, and upgrades to the M62 motorway.

These Make the Road literacy or training programs are always folded into a larger project of «worker organizing» or «empowerment,» which require recipients to attend political meetings as an implicit condition of getting services that are, in fact, city - funded.

However, he says Labour will borrow to invest in large building projects like new roads if it wins power in 2015.

Europe's largest body of engineers is calling for the High Speed 2 (HS2) proposals to be reassessed to become part of an integrated transport programme of metro, rail, bus and road projects to revitalise the cities of the Midlands and North.

Funding is included in the $ 27 million 2014 Road Project List and Brighton Road is one of the largest projects listed.

Non-profits such as the Fuller Road and Fort Schuyler management corporations have emerged as a focus in U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's allegations that these groups served as vehicles for bid rigging and kickback schemes relating to large construction projects that are part of Cuomo's efforts to use the State University system as a platform for upstate economic development.

Leading Democrats like Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer have warned that this proposal would be insufficient for large - scale projects, and could lead to the privatization of bridges, roads, tunnels and transit systems.

«We've been assured by the administration that the turbulence that we are seeing in the stock market right now doesn't affect the larger project down the road,» said State Senator Tim Kennedy, whose district includes Riverbend.

For many, the story was much worse, and that includes local municipalities who are crippling under large - scale, costly road projects.

The approved funding will be used for several large projects, including Amsdell Road in Hamburg, Goodrich Road in Clarence, Losson Road in Cheektowaga, Girdle Road Bridge in Elma, Lake Avenue in Orchard Park / Hamburg; and Brighton Road in Tonawanda.

Emboldened with their largest majorities in decades, Republicans began the Wisconsin legislative session Tuesday saying they are focused on finding long - term solutions to problems that have long vexed the state such as a projected $ 1 billion deficit in spending for roads and bridges.

In 2009, the IEA published a road map calling for 100 large CCS projects by 2020, but last July, with projects failing to materialize, it downgraded that to just 30.

That will be important for other capture projects down the road, he said, since a large power plant would require multiple injection wells to store all its carbon dioxide.

The project will evaluate the operation of four electric vehicles — two large ones approaching 7 tonnes, and two smaller ones ¬ - within the area bounded by the city's outer ring road.

A small technical pilot scheme has been planned in Trondheim, as well as a larger demonstration project next year involving 200 electric cars on the road between Oslo and Kongsberg.

The Cray cost # 8 million, making its use for road forecasting alone an expensive proposition, even though a large - scale project using all the processors could model up to 2 million vehicles.

The Lost Bird Project follows the road - trip that McGrain and his brother - in - law, Andy Stern, take as they search for the locations where the birds were last seen in the wild and negotiate for permission to install McGrain's large bronze sculptures there.

*** Christine Rodriguez is a Youth Power Project member of Make the Road New York, the largest grassroots community organization in New York offering services and organizing the immigrant community, and a member of the Mayor's Leadership Team on School Climate and Discipline.

The so - called Silk Road project being developed in collaboration with BMW is still a go, and Autocar reports that a larger sports car using a Le Mans - derived hybrid drivetrain combined with supercapacitor technology is on the way.

They offer a solid foundation for a multitude of projects thanks to a large under - hood compartment ready to accept any number of engine configurations, a short wheelbase that works well for drag or road racing, a roomy interior, and a robust chassis and suspension.

Australia is a recognized leader in employing P3s to support a wide array of infrastructure projects, allowing smaller government investments to leverage much larger amounts of private capital to support the construction of roads, bridges, transit systems and more.

More small improvements include a one - piece welded exhaust system that uses one big muffler branching into two tailpipes to reduce squeaks and rattles; self - adjusting clutch linkage; headlights that project a beam that is wider near the car and extends 10 percent farther down the road; changes to the climate - control system that result in faster heating and more durable air conditioning; new 16 - inch aluminum wheels; and a larger torque converter on the V - 8 automatic.

Volvo will play a leading role in the world's first large - scale autonomous driving pilot project in which 100 self - driving Volvo cars will use public roads in everyday driving conditions around...

Projects in Begur Road is enviably large apartment's aspect superior fittings and designed to the most of the demanding specifications..

There are several large new housing construction projects in process, as well as improvements in roads and other infrastructure.

The Orchard Fire Road trail improvement project is part of a larger effort to increase awareness of and access to parks and trails in Marin City.

«Tourism is currently the country's second largest industry and this has huge significance for the economy as US$ 80 billion worth of investment into key infrastructure projects including airport expansion, railways and roads comes to fruition in the next ten years,» remarks Walsh.

Already featuring the largest track roster of any recent racing game, Project CARS will continue to dominate with an additional 15 tracks consisting of road courses, historic locations, and modern circuits.

It will be the first Naruto movie in two years, after Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie, and is part of the larger «Naruto Shin Jidai Kaimaku Project» (Naruto's New Era Opening Project), marking the 15th anniversary of the original manga.

Festive Road's hands - on and inventive projects range from costumed carnival parades, the building of large - scale structures, to shadow puppetry and science.

Another famous art project of Walker's is We Joked That Under the Paving Slabs There Was Gold, which consists of a picture of a collapsed road with a large river of orange, red, and yellow covering parts of the image.

Over the past six and a half years, Ingleby Gallery's public art project Billboard for Edinburgh has invited 26 artists to make a large - scale work for Edinburgh's city centre.The Billboard for Edinburgh project was initiated in 2008, when the Gallery moved to its new premises on Calton Road and transformed a defunct billboard on the end wall of the building.

Martin Ingham, Adapt 6 Mechanical ventilation with heat recovery in new homes Task Group final report, Zero Carbon Hub, 2013 7 Indoor air quality investigation in code for sustainable homes and Passivhaus dwellings, Grainne McGill et al, Queen's University, Befast 8 Performance project: large - scale monitoring study of demand controlled MEV in occupied dwellings http://bit.ly/1ITy0WY 9 Performance of a demand controlled mechanical extract ventilation system for dwellings: simulations and in - situ measurements I.Pollet et al, Renson, Bircholt Road, Maidstone, & Ghent University.

China's GreenGen project, backed by world's largest private coal company Peabody Energy, appears further down the road to knowing if it can make the technology work.

«Our study suggests... [the] initiative will not significantly reduce deforestation in northern Sumatra and will have little impact on orangutan conservation,» David Gaveau of the University of Kent, UK, and the Wildlife Conservation Society Indonesia Program told environmentalresearchweb, «because firstly a large amount of forest inside the proposed REDD project area is protected de facto by being inaccessible; and secondly much of northern Sumatra's lowland forests will remain outside of REDD and will be exposed to the combined expansion of high - revenue oil palm plantations and road networks.»

Meanwhile Brazilian companies continued to invest in projects that would drive large - scale deforestation in other Amazon countries, including dams, energy exploration, industrial agricultural developments, and new roads, suggesting that even though deforestation has been ebbing in recent years, there may be leakage to surrounding countries.

Victories were seen on four continents: in Bolivia a draconian response to protestors embarrassed the government, causing them to drop plans to build a road through Tipnis, an indigenous Amazonian reserve; in Myanmar, a nation not known for bowing to public demands, large protests pushed the government to cancel a massive Chinese hydroelectric project; in Borneo a three - year struggle to stop the construction of a coal plant on the coast of the Coral Triangle ended in victory for activists; in Britain plans to privatize forests created such a public outcry that the government not only pulled back but also apologized; and in the U.S. civil disobedience and massive marches pressured the Obama Administration to delay a decision on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring tar sands from Canada to a global market.

Their cities, suburban towns, outposts, road networks, canals, and irrigation projects attest to their large and civilized (meaning agricultural) populations far in excess per square mile than your average hunter - gatherer cultures and their 1 person per square mile population densities spanning the most forbidding deserts, steppes, mountains, and jungles.

In many cases, such areas would be difficult to defend by dikes and dams, and such a large sea level rise would require responses ranging from potentially large and expensive engineering projects to partial or nearcomplete abandonment of now - valuable areas as critical infrastructure such as sewer systems, gas lines, and roads are disrupted, perhaps crossing tipping points for adaptation (Kwadijk et al., 2010).

It's one of the largest cookstove projects certified under Gold Standard, reducing the same amount of emissions as taking nearly 400,000 cars off the road for one year.

Collins» recent work includes advising the University of Huddersfield on numerous major construction and engineering projects, assisting Leeds City Council with a large infrastructure project involving the construction of a new road, and handling multiple projects for Hanson Group, including new builds, and work concerning regeneration, mining, demolitions, plant modifications, IT installations and emission control matters.

While few large firms have public finance practices, her large firm afforded her the chance to help public entities raise money to accomplish important projects, from building roads and bridges to expanding hospitals and schools.

Representing the Inter-American Development Bank in a number of private - sector project finance transactions in various Latin American jurisdictions, including the $ 500 million Ecovias Dos Imigrantes toll road project in the state of Sao Paulo, the largest transportation project financing in Latin America.

While most daily activities will focus on your area, there are also times when all the interns come together to work on larger projects, such as harvesting potatoes, repairing the road after a large storm, or helping with various maintenance tasks such as weeding and pruning around the farm.