Kelli Delozier, VP of Real Estate Management, IDI (Q2 / Spring 2013)
You might think landscaping an industrial property is fairly simple — a few shrubs here, a tree or two there. In reality, professional landscaping for Class A buildings is an art and science that requires careful planning, correct installation, and strict maintenance.
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Jim Marchese, Associate, Stantec and Chuck Rudderow, Associate, Stantec (Q2 / Spring 2013)
Building owners and facility managers can reap the benefits of using building information modeling (BIM) long after construction is complete.
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Dan Probst, Chairman of Energy and Sustainability Services, Jones Lang LaSalle (Q2 / Spring 2013)
Smart-grid technologies could not only prevent or alleviate outages, but also save companies money while capturing and marketing wasted energy.
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Laura Orlich, Associate, SSOE Group (Q2 / Spring 2013)
Volkswagen of America earned LEED® Platinum certification due in part to recycled and regional materials and construction waste management.
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Area Development Magazine Special Presentation (Q1 / Winter 2013)
Although the survey results show no dramatic upswings in new facility or expansion plans, there are noted changes in site selection priorities – perhaps as a result of the lackluster economic recovery.
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Steve Stackhouse (Q1 / Winter 2013)
By offering great rates, reliable service, energy-efficiency measures, and attentive service, public power companies are creating a win-win situation for their customers as well as the communities they serve.
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Will Steffens, Principal, Sugarloaf Associates LLC (Q1 / Winter 2013)
Mission critical and data center site selectors and operators must be aware of the many utility variables that will impact the site location decision.
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Alexander Frei, Director, Business Incentives Practice, Global Business Consulting
, Cushman & Wakefield (Q1 / Winter 2013)
The editor of Area Development magazine recently discussed the latest developments in the oil and gas industry and their economic impact with Alexander Frei, Director of the Business Incentives Practice at Cushman & Wakefield of Illinois.
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Dan Calabrese (February 2013)
Nevada was largely built by people who don’t mind taking risks with their money. So it’s ironic that one of the state’s leading economic growth opportunities at the moment is coming from data centers, an industry that sees in Nevada an opportunity to avoid risk.
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Warren Kirshenbaum, Founder, The Cherrytree Group (Directory 2013)
Those wishing to rehab an historic building can take advantage of various tax credits, while also building good will in the community.
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Chris Leary, AIA, LEED AP, Principal, KlingStubbins (Directory 2013)
Aileron Therapeutics, a Cambridge, Mass.-based startup, and Novartis, one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, have each recently repurposed older structures, creating unique and appealing headquarters buildings.
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John K. Borchardt (Directory 2013)
Increasing numbers of existing industrial buildings are being renovated to reduce energy costs by using new nanotechnology-based coatings.
These coatings make it possible to reduce energy bills without major construction costs.
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Area Development Online Research Desk (December 2012)
A study conducted by NERA Economic Consulting in Washington, D.C., finds that exporting natural gas would benefit the U.S. economy even if it led to higher domestic prices for the fuel.
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Jones Lang LaSalle (November 2012)
As the importance of business intelligence rises for corporate real estate and IT departments alike, so does the need for common data standards.
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Mark Crawford (November 2012)
Respondents to Area Development’s 26th Annual Corporate Survey (Published Winter 2012) ranked energy availability and costs seventh among the factors, with 84. 8 percent considering this factor as “very important” or “important.” And, the greater a project’s consumption of energy, the more important the availability and total cost of energy becomes in the final selection decision.
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Craig Guillot (November 2012)
With the unpredictability of global weather patterns (as evidenced by Hurricane Sandy, which battered the U.S. Mid-Atlantic coast causing billions of dollars of damage) it's more important than ever for businesses to assess the potential impacts of power outages and have contingency plans in place.
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Mali R. Schantz-Feld (Fall 2012)
The Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, and Coast Guard have each committed to deploy one gigawatt of renewable energy on or near its installations by 2025.
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Steve Stackhouse (Fall 2012)
The natural gas boom is a "game-changer" sparking a "manufacturing renaissance."
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Mark Crawford (September 2012)
Kern County is developing a reputation for growing high-tech industries such as wind and solar power, aerospace, and distribution/logistics that need highly skilled workers.
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John K. Borchardt (August 2012)
A series of increasingly demanding Navy biofuel tests culminated in July 2012 with a task force of U.S. Navy ships and aircraft operating off the West Coast powered by biofuels.
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