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B2: People, Processes and Projects - How the Culture of an Organisation can Impact on Technical System Implementation

Claire Gibbons, Web Officer (Marketing and Communications), University of Bradford and Russell Allen, Project Manager (Portal and CMS), Management Information Services, University of Bradford will help delegates gain an understanding of 'organisational culture' and the effect this can have on change management and/or system implementation.




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Proposed Overtime Rule Now Projected to Come Out in Fall

Lee Schreter comments on the U.S. Department of Labor’s proposed overtime rule, which is tentatively slated to be released in October, and the Fair Labor Standards Act’s independent contractor rule.

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Pro Bono Week Podcast – Pennsylvania Innocence Project

Shareholder Rachel Fendell Satinsky speaks with Pro Bono Committee Member Dave Haase regarding her work with the Pennsylvania Innocence Project over the years.

As part of the annual National Celebration of Pro Bono hosted by the American Bar Association, Littler is highlighting various pro bono efforts from around the firm. Our attorneys and professional staff demonstrate their commitment to pro bono by providing significant efforts to organizations in their communities.
   




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Supreme Court of Canada Confirms “Owners” of Construction Projects Are “Employers” Under OHSA

  • Supreme Court of Canada lets stand decision finding an “owner” of a construction project can be considered an “employer” within the meaning of the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA).
  • This decision has significant implications for the construction sector, as a project owner can now be liable for OHSA violations of its contractor, subject to a due diligence defence.  




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ETSI Intelligent Transport Systems workshop outlines global projects

ETSI Intelligent Transport Systems workshop outlines global projects

Sophia Antipolis, 8 March 2019

The annual ETSI Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) workshop ended after 2 days of intensive discussions and networking opportunities between industry, the European Commission and stakeholders involved in Cooperative ITS deployment (C-ITS) worldwide.

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Social Media for Science Outreach – A Case Study: The Beagle Project, Galapagos Live & ISS Wave

Selected responses categorized into 'helped', 'helped and harmed' and 'harmed'.




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Social Media for Science Outreach – A Case Study: National Science Foundation-funded IGERT project team

To tie in with this month’s SoNYC birthday celebrations, we are hosting a collection of case




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I-290 Eisenhower Expressway/Blue Line Corridor project gets boost

The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT), the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), and the Chicago Metropolitan Planning Agency (CMAP) are partnering to create a unified approach and advance progress on this critical multi-modal corridor with a commitment to improving mobility, accessibility and quality of life for motorists, transit riders, residents and corridor communities.




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CTA Looks to Expand Its Collection of Public Art; Seeks Artist Qualifications for Four New Projects

The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) announced today the kickoff of a search for artists and/or artist teams interested in creating new, one-of-a-kind artwork for four locations throughout the system, as part of its continued expansion of public art to all CTA locations.




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UCLA to lead project to help L.A. County cope with extreme heat

Practices to protect public health, including high-risk groups, are featured in an expansive program.




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StudentDwellTO: U of T, OCAD U, York, Ryerson students and faculty take on affordable housing in massive joint research project

Toronto, ON – The presidents of Toronto’s four universities – the University of Toronto, OCAD University, York University and Ryerson University – have teamed up for a new initiative called StudentDwellTO to tackle one of the biggest issues facing post-secondary students in the Greater Toronto area: affordable housing. The initiative brings together nearly 100 faculty and […]




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University of Toronto to proceed with back campus fields project

TORONTO, ON – The University of Toronto is very pleased that Toronto city councillors re-affirmed the city’s commitment to renewed fields on the university’s historic back campus. City council voted in favour of the University’s plan to proceed with the project, which will involve creating two artificial turf fields. The fields will provide a venue […]



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Antarctic neutrino-hunting project IceCube named Breakthrough of the Year by Physics World - University of Toronto among extensive list of global collaborators

University of Toronto among extensive list of global collaboratorsTORONTO, ON – International high-energy physics research project IceCube has been named the 2013 Breakthrough of the Year by British magazine Physics World. The Antarctic observatory has been selected for making the first observation of cosmic neutrinos, but also for overcoming the many challenges of creating and […]




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Elton John AIDS Foundation supports the International Human Rights Program’s project investigating the negative impact of Canada’s policies on refugees with HIV

TORONTO, ON — The International Human Rights program (IHRP) has received a $75,000 grant from the Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF) to launch a project exposing the negative impact of Canada’s refugee policies on some of the world’s most vulnerable claimants—people with HIV or at-risk of HIV due to rampant violence, discrimination based on sexual […]



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Keeping Employees Connected and Projects on Track in a Remote Work Environment

Before the pandemic, 17 percent of US employees worked remotely full-time. Now, it's closer to 44 percent. More businesses than ever before are operating without physical headquarters or offices, giving their employees lots of flexibility around their work schedules and workplaces. And it is safe to say that these remote work policies are here to ...




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Machine Vision Project Management – What’s Different?

Machine vision projects often face challenges such as slow progress, difficulty in getting quotes, cost overruns, and unreliable operation. These issues require recognizing and adapting to the unique nature of machine vision projects compared to other types of projects.




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Beck: DIU ‘Not Taking on Projects Anymore Where There’s Not a Pathway to Scale’

The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has personnel at combatant commands and other forward locations to aid in fielding front-line equipment requests, DIU Director Doug Beck said last Friday. “The whole […]




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House’s Top Defense Appropriator Calvert Projected To Win Reelection

Rep. Ken Calvert, the House’s top defense appropriator, is projected to narrowly win his reelection bid following a competitive race. While final control of the House in the next Congress […]




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Project Files: Episode 47 — Sheridan College District Energy System

When Sheridan College launched its Energy and Climate Master Plan, with the goal of cutting campus energy and greenhouse gas emissions by half, they realized that they would need to transform their heating and cooling system.




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Project Files: Episode 42 — Amalie Arena IAQ Update

Pure Air Control Services recently completed an IAQ project that helped fans and hockey players at the Stanley Cup Playoffs breathe easy at Tampa Bay’s Amalie Arena.




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Project Files: Episode 50 — Synchronized Hydronic Loop Saves Towson Court House HVAC

When it began “raining” inside the Towson Court House, a leaky roof was assumed to be the culprit. But for the Maryland Department of General Services, the truth turned out to be much stranger.




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Project Files: Episode 65 — Zero-Emission Hydronic Heat at Brooklyn Brownstone

The home now has a 3.9 kW solar array that offsets nearly 100% of the System M and grid power supplied from the clean-sourced ConEd program — meaning that the house has zero emission heating, cooling, and hot water.




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Project Files: Episode 33 — Canneberges Bécancour

Canneberges Bécancour, one of the most productive cranberry farms in North America, wanted to develop a freezing facility to support a original 17,000-square-foot processing plant.




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Refrigeration Pilot Projects Show 50% Energy Savings

Refrigerated Solutions Group and Budderfly announced the results of energy efficiency pilot projects across two Subway restaurant locations using RSG’s Capsule Pak ECO™.




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Project Files: Episode 21 — University of Arkansas Rec Building

When your campus is home to 27,000 students, indoor air quality is of the utmost importance.




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Project Files: Episode 45 — New Jersey Cold Storage Warehouse Overhaul

Lineage Logistics recently funded renovations to the refrigeration system at a New Jersey facility, including replacement of an evaporative condenser.




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Project Files: Episode 29 — Aquatic Center at Mylan Park

The new $48 million Aquatic Center at Mylan Park is unquestionably the most state-of-the-art indoor pool complex in West Virginia.




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Project Files: Episode 37 — LEED Gold Sheet Metal Facility Retrofit

In 2017, RenewAire moved into a 110,000-square-foot building and retrofitted it as one of the nation’s few LEED Gold-certified industrial facilities.




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Project Files: Episode 43 — Bull Valley Golf Club RTU Upgrade

With thousands of people visiting every year, Bull Valley needed to address deficiencies within the HVAC system of the 32-year-old clubhouse: in particular, the rooftop units.




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Project Files: Episode 70 — Rooftop Replacement at Texas Motor Speedway

The speedway’s original HVAC equipment, installed nearly 30 years ago, was outdated, and with one HVAC unit per suite, the cost to run and maintain the equipment was significant.




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Project Files: Episode 48 — Custom A/C for the Vatican Museums

The Raphael Rooms in the Vatican are universally known as one of the greatest works of art ever created. During a typical summer, temperatures in Rome can soar as high as 104°F. So the decision to install air conditioning in the Raphael Rooms for the first time ever was an easy one.




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Project Files: Episode 67 — Variable-Speed A/C in Miami Humidity

The Endeavor Line provides tech-savvy and environmentally mindful consumers like the Horwitzes with smart home compatibility and sustainable features.




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Project Files: Episode 49 — Downtown Denver Rooftop Replacement

The cooling towers located on the roof of Granite Tower in Denver were meant to last 20 years. But at nearly 40 years, the cooling towers and fluid coolers were well past their life expectancy.




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Project Files: Episode 58 — HVAC Treatment Keeps Art Museum Cool

The city of Phoenix sought an energy-efficient HVAC solution that would restore Phoenix Art Museum’s lost efficiency and improve the indoor climate for the museum’s specialized environment while also contributing to the city’s energy conservation goals.




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Project Files: Episode 63 — University of Cincinnati Chiller Upgrade

Like many universities across America, the University of Cincinnati faced a major infrastructure challenge: having to operate aging central utility plants with older technology.




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Project Files: Episode 61 — All-Electric, Zero-Carbon Michigan Home

This Michigan home is proof that even when achieving high-level green building standards, more can be done to improve sustainability.




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Project Files: Episode 27 — U.S. Air Conditioning Distributors

When it comes to smart thermostats, USACD walks the walk and talks the talk.




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Project Files: Episode 24 — The Lido House

The project team and property management realized they needed to maximize open space for use by hotel guests. They chose LG’s Multi V™ 5 and Multi V™ S VRF systems, noted for energy efficiency and flexibility in design and installation options.




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Episode 162: Project Voldemort with Jay Kreps

Jay Kreps talks about the open source data store Project Voldemort. Voldemort is a distributed key-value store used by LinkedIn and other high-traffic web sites to overcome the inherent scalability limitations of a relational database. The conversation delves into the workings of a Voldemort cluster, the type of consistency guarantees that can be made in a distributed database, and the tradeoff between client and the server.




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Episode 188: Requirements in Agile Projects

Recording Venue: Paddington, London Guests: Suzanne Robertson and James Robertson, Atlantic Systems Guild Neil Maiden, Editor of the Requirements column in IEEE Software, talks with Suzanne and James Robertson of the Atlantic Systems Guild about the emergence and impact of agile practices on requirements work. The interview begins with an exploration of how agile practices have […]




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Episode 207: Mitchell Hashimoto on the Vagrant Project

Charles Anderson talks to Mitchell Hashimoto about the Vagrant open source project, which can be used to create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments. Vagrant aims to make new developers on a project productive within minutes of joining the project instead of spending hours or days setting up the developer’s workstation. The outline […]




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SE-Radio Epislode 250: Jürgen Laartz and Alexander Budzier on Why Large IT Projects Fail

Alex Budzier of the Oxford Saïd Business School and Jürgen Laartz of McKinsey Berlin join Robert Blumen to talk about the their research on large IT project failures. Why do large projects fail and to what extent are these failures avoidable?




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Episode 471: Jason Meller on Choosing the Right Tech Stack for a Greenfield Project

CEO and security expert Jason Meller discusses modern tech stacks across a variety of programming languages to consider when building your next project or startup.




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Episode 501: Bob Ducharme on Creating Technical Documentation for Software Projects

Nikhil Krishna speaks to Bob DuCharme an experienced technical writer and author about how to write and maintain technical documentation for software products. In the episode different mediums to distribute documentation and tools to maintain documentation are discussed.





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An Abolitionist Response to Project 2025

Project 2025, created by the extremist right-wing Heritage Foundation, fortifies the racist impact of policing by empowering the Department of Justice to focus on violent crime, despite the fact that




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Electrical Design Project Of Sun’s Datacenter In Santa Clara, California

This technical article provides a top-to-bottom overview of Sun Microsystems’s Santa Clara, California datacenter from electrical design aspect. Sun’s electrical design tour of Santa Clara datacenter is done through a series of single line diagrams. These diagrams illustrate the various components... Read more

The post Electrical Design Project Of Sun’s Datacenter In Santa Clara, California appeared first on EEP - Electrical Engineering Portal.




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New Crystal Restoration Promotes Don O'Dell to Head of Project Management

With Don O'Dell's expertise in quality service and safety, he is poised to lead New Crystal Restoration's project management team, further enhancing the company’s trusted reputation across the tri-state area. Learn more about his journey and the valuable skills he brings to this leadership role.





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Epson Updates EF Series Portable Offerings with Two New Projectors

Epson has upgraded its EqiqVision Mini portable lifestyle projector series with the EF22 and EF21, two new laser models featuring advanced setup features and the Google TV streaming platform.



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