Sentences with phrase «major construction efforts»

Nearly a year after Audubon Charter students moved out of their Broadway Street campus in preparation for a major renovation and expansion project there, major construction efforts will begin there Monday and end in time for students to return in the fall of 2014, officials say.

This will require a major construction effort — nearly 4 million 5 - megawatt wind turbines, and nearly 90,000 300 - megawatt solar PV plus thermal power plants, for example.

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Key to that effort so far has been a commitment of $ 12,000 and a staff leader to head the preservation effort by Cornell Cooperative Extension Service of Rockland County, headquartered in Thiells; and Rockland County BOCES, which has committed its vocational education home building students to the actual work effort, as part of a new construction major in historic restoration and preservation instead of concentrating solely on new construction techniques, their emphasis for the past half - century.

Similar arguments are rehearsed each time the state undertakes a major construction project: contractors say the makeup of the workforce is dictated by the construction trades, who in turn say they are making their best efforts to diversify, while minority leaders say not enough is done by way of outreach and recruitment.

While neighborhood residents and preservationists are up in arms over the planned construction of a soccer stadium in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, an aggressive lobbyist effort by Major League Soccer is working the system by targeting everyone from local Community Boards right up to Mayor Bloomberg himself.

Here are major milestones in the life and times of this popular VW: 1934: Hitler orders development of «people's car»: the Volkswagen.1938: Ferdinand Porsche sets the Beetle's final form.1939: Construction of factory begins in Wolfsburg, 100 miles west of Berlin.1941: First Beetle production vehicles come off the line.1941 - 44: Only 1,000 Beetles are produced during World War II because most resources are devoted to war effort.

Increasing the quantity and quality of habitat for pollinators is a major part of this effort — with actions ranging from the construction of pollinator gardens at Federal buildings to the restoration of millions of acres of Federally managed lands and similar actions on private lands.