Sentences with phrase «major public works»

In a country where the roads are the major public works projects in most places, upgrading bus lines to BRT technology could prove to be a more efficient transit solution than building light rails and subways, which require new and expensive infrastructures of their own.

A slew of major public works soon followed.

Kirkeby continued to produce major public works throughout his career, primarily in Denmark, Germany and Sweden.

However, the artist is probably best known for his major public works that have populated beaches (Another Place, 1997), hilltops (Angel of the North, 1997), lakes (Inside Australia, 2003), the roofs of buildings (Event Horizon, 2007 - 16), public squares (One & Other, 2009) and bays (GRIP, 2015).

Installations such as Field (1991, Arts Council Collection), which has been re-made by local communities across the world, and major public works such as Angel of the North (1998, Gateshead), Another Place (2005, Crosby Beach, near Liverpool), One & Other (2009, a Fourth Plinth commission for Trafalgar Square, London) and Exposure (2010, Lelystad, Holland) are amongst the most celebrated examples of contemporary British sculpture.

Bidding on a major public works project to fix once and for all a sinkhole that has plagued an Uptown

Concurrent with Pulse Park Lozano - Hemmer will present a new commissioned work titled Frequency and Volume at the Barbican Art Gallery, London, as well as the solo exhibition Arrays at Haunch of Venison London, followed in November by another major public work titled Under Scan in London's Trafalgar Square.

With other existing solo murals in Miami, San Francisco, Indonesia, and Toronto, Schoultz's inaugural L.A. fixture makes for his eighth major public work.

He was one of a select number of artists invited to create a major public work for the Millennium Dome and the only British artist invited to participate in Japan's Echigo - Tsumari Art Triennial in 2000.

Saint - Gaudens received many significant commissions through his association with White, including his first major public work, a monument of Civil War hero David Farragut that stands in Madison Square Park, New York.

Among these are Negev at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1987; Space of Dragon, Olympic Park, Seoul, South Korea, 1985; Becalmed Beings, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan, 1993; Space of Unknown Growth, Europos Parkas, Vilnius, Lithuania, 1997 - 98; Unrecognized, Citadel Park, Poznan, Poland, 2002; Space of Stone, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey, 2003; and her last major public work, Agora, a sculptural group comprised of 106 unique cast - iron figures measuring over nine - feet tall permanently installed in Chicago's Grant Park in 2006.

Not exact matches

While LGBT inclusion has been a winning stance for companies from a marketing standpoint — several major companies made a public showing of support for LGBT rights during the Sochi Olympics earlier this year — the survey results suggest that companies have some work to do to make employees feel welcomed within their workplaces.

Major construction works at the new independent public secondary school Fremantle College is set to be performed by Perkins Builders under a $ 22.9 million contract.

While it's highly unlikely that someone from a major competitor will be sidled up next to you on a plane or train, remember that you may be working with sensitive information in a public space.

He has conducted public relations for Major League Soccer, the Department of Defense Warrior Games and the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, among other clients; he's also worked, pro bono, in media relations supporting Puerto Rico's victims of Hurricane Maria.

It said the campus will offer «advanced digital technology, open floorplans, a variety of collaborative work areas and easy underground PATH access to other major BMO locations, public transit, and hundreds of restaurants and entertainment options.»

The nitrate work print of the film — which was never shown in public — was given by Cinemazero to one of Italy's major film archives, the Cineteca del Friuli in nearby Gemona, before being transferred to the George Eastman House in order to be preserved with a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, Treasury Board President Tony Clement and International Trade Minister Ed Fast are expected to retain their portfolios, according to government sources, as the Conservatives work to eliminate the deficit, re-engineer the public service and conclude major trade agreements in time for the 2015 federal election.

The government consulted with the same public relations firms that worked with major corporate brands on social - media strategy.

Given that fundamental aspects of how the Internet works are being decided by the PMO, Shade and Moll say it's up to the public to get Canadian politicians «up to speed» on net neutrality the way the American public did in the U.S. To date, there is scarce indication that any of the major parties are thinking about the issue; McArthur says a letter to his Conservative MP in Edmonton didn't even generate a standard response letter.

What's curious about this response is that Zuckerberg elides to mention how Facebook's own staff have worked with the program he's suggesting his company «found now» — as if it had only discovered the existence of the Cambridge University Psychometrics Centre, whose researchers have in fact been working with Facebook data since at least 2007, since the Cambridge Analytica story snowballed into a major public scandal last month.

In the days leading up to the holiday weekend, Coin Center briefed four major DC organizations on how blockchains work and about important considerations for making decisions as they apply to public chains.

The purpose, in Pelosi» s words, is to warn the public that the GOP tax plan «is a scam, a major scam and it» s being presented as something that is supposed to be good for working...

While this in itself would be a major victory for democracy, it is crucial that the government does not stop there, but rather works to fundamentally reform Alberta's political culture in the public interest.»

He worked with local businesses, citizens, government, realtors, and non-profits to revitalize southeast Charlotte, including the major public art project near East Mecklenburg High School, the Embrace sculpture.

They should become major centers of mass communication, carrying on a continuous work of adult education of the public in the letters, sciences, and arts, by printed publications, by motion pictures, and by radio and television broadcasts.

In 1988 each of the major U.S. television networks worked with a major newspaper — CBS News with The New York Times, NBC News with The Wall Street Journal, and ABC News with The Washington Post — in order to produce polls which themselves mightily influenced both politicians and public.

Estevez recently worked on his independent film The Public which he wrote, directed and starred in — but outside that hasn't had a major role since 2012.

We have shown that Betting Against the Public works across the major sports and is statistically significant.

Betting Against the Public works for all major US sports.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

This will increase your winning percentage by 3 % -4 % in the long run, and Betting Against the Public works for all major U.S. Sports (NFL, NBA, MLB, NCAAFB, NCAAB, and NHL).

The Executive Director's Office supervises the work of three major departments (Parks and Planning, Recreation and Facilities, and Finance and Personnel); supervises Golf Maintenance Operations maintaining two golf courses and a driving range; monitors 58 park sites, 23 buildings and almost 3,000 recreation programs; oversees the annual budget (approximately $ 26 million); and directs long range comprehensive planning and public information programs.

In its submission to the government's open public services white paper, the union identifies major problems with Mr Duncan Smith's work programme, where 33 of the 34 contracts went to large private sector providers.

Some of New York State's major transportation infrastructure projects are now benefiting from expanded use of the design - build process — but a costly pro-union rider has been attached to proposed legislation extending design - build authorization to public works financed by New York City, and could set a troubling precedent.

Developing from work he did for the Conservative Party in his Deputy Chairman role, since 2010 [46] Lord Ashcroft has been a major independent public pollster of British political opinion.

John Manzoni, head of the Major Projects Authority, told the public accounts committee earlier this summer that the current head of UC, Howard Shiplee, had been working only part - time after falling ill around Christmas.

So while you won't find any searing revelations about the psychodrama of the Blair - Brown years in «Substance Not Spin», you will find detailed, refreshingly frank, reflections on what worked — and what didn't — during the eight years in which Raynsford grappled with major public policy challenges.

Mr Clarke, who served as chancellor under John Major, wants a return to proper cabinet government, arguing it is essential «to make government work better and to reverse public cynicism about the tacky system of government and politics which New Labour has imposed upon us.»

Another major public investment in the works is Wonderfalls, announced by Governor Andrew Cuomo.

But in his second term, which began in 2014, Mangano worked with former NIFA chairman Jon Kaiman, a former North Hempstead Town supervisor, and the five major public employee unions to end the pay freeze.

Mauro has long been one of Albany's best known experts on budget and public policy issues from his work at FPI and earlier as Secretary of the NYS Assembly Ways and Means Committee, director of Assembly Speaker Stanley Fink's Program Development Group, director of research for the last major revision of the New York City Charter, and Deputy Director of the Rockefeller Institute of Government.

Some academic work has suggested that states with capitals that are distant from major media and population centers are more likely to have problems, due to lack of oversight and public interest.

James Gurling is a senior PR and public affairs man who previously worked alongside John Major's former press secretary at Hanover Communcations and is now a director at MHP Communications, the UK's largest lobbying firm.

Last month, he gave a major speech at Bloomberg, setting out his economic case, based on a Keynesian vision of investing in public works to boost growth.

The summary of desired qualifications goes on to say the executive director should have graduated «from a college or university of recognized standing with major work in hydraulic engineering or business or public administration...»

A major trades council that works closely with City Hall and the construction industry is backing Public Advocate Bill de Blasio for mayor.

Mauro has long been one of Albany's best known experts on budget and public policy issues from his work at FPI and earlier as Secretary of the NYS Assembly Ways and Means Committee, director of Assembly Speaker Stanley Fink's Program Development Group, director of research for the last major revision of the New York City Charter, and Deputy... (read more)

LPCiminelli, whose roots trace back to the founding of the Frank L. Ciminelli Construction Co. in 1961, is one of the largest general contractors in Western New York, with a long history of work on major public - and private - sector projects.

Cindy Adams cryptically claims that another major hooker sex scandal may soon break, and that it involves a public servant who works in a «major metropolitan area» that is not New York, D.C., or L.A.