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10 Factors to Consider When Choosing a Roof Type for Your Construction Projects

Strategy Driven

Here are 10 factors worth considering when choosing a roof type for your construction projects. This also involves choosing the right contractor for your construction projects as they influence your decisions the most. Finances will always be your number one constraint. Choosing a roof type comes with great responsibility.

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Top 10 US Cities to Capture Small Business Recovery Act Dollars.

Women on Business

A Roadmap For Recovery Stimulus dollars are headed toward businesses that support these Recovery Act goals: Healthcare : Modernize the healthcare system with electronic medical records systems. If your small business plan can move the nation forward, you’re a step closer to winning Uncle Sam’s financing and support.

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Too Many Infrastructure Projects Go It Alone

Harvard Business Review

To renew and reinvent our aging transportation infrastructure, we must turn our attention to coalition-building. Over a billion cars currently are on the road worldwide and a billion mobile devices use Android software, but these converging means of transportation and communication are barely connected. With a similar goal, the U.S.

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Fixing the World's Infrastructure Problems

Harvard Business Review

Department of Transportation estimates that 15% of the country''s roads are in an unacceptable condition and says that road congestion costs the U.S. A focus on the huge need for additional investment and potential difficulties in financing it dominate the debate. Global business Productivity Transportation PDF'

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Female Entrepreneurs Go Beyond "Cookies and Crafts"

Harvard Business Review

But most women outgrew the "cookies and crafts" stereotype a long time ago, and have their sights set on bigger goals. Many have found success in industries like technology, mining, and construction. Those businesses were mainly in fashion, fitness and beauty.

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Pricing Lessons From the London Olympics

Harvard Business Review

Interestingly, however, the committee did bundle public transportation into the ticket price, recognizing the opportunity to reduce traffic congestion in and around the venues. One of the explicit goals in pricing the Games was to limit negative media attention. After all, they financed and endured the construction.

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The Right Way to Rebuild America’s Infrastructure

Harvard Business Review

John Macomber, a senior lecturer in the finance unit at Harvard Business School, has studied infrastructure financing around the world. Further, thousands of municipalities and agencies still issue municipal bonds to finance water, power, road, and other projects that are largely self-funding or “bankable” projects.