Sentences with phrase «more local construction»

If successful, SPARCC supported initiatives could lead to reduced energy burdens, repaired homes and demand for more local construction jobs.

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But she's keen to emphasize that innovation is about more than just technology, citing the example of a local female entrepreneur in the construction industry who couldn't find workboots for women and started a company to manufacture them.

Staten Island's key industries — local - market sectors like health, education and retail trade — tend to be less susceptible to sharp economic downturns than more cyclical sectors, like manufacturing, construction and finance.

The gas projects have encountered somewhat less opposition, in part because of the perceived lower environmental damage from a gas pipeline or tanker accident, but also because the economic fundamentals of gas exports provide more benefits to the local economy because much of the gas will come from BC fields and the need for construction and operation of LNG facilities on the coast.

It would jeopardize hundreds of billions of dollars each year in new debt financing, and would push more construction and labor costs onto local taxpayers.

January 25, 2018 — MILFORD, MA — Today, Consigli Construction Co., Inc. hosted more than 40 teachers, guidance counselors and administrators from 11 local high schools at its Milford headquarters for a professional development workshop in partnership with the Blackstone Valley Education Foundation and the Association of General Contractors (AGC).

For construction projects worth more than $ 50,000, for example, SUNY requires colleges to contact «a minimum of five» local contractors directly.

«Government could deliver a much bigger, and more beneficial, boost the construction industry by removing the cap on local authorities» housing investment which would help councils build up to 60,000 new homes.»

The mid year financial report released by Cuomo's budget office says options to close the gap include more cuts to state agencies, delaying payments to local governments and schools, suspension of some construction projects, and even borrowing money short term to pay for operating expenses.

As Political Director of the New York City Central Labor Council, Carrión has forged deep partnerships among 300 local unions from every trade, occupation, and public and private sector of the New York economy, representing a wide spectrum of workers, including teachers, truck drivers, operating engineers, nurses, construction workers, electricians, firefighters, retail workers, janitors, train operators, bakers, and many more who are the face of today's workforce.

The IP report indicates the original text detailed a requirement for more than 50 years experience in local construction, a criterion which would rule out other companies.

On a more local level, Steck took aim at the defeated construction bond issue put up by the North Colonie school system in December, echoing criticisms that the polling location was limited to one spot.

Minorities made up 11 percent of the local construction unions in 2012, according to a census conducted by LPCiminelli as part of the Buffalo schools reconstruction project; that census does not provide a more detailed breakdown by racial group.

The chip fabrication project had been mired in stop - and - go traffic for more than a year, local officials said, beginning in November 2015, when the state missed a deadline to begin soliciting bids for a developer to oversee construction of the chip plant.

«It's not right to see these numbers and only have small totals for African Americans,» said Charley Fisher III, chairman of the Contract Compliance Review Committee, an organization recently formed to advocate for more diversity on local construction projects.

The labor group represents more than 125 local unions and over 150,000 rank and file members in the construction industry.

«Program Enhances Employment Opportunities» In honor of our local Veterans who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan Oneida County's Lead Primary Prevention (LLP) Program will make available two Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) training slots at no cost to returning vets seeking employment in construction, County... Read more

The measure has enabled the investment of millions of dollars into more than fifteen local construction projects in recent years.

The city must take this risk or face the prospect of more residents without jobs and more skilled construction workers traveling elsewhere for work, said Ricardo Gutierrez, business representative of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 494 in Milwaukee.

Ulster County Executive Mike Hein confirmed to the New Paltz Times last week that after more than a year of planning, which included several meetings and site visits with a local community Bridge Replacement Advisory Committee, site preparation and construction of the Carmine Liberta Bridge will begin next month, soon after the May 1 New Paltz Regatta.

Ken Volk, senior vice president at Macerich, said in a statement that «the Green Acres Mall project creates 670 construction jobs, more than 800 permanent jobs, and significant local sales tax revenue.

It also demands the passage of laws guaranteeing renters an attorney in housing court, a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage, more construction projects employing union workers and local residents, more supportive housing for people with HIV, and an end to former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's «cluster - site» housing — where the city paid landlords $ 3,000 a month to put up homeless families, often in deplorable conditions.

Erie County government construction and infrastructure projects of $ 250,000 or more must employ local workers, and 20 percent of the work must be done by workers who are either poor or from poor communities, according to an executive order signed Wednesday by County Executive Mark Poloncarz.

The mayor acknowledged that some local business interests opposed today's City Council action with the argument that new construction will cost more.

Each semester, every Build SF student gets the chance to work for a leading local firm, choosing from fields including architecture, engineering, interior design, landscape architecture, historic preservation, contracting, construction, and more.

«In 2008 alone, state and local governments spent more than $ 66 billion to improve the overall quality of school facilities, and another $ 400 billion is owed in school improvement and construction bond debt.»

For more than 15 years, a successful partnership between local school districts and the state has overseen the construction of safe and secure classrooms for 1.3 million - plus children and modernized facilities for over 3.4 million more.

(A) In order to secure increased flexibility to respond to the varying needs and local conditions within the State, and in order to permit more effective and interrelated planning and operation of its REHABILITATION programs, the State may submit a consolidated REHABILITATION plan which includes the State's plan under section 101 (A) of this ACT and its program for persons with developmental disabilities under the Developmental Disabilities Services and Facilities Construction Amendments of 1970: Provided.

More than 300 jobs are expected to be created during the major reconstruction of the bridge, with a local firm, St. Louis Bridge Construction Company, at the helm.

According to the Utah Transit Authority the Sugar House Streetcar project is expected to create an estimated 700 construction - related jobs in the near term, and add more than 7,500 new permanent jobs to the local economy by 2030.

These features provide detailed traffic information on accidents, construction and road closures, plus local and national weather forecasts, fuel prices and more.

This brief podcast looks at the important role PCMS can have in both active and passive speed control strategies within a work zone... read more State and local DOT staff charged with developing and maintaining an overall temporary traffic control plan, construction engineers, the owner - agencies and contractors who are responsible for implementing TTC plans, and field staff responsible for ensuring compliance with TTC plans.

Municipal bonds: More than 1 million municipal bonds are issued by states, cities, and other local governments to pay for construction and other projects.

Initially, Isola Bella was little more than a barren strip of rocky land inhabited by local fisherman but in 1630 the Borromeo family, influential members of Piedmont's aristocracy, began the construction of a grand residence (a «palazzo») and gardens on the island.

In 2005, the artist opened lesser new york in her Williamsburg loft, which was a response to Greater New York (2005) but it was lesser; it was a greater response to the lesser limits of the art world that she saw reflected in PS1's concurrent survey; this lesser exhibit / installation was organized under the auspices of a «fia backström production,» a lesser production of curated ephemera such as press releases, invites, posters, and so on culled from found materials and the work of a greater local network of friends and peers; the lesser aesthetics of dejecta, pasted directly onto the walls, reflects a greater decorative pattern, not unlike Rorschach images of a lesser art industry itself within a critique of a greater institutional relationship to art production; as such, the lesser display of curated ephemera (from nonartists and artists alike) not only comments on the greater vortex of art and capital, but also serves as a lesser gesture toward something like a memorial wall, not unlike a collection of posters on the greater Berlin Wall, or a lesser improvisational 9 - 11 wall, or, more recently, a greater Facebook wall, or the lesser construction wall surrounding the Second Avenue gas explosion in the East Village, all pointing to a lesser memorial for the greater commodified institution of art consumption; whereas in Backström's lesser new york each move repels consumption by both the lesser value of the pasted paper and its repetition, which dispels the greater value of precious originals; so the act of reinstalling lesser new yorkten years later at Greater New York — the very institution that rejected her a decade earlier — speaks to the nefarious long arm of Capitalism that can morph into an owner of its own critique; so that lesser new york is greater than its initial critique, greater than a work of institutional critique: it is a continuous institutional relationship, a lesser critique that keeps on giving in its new contexts; the collective spirit of artists working together playfully is lesser, whereas the critique of how artists can imagine working alongside the institution is greater, or vice versa; the lesser gesture of a curated mixed - media installation in one's home with no clear identification and no commercial validity becomes untethered when it is greater, and this particular lesser becomes greater in the Greater New York (2015) context; still, the instabilities of the organizing systems by Backström continue to put pressure on both the defining features of art production in both the lesser context and the decade - later greater one; further, the greater question of what constitutes an art as a lesser art becomes a dizzying conundrum when the greater art institution frames the lesser to be greater, when the lesser is invested in its lesser relationship to the greater.

She said she thought of the I - 10 as «a public amphitheater,» which, in one of the stranger ironies of this place, is basically true: despite the stream of blight accumulated over the decades by the freeway's construction, the locals have more or less reclaimed the space, painting murals on the concrete columns, making do with what's there.

When Tom Lloyd, a black sculptor whose geometric, programmed - light constructions had been well exhibited elsewhere, was chosen to inaugurate the museum's opening, the selection confirmed the feeling of some local blacks who feared the Studio Museum would be nothing more than «downtown art brought uptown,» a tiny satellite of the white world.

-- Limiting the construction and use of the least - efficient coal - fired power plants delivers more than 20 % of the emissions reduction and helps curb local air pollution.

Besides having volunteers travel to Nicaragua to build Earthships, several locals were included in the construction process as well in hopes that they will then reproduce more Earthships and model the concepts in structures throughout the community.

More local builders might even offer the option of a work - trade with you and give the option of being involved, alongside them, in the construction of your home.

We are pleased to recognize the positive impact with over $ 18 million in supplies, equipment, utilities and fuel sourced from local businesses during the construction phase and more than $ 20,000 contributed to local organizations to assist in their missions.»

During construction, operation and maintenance, 18 Mongolian subcontractors and more than 3,800 workers — 95 % of them local — were engaged in the project Considering how much it means for our country and its people, as well as for the development of our renewable energy sector, our project is a breakthrough.

To add more homes, California would need to adopt something like the failed SB 827 proposal to rewrite local zoning codes and allow for denser construction in already - developed areas.

The community has also benefited from construction jobs related to the project, creation of two full time jobs at L.P. Gill, and lower and more predictable energy costs at the local ethanol plant.

More than 100 local and environmental groups have urged FERC to immediately halt all construction on the line «to ensure the safety of communities along the pipeline route.»

After the implementation of the IGCC via local construction codes it will be interesting to see if more buildings will become LEED - certified since building owners and designers will be mandated to follow a process similar to the rating system, or whether there will be less demand for LEED certification since most buildings will have to follow similar mandates anyway.

Beyond getting nationwide coverage in the Washington Post, CBS News, The Daily, and more, and receiving local acclaim in the Washington City Paper's «Best of 2013» edition, we've had a tremendous number of visitors actually come out to see our lot since construction kicked off last July.

You are right on with this comment, my concern for building more efficiently is that it is possible to build energy efficiency into a structure and do so affordably, however the market today tells us that we have to have this or that to green build a home when we do not have to have such things, everything we need is already within the local marketplace of construction materials.

In Florida alone, lawmakers have already filed more than 20 bills seeking to preempt local authority on issues including oil and gas regulations, construction standards for abortion clinics and whether a town can declare itself a sanctuary city.

Furthermore, with the construction industry responsible for more than 15 percent of global GDP, improving buildings is also sound economic policy: It can benefit livelihoods, create new jobs in clean technologies, and increase local infrastructure investment.