Mark Crawford (Location USA 2012)
Foreign companies are finding plenty of opportunities to invest in manufacturing across the country, including steel fabrication, advanced materials, information systems, semiconductors and electronics, alternative energy, chemicals and plastics, heavy equipment, appliances, and rubber products.
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Mark Crawford (Location USA 2012)
Across the United States alternative energy is a rapidly growing field; with federal support for green technology, more stringent environmental controls, the high cost of fuel, America’s reputation for innovative R&D, and receptive consumer markets, a number of foreign companies are locating operations here.
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Don McDougall, Director, Engineered Tax Services (2012 Directory)
The new tax codes make the decision to relight a facility an easy — and profitable — one!
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John K. Borchardt (2012 Directory)
Solar panel manufacturers are taking advantage of empty warehouse buildings leftover from the recession to reduce the cost of opening additional production facilities.
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Robert Owens, Co-founder and President, O,R&L Integrated Real Estate Services (2012 Directory)
With the impact of the current economic climate on commercial real estate, it’s becoming essential for businesses to focus on developing energy-efficient strategies in the utilization of natural resources.
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Joe Chisholm, Northwest Territory Service Solutions Leader, Trane (November 2011)
While many new buildings are being designed using high-performance building principles, the greatest potential lies in applying this proven approach to improve the performance of existing facilities.
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Reginald D. Cook, Vice President, Business Development, National Energy Services (a Johnson Controls company) (November 2011)
In the world of industrial energy, where cost is the driving force, lighting efficiency is an obvious solution that must not be overlooked.
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Mali R. Schantz-Feld (November 2011)
Energy availability and costs was ranked in ninth place in Area Development’s 25th Annual Corporate Survey, with 82.1 percent of the respondents rating this factor as very important or important.
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John K. Borchardt (November 2011)
Hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) and horizontal wells now make it possible to economically produce natural gas from low permeability shale rock, greatly increasing natural gas supplies while reducing prices.
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Dr. Don McLean, Founder and CEO, Integrated Environmental Solutions (IES) (November 2011)
Building performance analysis must be quantified and incorporated into the design process right from the earliest architectural stages.
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Terrill Laughton, Johnson Controls (Fall 2011)
DR has clearly emerged as an early example of “smart grid” enabling technology, empowering electricity users to reduce consumption — and get paid — for responding to grid emergencies or market-price events.
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Michael Turner, CEO and Forensic Architect, Cognitio Consulting (Fall 2011)
Although applying green technology is important to a building’s sustainability, components must be correctly designed and installed in order to maximize performance and building economy.
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Joe Langan, President and CEO, Langan Energy Solutions (Fall 2011)
Office buildings consume an enormous portion of our national energy production, impacting both the environment and company pocketbooks. It is time that office-building owners begin to explore solar system options.
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John K. Borchardt (Fall 2011)
While the U.S. industrial giant General Electric and foreign firms like Vestas, Siemens, and others dominate production of the large wind turbines used on massive wind farms, small and mid-sized companies across the United States are manufacturing smaller wind turbines designed for use at the top of office towers and in facilities such as airports and shopping malls.
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Julio Gonzalez, Engineered Tax Services (Fall 2011)
The tax savings to be gained from greening your facility can make a significant contribution to your bottom line.
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Steve Stackhouse (July 2011)
Attention to evolving infrastructure factors, like strong data connectivity, is growing in importance during the location decision-making process.
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Joseph F. Monaco, Assistant Communications Director, University of Kansas (July 2011)
The Bioscience & Technology Business Center (BTBC). It’s one of the Midwest’s most promising new business incubators, and it has corporate leaders nationwide adding Lawrence, Kan., to their short list of potential business sites.
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Area Development Online Research Desk and CNBC (7/5/2011)
America's deepening economic crisis is changing the way states market themselves to business, reveals data in CNBC’s fifth annual study of America’s Top States for Business.
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Area Development Online Research Desk and Johnson Controls (6/24/2011)
According to a recent survey, those responsible for energy use in their facilities around the globe are increasingly instituting energy-efficiency measures, prompted by incentives to do so as well a desire to improve their organizations’ public image.
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Robert Hess, Partner Strategic Consulting, Newmark Knight Frank (Spring 2011)
With completion of it's $3.7b, 7 million square-foot Calvert, AL complex, ThyssennKrupp met and exceeded environmental compliance standards while achieving it's goal to come on-line by the end of 2010 while overcoming numerous obstacles.
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