And even though steel and concrete are still the most cost-effective materials, new combinations of these substances provide greater strength and fire retardance, says W. Gene Corley, senior vice president at Construction Technology Laboratories in Skokie, Ill.
He realized this could only happen if players from the construction and technology industries came together.
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The company's businesses include services for engineering, construction, technology, chemicals and energy industries.
Over the past five years I've studied businesses and helped them change in financial services, textiles, construction and technology.
Rudy's working toward an associate's degree in construction management technology.
Few industries are as mired in outdated practices and slow to adopt technology as construction.
Among the industrial sectors, investors were most enthusiastic about the prospects for information technology, construction, services and pharmaceuticals.
Construction company Wilmott Dixon has reached the highest point in the construction of the Bristol Technology and Engineering Academy in the city.
The energy boom is creating thousands of jobs related to drilling but also in downstream industries such as transportation, high-technology, construction and manufacturing.
It is aimed at teenagers who might want qualifications for jobs in areas such as information technology, construction, retail, hospitality and digital media.
The public inquiry, which opened at the Technology and Construction Court in central London on Wednesday, was adjourned until the first half of next year.
Gove's exams still place no value on creative subjects like art, music and drama, and no value on practical subjects like engineering, design and technology and construction.
Malloy announced that ESPN would receive millions of dollars in state tax breaks with the construction of a digital technology building and the addition of at least 200 jobs over five years.
Moreover, a prolonged investment drought in the region will hurt the major American industries -- notably aerospace, high technology, construction equipment and financial services -- that have prospered most from the Asian boom.
Perhaps the most rapid change has taken place in North Carolina, where a technology and construction boom has sucked in hundreds of thousands of migrant workers, swelling the Hispanic population by more than 1, 000% since 1990.
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It is meant to push companies out of the so-called valley of death where private equity or debt investors are reluctant to cover huge construction costs on unproven technology given the sluggish growth outlook for power demand.
In a preliminary hearing last year at the Technology and Construction court at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, Mr Zennstrom and his wife Catherine said the house in the exclusive estate of Crowsport was so poorly constructed it was simply "not fit for habitation".
His Sameer Group operates in construction, agriculture, information technology, telecom and finance.
That all-of-the-above approach includes many things that the President talked about on the campaign trail extensively -- investments in renewable energy, investments in biofuels, investments in nuclear technology including the construction of the first nuclear power plant in the United States in 30 years, and including expanded domestic oil and gas production.
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His other business investments are in venture capital in companies that range from telecommunications to construction materials, beer and energy technology.
The Apple authorized dealership is owned by the ASML Group, a 100% Mauritanian business conglomerate, trading in construction, cement, dairy and technology.
Virtual construction is now the norm for most large construction projects, thanks to advances in technology.
E. technology will be used in the construction of the LNG plant, and that half of G.
Some states require natural-gas companies use technology to capture gas during the construction and drilling of wells.
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"Our concern is that this technology is used to justify the construction of more coal power plants, " says Tobias Munchmeyer.
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When completed, it will feature a biology-based wastewater recycling plant built with environmentally correct construction techniques, heated and cooled by geothermal technology and powered by photovoltaic solar panels.
The firm uses a foundation- and endowment-like approach to portfolio construction, investing primarily in early-stage technology companies, with some allocation to life sciences as well as early and growth investments in India and China.
It is not surprising that the school would commission an equally advanced design for its new construction, not only for the latest in technology and sustainability, but also as an appropriate learning environment for those engaged in creative disciplines.
But Levandowski's stunt got the attention of construction clients, who asked him to apply his technology to building a better bulldozer.
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