Silicon Valley Builders Group arms its highly mobile team with smartphones and tablets for real-time productivity and collaboration. Check out the business case for leaving the PC behind.
By Kevin Casey InformationWeek
August 09, 2011 05:53 PM
Could the iPad soon be as common a sight on construction jobs as the hard hat?
It will if the industry [...]
End to San Francisco redevelopment may be near
Although the Transbay Transit Center project is overseen by the Transbay Joint Powers Authority, some funding depends on revenue from Redevelopment Agency projects on state land in The City. (Examiner file photo)
As state budget wrangling continues in Sacramento, San Francisco’s Redevelopment Agency is [...]
ACRAMENTO, CA – Several Sacramento-area school districts received word Thursday that the State Allocation Board (SAB) announced it has given $103.8 million for construction projects at California schools.
Schools districts awarded funding include Lake Tahoe Unified, Elk Grove Unified, Twin Rivers Unified as well as Sutter Union High School.
The funding is for what the SAB calls [...]
By Lisa Gibson | January 25, 2011
A 37.5 MW landfill gas-to-energy expansion project when completed will be the third-largest landfill gas power plant in the U.S.
An expansion of an existing landfill gas-to-energy project in Orange County, Calif., will increase its electricity output from 5 megawatts (MW) to 37.5 MW, all sold to the city of [...]
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Small Business Administration 8(a) Development Program Mission
Maintain and strengthen the nation’s economy by aiding, counseling, assisting and protecting the interests of small businesses and by helping families and businesses recover from national disasters.
The Small Business Administration (SBA) was officially established in 1953, but its philosophy and mission began to take shape years earlier in a [...]
There’s concern that local, state or federal subsidies would be needed as projected ticket prices between L.A. and San Francisco have almost doubled. And building costs for the first phase have grown. Despite a new $2.25-billion infusion of federal economic stimulus funding, there are intensifying concerns — even among some high-speed rail supporters [...]
There’s still 2.8 miles to finish by next year.
Still, the $41 million project to widen Santa Barbara Boulevard from four to six lanes “is moving ahead well. We’re making good progress,” said Steve Neff, Cape Coral traffic engineer.
Neff said that the project is on schedule to be finished by the summer of 2011.
Construction began in [...]
On a dry, scrubby plain on the edge of the Mojave Desert north of Los Angeles, 24,000 mirrors track the Sun’s progress across a clear, blue sky. The neat ranks of heliostats and the computer algorithm that moves them make the Sierra SunTower plant a focal point for a novel type of power generation and [...]
Reporting from Washington – Looking for new ways to help plug the leaky job market, President Obama pressed Congress to provide money to homeowners to improve energy efficiency — and the economy — by replacing doors, caulking windows and padding their attics with more insulation.
Obama admitted that the “idea may not be very glamorous” but [...]
Bond Program Expanded To Aid Contractors
(NAPSI)-There’s good news for small construction or supply companies that require a completion bond–also known as a surety bond–to bid on a project.
As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the Small Business Administration (SBA) can temporarily guarantee bonds on contracts of up to $5 million for small businesses [...]
