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Economic Times
April 18, 2018
Tapping into Japanese investors provides infrastructure businesses in India with an opportunity to access a large pool of capital that is looking for returns in a low interest rate environment. While an Indo-Japan collaboration through Japanese technology transfers is extremely beneficial, capital transfersÃâà...
Zacks.com
April 18, 2018
“In particular, IFRA may allow investors to express a thematic view as it's designed to offer exposure to U.S. companies that derive more than 50 percent of their revenue domestically, which could benefit from a potential increase in infrastructure activities in the U.S.,” per an etf.com article citing a statementÃâà...
SlashGear
April 18, 2018
Volocopter has been working to bring air taxi services to the masses for a while now. It has now unveiled its air taxi infrastructure for cities that is meant to integrate air taxis into existing transportation systems. Volocopter says that its infrastructure could support mobility for up to another 10,000 passengersÃâà...
The Australian Financial Review
April 18, 2018
Business confidence is at a record high with company directors urging a major infrastructure and energy spend in next month's federal budget as the most important priority to boost the economy. The biannual survey of company directors – which shows overall confidence at its highest level since the surveyÃâà...
HITInfrastructure.com
April 18, 2018
Organizations that are expanding their IT infrastructure, testing, or migrating applications can benefit greatly from the public cloud's flexibility. The public cloud can be used in conjunction with other on-premises and cloud solutions such as hybrid cloud or multicloud environments. Organizations can alsoÃâà...
Logistics Management
April 18, 2018
Wait 'til next year. Maybe. If promises were concrete and asphalt, this country would have the world class infrastructure that President Donald Trump keeps talking about. Unfortunately, it takes careful planning, political will and, most importantly, billions of dollars. All those characteristics are in short supplyÃâà...
Boston Herald
April 18, 2018
Massive chunks of concrete falling from a state bridge onto commuter rail tracks outside South Station are putting the public at risk — as well as the state's economy, as another sign that Massachusetts needs to make heavy investments in its infrastructure, transit advocates said. The facade under the AlbanyÃâà...
GreenBiz
April 17, 2018
This article originally appeared on MeetingoftheMinds.org. Ben Lambert, a 34-year-old who manages fundraising efforts for a number of nonprofits, lives in one of Denver's densest residential neighborhoods: Capitol Hill. The area surrounds Colorado's capitol building and is home to museums, concertÃâà...
MIT News
March 31, 2018
In the face of limited funding to address massive infrastructure needs, and with climate action at top of mind, it is more important than ever for engineers, designers, and policy makers to understand the full economic and environmental costs of infrastructure project decisions — and not just impacts relating toÃâà...
Washington Examiner
March 31, 2018
Infrastructure was supposed to be the great bipartisan hope, an issue on which Democrats would work with President Trump — except Trump no longer sounds so sure. “I have asked Republicans and Democrats in Congress to come together and deliver the biggest and boldest infrastructure plan in the lastÃâà...
Logistics Management
March 31, 2018
Freight and logistics regulations, coupled with the subsequent and related factors stemming from them, are of keen importance for both shippers and carriers alike, considering they can impact various things, including carrier costs, operations, rates, and shipper and carrier relations, among other things.
WBAL Baltimore
March 31, 2018
The Hogan administration took action immediately by moving forward on nearly 1,000 transportation infrastructure projects, including the top priority road projects in every single jurisdiction all across the state to get Marylanders moving again. These projects include fixing 69 structurally deficient bridgesÃâà...
Mississippi News Now
March 31, 2018
Lawmakers couldn't come to an agreement on new infrastructure money this year. Its an issue that you may see the direct impacts of because your local leaders say that will put their budget in an even tighter spot. The state lawmakers wrapped up the legislative session this week. And while they may beÃâà...
The Atlantic
March 30, 2018
If recent history is a guide, President Trump won't be getting much infrastructure money from Congress anytime soon. Republicans stiffed former President Barack Obama's repeated requests to splurge on roads and bridges, and they just got done slashing federal revenues through tax cuts and boostingÃâà...
CBS News
March 30, 2018
President Trump pitched his infrastructure plan Thursday in Ohio -- sort of. In a speech to union workers, Mr. Trump said infrastructure probably won't happen until after the midterm elections. "I don't think you're going to get Democrats' support very much," Mr. Trump said. "And you'll probably have to waitÃâà...
CNNMoney
March 29, 2018
President Trump unveiled a plan in February to turn $200 billion in federal money into $1.5 trillion for fixing America's infrastructure by leveraging local and state tax dollars and private investment. The plan seemed promising, but it hasn't advanced since. Strawbridge, who hired a brand name publicÃâà...
NWAOnline
March 15, 2018
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump's administration wants to commit $200 billion on a variety of risky but potentially "transformative" infrastructure projects, such as satellite networks to provide rural broadband, new launchpads for private rockets, and "augmented reality" technologies to visualize andÃâà...
The Pew Charitable Trusts (blog)
March 15, 2018
That's one reason more than 250 governors, state representatives, and mayors from across the political spectrum and representing more than 45 million Americans are calling on the federal government to ensure that our country's infrastructure can withstand flooding—which in turn would limit damage,Ãâà...
KTIC
March 15, 2018
I thank you for the opportunity to appear before you to provide comments on the rural component of the President's Rebuilding Infrastructure in America proposal. Throughout his campaign and since he has been in office, the President has made investing in American infrastructure a priority – for ourÃâà...
ZDNet
March 15, 2018
Storage shipments grew 1.6 percent to reach $26 billion, as spending on all-flash and software-defined products offset a decline in traditional HDD storage arrays. Cisco was the top vendor, taking 20 percent of the overall infrastructure market primarily because of its dominance in networking. Dell EMC, inÃâà...
Brookings Institution (blog)
March 15, 2018
Last week, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released Nigeria's 2018 Article IV consultation report highlighting the country's exit from the recession that started in the first quarter of 2016 largely due to low oil prices. According to the report, the economy grew by 0.8 percent in 2017 with growth forecastedÃâà...
Bridge Michigan
March 15, 2018
Drive on any pothole-ridden street, and it's clear: Michigan has an infrastructure problem. Solutions, though, aren't so easy. That's partly because the cost of a solution, estimated at $4 billion annually, is so vast, according to experts Wednesday at Michigan Solutions Summit sponsored by The Center forÃâà...
NPR
March 15, 2018
The Trump administration sent an all-star team of five Cabinet secretaries to a Senate hearing Wednesday to talk up its infrastructure proposals. But not even the combined talents of the secretaries of Transportation, Commerce, Labor, Agriculture and Energy seemed enough to move the ball on the $1.5Ãâà...
Jackson Hole News&Guide
March 11, 2018
After 10 amendments Sen. Leland Christensen's controversial bill enacting heavy fines for trespassing on critical infrastructure, passed late Friday night in the Wyoming Legislature's House by a vote of 36 to 23. As originally written the bill would have enacted fines from $10,000 to $1 million for those whoÃâà...
Muskogee Daily Phoenix
March 11, 2018
"This sets out a contract with Cowan Group to get that first small project going and the design for one major project," Riley said of the plans to kickstart improvements to the city's drinking water infrastructure. "That is about half the loan and ... the main project that we need to get going once we get the loanÃâà...
MyAJC
March 10, 2018
Last month, the White House released President Trump's long-awaited infrastructure proposal. As a member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, it's encouraging to see America's attention turn to an issue that I know is so important to folks in our district, across the state, and throughout theÃâà...
The Hill
March 10, 2018
"Testimony from these five cabinet secretaries will support a comprehensive public discussion with senators about the White House proposal for aligning federal resources with local infrastructure needs and helping complete projects faster," Thune, the committee's chairman, said in a statement.
The Hill
March 10, 2018
The president's tariffs — 25 percent on steel, and 10 percent on aluminum imports — are only the latest protectionist ploy that impede his infrastructure push. “Buy America” restrictions currently on the books require all federally funded road, bridge, transit, and airport projects to source steel and certain otherÃâà...
KTVB
March 9, 2018
BOISE - As growth continues at a rapid rate in the Gem State, the American Society of Civil Engineers, or ASCE, have found that Idaho's infrastructure is lagging behind. Overall, the state was issued a "C-" grade Thursday for roads, bridges, dams and other structures. "A lot of it is the growth, you know IdahoÃâà...
InfoWorld
March 9, 2018
Sizing an IT infrastructure today can be tough. Although science is used to determine data center needs, there is still an art that goes into the decision process. The reason is simple. A variety of IT devices of various ages from various vendors — each with its own lifecycle, costs, and on-going maintenanceÃâà...
Governing
March 6, 2018
After decades of lackluster investment, misinvestment and disinvestment, how does America reinvigorate its infrastructure spending to get the most impact from every dollar? The Trump administration's own infrastructure plan might hold a key. As the White House put it in a fact sheet previewing the proposalÃâà...
Journal Of Commerce (blog)
March 6, 2018
National construction indsutry leaders agree there were few surprises in this year's federal budget and little mention of infrastructure spending, however, many lauded the government initiatives to expand the skilled trades workforce. Finance Minister Bill Morneau tabled Budget 2018 — Equality + Growth: AÃâà...
The Japan Times
March 6, 2018
The Tepco group regards the power infrastructure lease services as a business supplementing its core power supply operations. Main customers of the services are existing mobile phone carriers and local governments, which use Tepco facilities for setting up base stations and installing river-monitoringÃâà...
euronews
March 6, 2018
LONDON (Reuters) – Macquarie is trying to pull out of the Russian-focused infrastructure fund it manages after some of the investments underperformed, three industry sources and a banker said. The fund, the first major private fund dedicated to infrastructure in Russia and the CIS when it wasÃâà...
Bridge Michigan
March 6, 2018
Michigan's failure to anticipate and address long-term infrastructure needs, from destructive roads to clean drinking water to high-speed Internet, has tangible economic effects: missed work shifts and hundreds of dollars spent to fix blown tires; on the state's ability to attract businesses that need reliableÃâà...
Curbed
March 6, 2018
The proposed steel and aluminum tariffs President Trump announced last week made domestic steel and aluminum mills very happy. But the potential shift in metal prices has many industries, including construction, expecting higher costs, and may also impact infrastructure spending across the nation.
Bridge Michigan
March 6, 2018
The kicker: The state's infrastructure has barely improved in nine years, since the height of the recession, signaling that Michigan's failure to invest enough money to maintain bridges, roads, drinking water and wastewater treatment has left the state's internal systems on the brink of failure. That is, unlessÃâà...
WorkBoat
March 6, 2018
The Trump administration's plan for $200 billion in federal infrastructure funding over 10 years will shift primary decision-making onto state and local governments, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao told members of Congress Tuesday. Chao called it “seed money to incentivize investment by stateÃâà...
Brazosport Facts
March 5, 2018
FREEPORT — After years of fielding concerns from residents about the city's streets and utilities, city officials are promising a major infrastructure overhaul. Council members voted at a meeting last week to add an extra $542,000 to the $1.2 million allocated for infrastructure in the 2016-17 budget cycle,Ãâà...
The Herald Argus
March 5, 2018
Photo by Jessica O'BrienMayor Ron Meer speaks to a member of the Exchange Club on Tuesday at the Elks Lodge. Facebook Ãâ÷ Twitter Ãâ÷ Email; Print; Save. MICHIGAN CITY — City roads and infrastructure topped the list of concerns on Tuesday as Mayor Ron Meer paid a visit to the Michigan City ExchangeÃâà...
PYMNTS.com
March 5, 2018
There are many opportunities for cities to improve infrastructure without increasing it. Erez said better utilization of existing infrastructure is a faster, cheaper first step than starting from scratch — plus, it can deliver results sooner for people whose commute times have gone beyond negatively impacting their lives to actuallyÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 5, 2018
North Dakota's oil tax piggy bank would be tapped to help towns pay for big infrastructure projects under legislation drafted by a pair of Republican ... that would tap part of North Dakota's big oil tax piggy bank to provide low-interest loans for communities facing large and expensive infrastructure projects.
Harrison Daily
March 4, 2018
Harrison City Council was informed at its February meeting that work on the next round of infrastructure projects is being developed that will address needs for the next eight years. The “2026 Infrastructure Program,” as it is currently called, was outlined by Public Works Director Wade Phillips. Aldermen hadÃâà...
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
March 4, 2018
Editorial: Clear, persuasive priorities for St. Paul infrastructure ... Twin Cities residents know all too well the devastating results of public infrastructure failure. The lessons of the I-35W ... Checking big infrastructure projects off the list makes sense now and takes a burden off future spending. The queue:Ãâà...
Economic Times
March 4, 2018
NEW DELHI: As many as 359 infrastructure projects, each worth Rs 150 crore and above, have shown cost overrun to the tune of Rs 2.05 lakh crore owing to delays and other reasons, a government report has said. The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation monitors infrastructure projectsÃâà...
Herald and News
March 4, 2018
MERRILL — Long abandoned cable television wiring and infrastructure is being condemned by the City of Merrill in an attempt to re-sell to potential ... to condemn the cable plants and replace it with something good, whomever the cable custodians may be would take over infrastructure maintenance.”.
New Haven Register
March 4, 2018
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Republican-sponsored legislation has been drafted that would tap part of North Dakota's big oil tax piggy bank to provide low-interest loans for communities facing large and expensive infrastructure projects. It's the first time Republicans, who control both chambers of theÃâà...
Fairfield Daily Republic
March 4, 2018
Like every community across the country, Fairfield's infrastructure is essential for the local economy to function. Infrastructure includes the roads, transit, water system, sewers and parks we rely on every day. Fairfield's infrastructure is a mix of old and new. Some of the oldest infrastructure is located in orÃâà...
InfoWorld
March 1, 2018
What makes the future exciting? Simplicity. In all of our wildest imaginings in stories and movies about what the future will be like, a simpler life is almost always a central theme, driven by amazing technologies. The world today is getting closer and closer to these imaginings. The smartphone gives us oneÃâà...
The Fiscal Times
March 1, 2018
With 70 percent of the world's population — or approximately 6.8 billion people — expected to live in cities by 2050, the demand for safe, reliable and efficient urban infrastructure is growing at a rapid pace. All cities, of all sizes, will need to invest more in infrastructure development. Cities that already have aÃâà...
