Lead Story
High Speed Rail For California…only a Matter of Time.
While we at the California High-Speed Rail Authority don’t second-guess the will of the voters the way Jon Coupal seems to – instead we make it our mission to carry out the will of the voters – we actually agree with the position of the taxpayer advocate who doesn’t want a single cent of the [...]
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Sacramento California
Nacimiento Water Project Plans Push On»
Dec. 24–The countdown continues for the Top 10 Stories of 2009 selected by the Tribune editorial staff.
The Nacimiento Water Project — the county’s largest public works effort — heads into its final months of construction in 2010.
But even as residents and businesses prepare to use the millions of gallons of drinking water that the 45-mile [...]
Los Altos
Green Building Update»
Convincing every city in Santa Clara County to adopt green building standards turned out to be easy. But agreement on how to ensure a green building is indeed green and not just “green-ish” is proving tough.
“It’s a much more difficult question,” said Shiloh Ballard, who, on behalf of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, shepherded the [...]
San Francisco Bay Area
Construction 2.0: How One SMB Runs Without PCs»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 [...]
