The View from Abu Dhabi

I've spent the last couple of days in Abu Dhabi at the World Future Energy Summit ... in the US and internationally--building our pipeline while prudently managing our construction schedule based ... construction starts on new wind and solar projects. However, there is very strong optimism about the long [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 05:29:55

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PBS&J Acquires Peter R. Brown

Orlando Business Journal reported that Peter R. Brown Construction, one of Tampa Bay area’s largest private general contractors, ... architecture, engineering, and construction services as well as program management consulting, is among ... Florida.Peter R. Brown Construction was ranked as one of the fastest growing companies by Tampa Bay Business [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 17:25:55

'Hedge Funds Look at Northern Arizona Land as an Investment'

Rolling Hills Ranches, LLC has engaged experts from the Master Planned Communities group of Kitchell Construction to provide planning oversight for ... and Nevada. Kitchell Contractors provides construction management and general contracting services to private sector clients. Kitchell Corporation also owns American Refrigeration Supplies, an air [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 09:45:00

March Professional Trailbuilders Conference in Asheville, NC

Set for March 15 - 20, 2009 in Asheville, NC, the Professional Trailbuilders Conference will feature seminars, expositions, demonstrations and meetings for those that manage or build trails. Topics include design and construction, land management, trail planning, contracting, advocacy and other related matters [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 18:34:49

Instrumentation Engineer (Saudi Arabia)

Instrumentation Engineer. Qualification : Graduate of Bachelor of Science in Electrical & Instrumentation Engineer Has 05 years experience in construction and management, detailed work experience. Good command of the English language, oral and written Able to handle a multi discipline projects which includes financial responsibility [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 07:58:20

Stadium News - Sort of

As anticipated, the county's vote on the contracts have been pushed back to February ... is not guaranteed, as a two-thirds majority of county commissioners must approve the construction and management agreements. The reason: The Marlins hired contractors without going through a county bid [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 14:46:20

Featured Free Publications - January 2009

Here's the list of featured magazines and publications for January 2009 I choose to you:1. Inside-ERP Finance Accounting Solutions Comparison GuideIndustries – Data Management, Finance ... Construction, Engineering, Industrial & Manufacturing, Mechanical, Purchasing & ProcurementGeographic [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 22:24:00

Statement Of Purpose

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE NAME : Student Name Field : Ms. Construction Management Semester : Winter 2006 Since times prehistoric to the dawn of millennium mans ever lasting journey to develop the latent creativity with in his introvert mind has always [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 15:40:21

THE CONTRACTING OUT CRISIS AT THE NEW YORK CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY…replacing unionized civil servant architects and engineers with non union consultants causes serious problems with public housing project construction and renovation work

from CITY LIMITS: AUDIT: NYCHA CAPITAL PROGRAM IN TROUBLEAn internal report by the inspector general over the Housing Authority says management lapses and cost overruns will severely curtail plans to repair the city’s aging stock of public ... s in-house construction management team that normally oversees jobs. NYCHA was attempting to improve [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 04:04:00

QA-QC Mangers (Saudi Arabia)

Practical experience in construction projects. Worked as a QA/QC Manager. He shall be responsible for the QA/QC activities including establishing, reviewing, updating Project Quality Plans for Procurement, Construction and Commissioning phase, review / monitor at Site [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 13:41:05

ADMINISTRATION & DOCUMENT CONTROL

.fullpost{display:inline;}PT. Petrotechindo Utama (PTU) ... of design, procurement and construction management / supervision. Currently, in association ... engineering and design consultant is appointed as the Engineering & Project Management Consultant [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 16:51:00

Legislation Inching Forward on Great Falls National Park Designation

The Great Falls of Paterson, New Jersey are a natural wonder just miles from downtown Manhattan, ... in 2006 after conducting a study, concluding that construction and management costs of the 109-acre [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 15:05:00

Foreman-Civil / Mechanical / Electrical (Saudi Arabia)

Foreman-Civil / Mechanical / Electrical. Qualification : Diploma in Civil Engineer Has 04 years experience in construction and management, detailed work experience. Good command of the English [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 07:58:20

Covalence Ethical Ranking 2008

Press Release | Geneva (Switzerland) ... of production, Social sponsorship, Waste management, Information to consumer, Eco-innovative product ... ; Construction & Materials: Holcim; Financial Services: Goldman Sachs; Food & Beverages: Unilever [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 23:40:41

Six Key Points of a Domestic Building Energy Management Plan

Nearly one third of GHG emissions come from heating, cooling and lighting our homes and places or work – much more than it could be ... Management Plan: *A National Energy Building Code for new construction and major retrofits [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 10:39:19

Singapore role in Emirates eco-city?

Talks under way for firms to be involved in futuristic Masdar CityJessica Cheam, Straits Times 20 jan 09;ABU DHABI: ... recently.'Singapore has a lot of knowledge in water and waste management. It is at the forefront ... and zero carbon footprint.Under construction 17km from Abu Dhabi, it was planned by renowned British [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 00:51:00

Enerkem Commercial-Scale Biomass and Waste to Biofuels and Biochemicals Plant Entering Start-up Phase

Enerkem Inc., the developer of a thermochemical (gasification and catalytic synthesis) process to produce synthetic fuels from biomass and waste ( ... to produce 360 liters (95 gallons) of ethanol. Construction on the plant began in October ... and the Company’s management. In June 2008, the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, signed a 25-year [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 08:34:17

While Gaza is hammered and the NAACP complains about Ole South Gowns in the Inaugural, strategic challenges loom

During Reagan's presidency the US Navy numbered almost 600 ships, with 11 or more carrier task groups.Today we have less than half that ... to stem piracy. On Dec. 31, Japan's Asahi Shimbun reported from Beijing that construction of the first ... version of the U.S. Aegis battle management-equipped [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 19:18:00

What to Look For in a Professional Remodeler

by Gordon T. Mayer Just the thought of a building project is enough to stress people out. But it doesn’t have to be that way ... to you will have a much higher success rate when it comes to seeing your plans through. Good Management ... wish to consider someone more closely aligned with your project. Every construction project needs [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 01:19:47

Satyam Is Approached By Potential Suitors: Board Member

Satyam Computer Services Ltd has been approached by potential buyers, a member of its new board said on Tuesday, ... of cash on the books did not exist. Engineering and construction company Larsen & Toubro, which ... ," said K.K. Mital, head of portfolio management services [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 15:56:46

Legal News - LexBlogosphere: 1/14/09

Legal News - LexBlogosphere: 1/14/09 Today's LexBlogsphere roundup has a few posts that start to look ahead ... ; Sullivan on their Federal Construction Contracting Blog Holiday Overtime - Somerville attorney Frank ... Another Banner Day at FDA - Management consultant Cliff Mintz of BioInsights Inc. at his Bio Job Blog [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 00:32:39

Nuclear Energy Roundup: Kazakhstan Uranium Production, Japan Breeder Reactor and More

1. The Department of Energy's (DoE) Office of the Inspector General (IG) ... weapons. So depleted uranium needs to have careful management. 2. Japan's Monju fast breeder reactor ... capacity by 2015, including the construction of capacity to supply the planned Angra 3 unit. The first [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 18:01:57

CurbedWire: New Robertson Apartments, Metro Student Pass

2009.01.foot.jpg ROBERTSON: The latest construction shot of a new apartment building at the corner of Robertson and Olympic, not an intersection where we spot a lot of new multi-unit residential construction. Not a lot to tell you about this project, but it's being managed by Califico, which also has a lot of commercial [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 01:35:52

‘We’ll make BIA’s services amongst the best’

‘We’ll make BIA’s services amongst the best’ Sujit John & Anshul Dhamija | TNN Bangalore: After seven years in Bangalore, Albert Brunner, ... years in the aviation industry, holding management positions at Swissair and Swissport before joining ... . In fact, if we had started construction in 2002, as initially thought, things would have been very [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 04:10:00

REGULATORY COSTS OUTWEIGH BENEFITS

The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently proposed legislation to regulate construction work in confined spaces, such as sewer ... from safety professionals and 104 hours from management employees. Given that safety professionals [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 13:39:58

->>IT Compliance Supervisor in PT Petrosea Tbk

.fullpost{display:inline;}PT Petrosea Tbk has been designing, ... as one of Indonesia's leading engineering, construction and mining contractors. Thanks to the imagination ... Petrosea with access and support to world class management and project delivery systems which allows [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 17:05:00

How many EarthCraft Homes are being built in your market?

Have you heard of an EarthCraft home? EarthCraft Virginia provides a new construction certification process that serves as a blueprint for healthy, ... indoor air quality through the use of managed fresh-air intakes. Thus, projects are more energy ... and its mechanical systems, while still allowing for fresh air intake, provides a tighter building [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 20:29:52

links for 2009-01-20

Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill 2009Introduction of requirement to support e-petitions by local government in England & ... Resources, ePublishing, Library Management Systems, Content Management Expo, Web 2.0 Technologies and Search [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 18:01:48

Banks Lowering the Boom on Small Builders

The New York Times reports tonight on how banks are clamping down on credit to small homebuilders, with the result that many will go out of business ... is, we’re seeing conditions in home construction and home finance that are the worst since the Depression,” said Steve Fritts, associate director of risk management policy at the Federal Deposit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 04:51:26

Convenient facts about an inconvenient truth, part 2

By Jon Rynn Greenhouse gases come in two basic flavors: carbon dioxide from fossil fuels, and emissions from land use -- agriculture, forests, peat bogs, and waste management. Fossil fuels are primarily used for energy in three sectors ... , there is so much variation in manufacturing and construction -- and the data is so hard to collect [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 07:05:15

Business Manager (Qatar)

Your responsibilities: You will create and develop the market in Qatar ... support to projects during the design and construction phases. You will ensure that new contracts [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 13:41:05

Contrasting Nexus and Artifactory

Today’s Maven users have two solid choices when it comes to repository managers: Sonatype’s Nexus and JFrog’s Artifactory ... and scalability. In this post, I contrast some of the design decisions made in the construction of Artifactory [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 21:07:18

How to spend $825 billion

By Kate Sheppard Enviros are heartened by much of what they see in the newly released summary of the House's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, ... buildings to make them more energy efficient." Another section of the bill aims to "modernize roads ... for activities supported by other economic recovery funds, such as retrofitting of buildings, green [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 07:05:15

Don't Chu know

By Kate Sheppard LCV president Gene Karpinski and DOE-secretary-designate Steven Chu. Groups around Washington, D.C., marked Martin Luther King Jr ... .; and Washington Gas Energy Services, along with the city's government. They distributed home weatherization ... of President-elect Obama's plan to create hundreds of thousands of jobs by investing in [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 23:28:00

Toontrack Superior Drummer 2.0 review

The current arms race in software instruments is nowhere more evident than in software drum machines, in large part because modern music is so dependent on percussion in all its forms, meaning that there’s always plenty of demand for new drum tools.  DR-008 seemed like quite an instrument when I acquired it just a few years ago [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 19:48:44

Here we have some contacts and other important characters for Mr. Eric Moore, the engineer / Human Resources Representative / cybernetic killing machine.Makio Yen, Mitsuhama “Special Recruiter” A loyal and dedicated corporate climber, Makio-san found a niche in hiring special agents – shadowrunners – for whatever job Mitsuhama finds itself in need [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 04:10:49

Or, Maybe The Audience Is Simply Smarter Than You Are

Audience Atomization Overcome: Why the Internet Weakens the Authority of the Press. Take a sheet of paper and make a big circle in the middle ... ) engineers: 61 computer programmers/consultants/systems analysts: 47 management: 46 military: 36 ... /economists/taxation/insurance: 24 construction/electricians/plumbers/carpenters/contractors: 23 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 16:25:49

Product Review: ColorMunki From X-Rite

Written by T. Michael TestiTo paraphrase an old Beatles song, "Everyone has something to hide except me and my ColorMunki!" What do I mean? It is the hidden colors that exist in your photo, and because of any number of reasons, don't show up either on your monitor and/or on your printer, because they are not calibrated correctly and together [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 00:30:00

Bits and Bobs – Mid January ’09 Edition

The Answer, My Friend … – Wind Farm Off Cape Cod Clears Hurdle is the story from the “NY Times” the other day ... have liked to ask him was how TERI and others are addressing the cooking smoke that causes such extraordinary damage to health throughout the developing world and, very much not incidentally, exacerbates [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 16:22:36

Skyrocketing Interest in Careers in Social Entrepreneurship and Start-ups Evidenced by MIT Sloan School “Tech Trek”

We are currently witnessing a shift in the job market away from the more traditional MBA path, ... at MIT’s Sloan School of Management embark on a “Tech Trek,” visiting companies of interest in San ... The students visited us in our San Francisco office, which was under construction at the time [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 12:39:17

When Will the Recession End?

NEW YORK – As hundreds of fourth-quarter earnings reports stream in this week, Wall Street's reaction will turn on companies' answers to one question: When will the recession end? "Not soon" is what the market heard last week. Big banks posted ugly numbers and told investors they were still struggling with rickety balance sheets [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 02:22:20

Rednulgi

Dolphins tickets Im Nordica hot rod skis Chad michael murray backgrounds Court bismarck north dakota Earn miles Paula dorf cosmetics Peugeot ... calculator mortgage calculators m Religious cross charms Lathe tool angles Home business seeker ... Pull out couch mattresses Carolina charleston mazda south Communion pew banners Free startup home [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 05:29:10

Jobs That Obama's Stimulus Program Will Create

by Tara Weiss Tuesday, January 20, 2009 provided by They'll mostly fall within five main areas and 22 specific job titles ... of his economic stimulus plan is to create 3 million new jobs in the next two years. Less than 20% of them will be government jobs. What exactly, then, will these jobs be? Career Web site Jobfox has analyzed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 18:25:49

How to Achieve Success With Affiliate Marketing On The Internet

by Stephanie Porter Affiliate marketing is a way of earning money through your personal website by promoting someone else’s products ... because you do not know how to build a website never fear. There are many website building programs ... marketing plan you will be making a great living in no time at all. You can see how affiliate [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 08:00:40

Senior Project Manager

Power System Engineer for Dublin We are looking to recruit an Electrical Power System Engineer for a private-owned company based in Dublin. Education and experience: A relevant Ms. level Engineering or Construction degree, preferably ... to the Production Management Manage internal project team and interface with other departments [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 16:11:42

A Political Climate Change

RADICALGRAPHICS.ORG Future generations will probably regard the Bush administration as the most environmentally destructive presidency in history. But it will not just be for the reasons fresh on our minds today — namely the rollback of many major environmental laws of the last four decades [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 17:36:35

Posts about Home business as of January 20, 2009

Seller Communications Binder - realsolutionsblog.com 01/20/2009 Sellers of real estate generally have one complaint when it comes to their agent - ... products, … of Solar Night Industries. Accelerate Your Business With The Modern Energy Plan by SNI ... poor communication. You’ve heard the stories from sellers about how an agent listed their home [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 19:12:37

NEW YORK CITY CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL APPOINTS NEW PRESIDENT - Jack Ahern, the business manager of Operating Engineers local 30

from CRAIN’S NEW YORK BUSINESS:Jack Ahern: Organizing his worldNYC Central Labor Council head will work to protect jobs, ... has successfully negotiated hundreds of contracts for the 4,000-member Queens-based local, including ... officials together last year following several high-profile construction accidents.“He knows people [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 23:32:41

A Selection of Excerpts from GREAT POWERS: America and the World After Bush By Thomas P. M ... into global dominance, naturally felt the need to propose all manner of new rules. But in our haste ... international crisis to announce our latest new rule set for global order. Sometimes our new rules were [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 17:56:11

Stimulating!

Stimulating! The US House unveiled an $825 billion, two-year stimulus plan today, crafted by the Obama transition team and House Democrats ... on that investment. Scientific Research • National Science Foundation: $3 billion, including $2 billion ... of higher education and other scientists, $200 million to repair and modernize science and engineering [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 02:06:19

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