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Empowering LA’s Solar Workforce: New Policies that Deliver Investments and Jobs

Monday, November 21st, 2011

LABC INSTITUTE
Los Angeles is home to year-round sunshine and an entrepreneurial spirit. As such, it has the potential to be the national leader in solar power and clean energy jobs. Further, thanks to an abundance of training programs, Los Angeles boasts a trained workforce ready for jobs in solar installation, design, sales and more. Unfortunately, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LA DWP) has failed to take advantage of the tremendous environmental and economic potential that solar power offers our region. As a result, Los Angeles has unwittingly forfeited significant opportunities to take leadership in this growing industry, meet the renewable energy goals mandated by state law, and create thousands of local jobs.

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Trade – What it Means for Jobs, How it Depends on the Transportation Network

Thursday, November 17th, 2011

Transportation Issues Daily Washington State is the most trade dependent state in the country. The state is the fifth largest exporter in the country and has consistently had one of the highest “export per capita” and “exports as a percentage of state GDP” ratios among all states. About one in three Washington jobs is somehow related to [...]

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Talking Infrastructure with Engineers at ASCE’s 141st Annual Civil Engineering Conference

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

This is the second in a series of posts
Steven CF Anderson, Managing Director of InfrastructureUSA speaks with several engineers attending the American Society of Civil Engineers 141st Annual Civil Engineering Conference held last month in Memphis, Tennessee:

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Posted in Accountability, Aging Infrastructure, Bipartisan, Bridges, Economic Stimulus, Employment, Funding, Guests on The Infra Blog, High Speed Rail, Highway, Jobs, Local, National, Rail, Roads, The Infra Blog, Transit

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Pipeline To The Arctic – Alaska Pipeline Construction Documentary

Wednesday, November 9th, 2011

This film from the mid 1970′s shows how pipes were transported from steelmills around the world to make the Trans-Alaska oil pipeline. Includes scenes of the pipes on large purpose built barges, being unloaded into large storage areas, and being transported by truck. – Ella73TV2 on YouTube

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Newsflash: Transportation Project Creates Jobs, Stimulates Economy

Friday, November 4th, 2011

Transportation Issues Daily One of the most frustrating and puzzling arguments against investing in transportation projects is that it doesn’t really have a positive impact on jobs and economic recovery.  Here’s the latest example of how investing in infrastructure does have a positive impact. In Washington state rural county with an unemployment rate of 13%, [...]

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Taking Action, Building Confidence: Jobs Council Report to the President

Monday, October 31st, 2011

THE JOBS COUNCIL
The Challenge: The U.S. Needs to Make Significant Investments in Infrastructure to Stay Competitive with the Rest of the World

U.S. infrastructure has plummeted from eighth to 16th place in the World Economic Forum’s 2005 economic competitiveness ranking.
China now boasts six of the world’s top 10 ports. The U.S. can’t even claim one of the remaining four. Worse, the Shanghai port moves more container traffic a year than the top seven U.S. ports combined.
The U.S. has the world’s worst air traffic congestion—a quarter of flights in the U.S. arrive more than 15 minutes late, and our national average for all delayed flights (about 56 minutes) is twice as long as Europe’s average.

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Solar Energy: Economic Impact of Extending the Section 1603 Treasury Program

Friday, October 21st, 2011

SOLAR ENERGY INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION
The U.S. solar market has experienced rapid growth in the last few years and is poised to continue growing over the next five years according to our baseline forecast. However, extending the TGP would significantly accelerate this growth, increasing investment, employment and deployment across the U.S. While an extension would benefit all sectors of the solar industry, utility-scale solar development would see some of the longest lasting impacts due to the long project development process.

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Discretionary Grant Programs: State by State

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION
FY 2011 Discretionary Program Awards: Alternative Analysis (AA), State of Good Repair (SOGP), & Bus Livability

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President’s Jobs Council: Invest Aggressively in Transportation

Monday, October 17th, 2011

Transportation Issues Daily AASHTO, the national association of State DOTs, reports in their weekly transportation report: “While debate about job creation continued in Washington this week, the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness met Tuesday in Pittsburgh. The council released a report urging the federal government to “invest aggressively and efficiently in cutting-edge infrastructure.” The [...]

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Roseville, CA: Time lapse construction of Total Precast Parking Structure

Friday, October 7th, 2011

Westfield required an extremely quick schedule in order to open the parking structure in time to support an annual tennis tournament that takes place at the mall on the 4th of July weekend. The total precast Design-Manufacture-Construction approach provided a very lean and efficient delivery of the parking structure. The duration from ground breaking to [...]

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