Sentences with phrase «largest public infrastructure»

The Golden State recently passed legislation authorizing the sale of $ 2.7 billion in bonds that will be used to fund the fastest train in the nation as well as the largest public infrastructure project.

The new international airport is one of the largest public infrastructure works in a century.

The 4.8 km - long bridge linking Westchester County to the New York State Thruway across the widest point in the Hudson is one of the largest public infrastructure projects underway in the U.S. and a model of the latest engineering.

636 key companies and 197 large public infrastructure projects participate in the scheme.

Not exact matches

Austin infrastructure is strong with an international airport and, unlike other large Texas cities, a strong public transit system.

In that statement, Injong Rhee, chief technology officer of Samsung's mobile communications business, said the company looked at a several companies in the public and private cloud infrastructure space and picked Joyent because of its management team, expertise and» robust cloud technology validated by some of the largest Fortune 500 customers.»

But there is no need for political clashes to convince large trade surplus countries in East Asia to keep more of their hard - earned savings home - instead of financing deficits of much richer countries - to improve their infrastructure and public services.

The chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, told National Public Radio last month that air strikes could have the objective of targeting senior leaders among the Islamist militants, safeguarding infrastructure or «blunting attacks» by large numbers of militants, possibly to counter an assault on Baghdad.

For Canadians the SkyDome became a monument to the inability of the public sector to deliver large scale infrastructure projects on time and on budget.

Large multinational customers prefer a provider that can give them infrastructure at national or global scale, and if you're a company with one or two regional locations, you're mostly stuck competing with public cloud giants like Amazon and Microsoft for the dollars of local small and mid-size businesses.

Non-residential building approvals have increased to be above the levels of recent years and there is a large pipeline of public infrastructure investment to be completed (Graph 4).

Retail spending remains subdued following the large increase last year, and commercial construction is weak outside of the boost from public - sector infrastructure spending.

«The UK's current financial situation means that there is likely to be limited opportunity for large public spending infrastructure projects and attention may have to shift to user charging and private sector investment in new infrastructure.

Although large sections of the public are concerned, there has not been the sort of anger and mobilisation necessary to halt this developing infrastructure.

Large portions of the public transit infrastructure are extremely dated.

In doing so, they are heeding Boris Johnson's calls for a «citizen's wealth fund»: last October, London's mayor proposed pooling some of the UK's 39,000 public pension funds into a single investment fund large enough to reduce the country's dependence on foreign investment and close its infrastructure financing deficit.

The Board's concerns include that «large holders of Puerto Rico debt will seek to raise their stakes and collateralize their debt with the island's public infrastructure: roads, bridges, sewers, water systems, and other public assets.»

One of the largest infrastructure projects in the history of the U.S. is well under way, the new Tappan Zee Bridge, and the public still has no idea how all of the building expenses will be met.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's $ 145.3 billion budget proposal unveiled yesterday proposes spending the state's $ 2.3 billion windfall from court settlements to house the poor and homeless, freeze Thruway tolls and make large investments in public infrastructure.

Sue Percy, CIHT Chief Executive said: «We all know that the UK's current financial situation means that there is likely to be limited opportunity for large public spending infrastructure projects and we will need a mature debate about the role of user charging and private sector investment in new infrastructure.»

Even though their ridership is nowhere near the Big Apple's, upstate New York's largest public transit face many of the same challenges their big - city counterparts at the MTA deal with on a regular basis, including aging infrastructure and increased demand for service.

Right now, the priority is to restore full employment and maintain high levels of co-investment in large infrastructure projects, sharing risk and reward equally between private and public sector.

Thruway Authority Acting Executive Director Matthew J. Driscoll said, «Governor Cuomo recognizes that dependable infrastructure is a game - changer for travelers, businesses and the public at large.

The researchers from a consortium of U.S. universities, with collaborators from industry and the public sector, are performing the tests on the UC San Diego shake table, the largest outdoor shake table in the world.The facility is part of NHERI@UCSD, an experimental facility at UC San Diego funded by the National Science Foundation as part of its Natural Hazard Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) program.

He also wants CNRS to promote scientific literacy among the general public and French policymakers and «lobby for a greater role of France» in European decisions on large research infrastructure and funding calls.

In large coastal cities, new homes and public infrastructure could be built on artificially raised land.

Denver, Colorado About Blog Panorama Consulting Solutions specializes in enterprise consulting, infrastructure consulting and enterprise resource planning (ERP) consulting for mid - to large - sized, private and public sector organizations across the globe.

However, as we have all become more aware since the recent high - profile security issues faced by public organisations and large companies, e-safety isn't just about having anti-virus software in place; it is vital to ensure a school's complete internet infrastructure is appropriate and secure.

School facilities is second only to highways as the largest sector of public infrastructure spending, but it's been more than 20 years since the federal government conducted a comprehensive review of the nation's school buildings.

One in six people in America spend their day in a K - 12 school and schools represent the largest public building sector in America, yet the last Government Accounting Office evaluation of school infrastructure is from 1995 and the average American school is 44 years old.

«Even though K — 12 schools are the largest public building sector in the U.S. and represent the second largest category of public infrastructure investment, there is no current dataset at a national level, and many states could not report on the size of their public school inventory,» said Mary Filardo, author of the report and executive director, 21st Century School Fund.

In 2016, our flagship initiative is the Federal Permitting Dashboard, an online tool for Federal agencies, project developers, and interested members of the public to track the Federal Government's permitting and review process for large or complex infrastructure projects.

While the largest freight railroads generally have access to investment capital — a record $ 30 billion in 2015 — most intercity passenger and commuter rail operators depend on public funds to pay for or finance infrastructure and equipment.

The Permitting Dashboard (www.permits.performance.gov) is an online tool for federal agencies, project developers and members of the public to track the federal government's permitting and review process for large or complex infrastructure projects.

Importantly, the Administration's surface transportation reauthorization proposal, the GROW AMERICA Act, would build on current support for public and tribal lands, including creating a new program to support construction, reconstruction, or rehabilitation of large, nationally significant transportation infrastructure within or accessing federal or tribal lands, including national parks and forests.

Librarians from both the public and academic systems could work with OverDrive to update its infrastructure and blend it in with their technologies and also take advantage of its connections with large publishers.

As the fifth biggest company in the world in the library sector, working with more than 1000 public libraries and 3,000 school libraries throughout Scandinavia and the UK, Axiell has vast experience with creating and managing large - scale digital infrastructure projects.

«In fact, there may be diseconomies of scale for larger public pension plans because of the complexity of implementing their investment strategies, which include contracting out for external experts — a practice that has become increasingly popular, with plans investing more in non-traditional assets such as real estate, infrastructure, and private equity,» said the report.

Since going public in 1998, Enterprise has grown into one of the largest energy infrastructure companies in the world with approximately 50,000 miles of natural gas, natural gas liquids, crude oil and refined products pipelines and 260 million barrels of storage capacity.

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To get close to his targets, 47 has to infiltrate large public spaces full of people and infrastructure: a Paris fashion show in a mansion, a coastal Italian town full of tourists, an exclusive Japanese day spa brimming with celebrities.

Showing here in London for the first time in a public institution, Carlos Garaicoa reflects upon «the city» — its limitations, potential and possibilities — as a physical infrastructure, social network and political space in this exhibition comprised of large - scale installations, sculptures, video and photography.

This is at best a half truth, because GM has invested large amounts of money to a) persuade large segments of the buying public that it wants a particular sort of car; and b) establishing a design & manufacturing infrastructure to build the sort of car that they've persuaded their market to want.

# 478 James: This is at best a half truth, because GM has invested large amounts of money to a) persuade large segments of the buying public that it wants a particular sort of car; and b) establishing a design & manufacturing infrastructure to build the sort of car that they've persuaded their market to want.

Once the nation is committed to action, the government and private sector could concentrate their thinking on whether very large - scale infrastructure investments would need to be supported with public funds ---- projects such as solarization of the grid, new coal power plants with carbon capture and sequestration, etc..

Retrofitting the infrastructure isn't a sexy project that gets the public engaged, but it's essential to prevent our growing vulnerability, said Waldie, a public information officer for Lakewood, California, who wrote Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir, about living in the world's largest suburb where bean fields were divided into small tract houses.

We need to sustainability proof the future EU budget and make it serve the public good, promote social inclusion and strengthen European values, instead of wasting taxpayers» money on dirty fossil fuel investments, harmful and outdated farming practices, and large scale infrastructure projects that damage our health, destroy our environment, and jeopardise the safety and prosperity of our children.

· Ten Strands is working to leverage existing California state infrastructure and education initiatives within the nation's largest public school system to bring environmental literacy to its 6.2 million K - 12 students.

Today, China — one of the largest providers of public financing for infrastructure worldwide — agreed to work towards strictly controlling public investment flowing into projects with high pollution and carbon emissions both domestically and internationally.

Moreover, there is very little public infrastructure in place in North America to support CNG vehicles other than fleet vehicles with sufficiently large fleets to make providing their own fueling stations economically sound.