The bill would tie subsidy levels to cost of living around the nation instead of to the national federal poverty level. In the meantime, a lawmaker from Colorado introduces a bill to speed construction of VA hospitals. The Sacramento Bee: ...
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The Nicaraguan government has granted a concession to a mysterious Chinese company owned by Jing Wang, a little-known Hong-Kong based businessman, to build an inter-oceanic canal. This would provide an alternative to the Panama Canal that, ...
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UAE-based steel producer Emirates Steel Industries (ESI) has announced its financial results for 2013, stating that its sales revenues amounted to AED 6.5 billion ($ 1.8 billion), almost eight percent higher than 2012, despite sluggish ...
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Schools, 4-H clubs, community organizations, church groups and other youth organizations are encouraged to apply. Grants of up to $1,000 for youth gardening projects are available through North Dakota State University. Any project ...
Taiwan-based solar-grade polycrystalline silicon ingot and wafer maker Eversol has landed EPC (engineering, procurement, construction) projects for installing ground-mounted PV systems with total capacity of 80MWp in Japan and expects to ...
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ZHANG CHENGLIANG/CHINA DAILY Although China's economic growth is slowing down, ongoing urbanization will still strongly support demand for iron ore and steel products for a long time. "We have confidence in China's iron ore demand because ...
According to a report released by the Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics, the ‘Qatar Economic Outlook 2013 – 2014 Update’, Qatar has seen a 6.2% increase in GDP compared to 2012 due partly to an increase in ...
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The movement for healthier, high-performing buildings has reached a new milestone, as the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) issued the 20,000th LEED certification for a commercial project. In December 2013, USGBC's Green Building ...
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Saudi Arabia's cement sector is facing a slowdown in demand due to the knock-on effect that the recent visa crackdown in the Kingdom has had on construction projects. Efforts to boost Saudi employment in the construction sector has led to ...
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The movement for healthier, high-performing buildings has reached a new milestone, as the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) issued the 20,000th LEED certification for a commercial project. This month, USGBC’s Green Building ...
It is reported that Taiwan's rebar mills have faced the highly pressure in domestic market operation in the fourth quarter. It' learned that there are three major ambient pressures for the Taiwanese rebar mills. Firstly, the decreasing ...
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China Steel Structure Corp. (CSSC), one of the major steel structure makers and the subsidiary company of Taiwan's China Steel Corp., said that the company has received three big orders from the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) construction ...
The chief economist for the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) predicts that the construction industry will add as many as 300,000 new jobs next year to decisively rebound from a recession that had crippled it. This could mean ...
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Welcome to Sakthi Roofing Completing a building that's made to last for decades at a stretch entails investing in constructing stable and secured roofs. Our industry has bloomed massively, and roofing has emerged as a specialized offshoot ...
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New construction projects are expected to increase demand for cement in coming months. Sales of cement companies dropped by 17 percent in November 2013 to 3.65 million tons compared to 4.37 million tons in the same period in 2012, local ...
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