Tag: Permitting
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Smart permitting, phase-out of diesel generators could curb data center impacts
Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Allowing data centers to get through the permitting process quicker if they’re energy and water efficient and located in areas with abundant clean power and water is one way to manage data center growth while minimizing their…
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Streamlined Permitting: The Competitive Edge for On-Time, Profitable Construction Projects
The construction and building industries operate on tight margins and even tighter deadlines. As you undertake new commercial, residential, or infrastructure projects, a seemingly straightforward administrative step — the permitting process — often escalates into an unexpected and costly roadblock. Traditional permitting, a complex administrative maze of applications, reviews, and inspections, can introduce significant delays…
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San Francisco’s permitting reform seeks an end to building project ‘death by a thousand cuts’
Dive Brief: San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie unveiled a legislative package containing sweeping permitting changes for the city, the latest in the mayor’s ongoing PermitSF plan to remove barriers and streamline San Francisco’s permitting process. The changes would reduce permitting fees for development projects of $100 million or more and eliminate a requirement to meet…
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California city adopts AI permitting
Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: The city of Lancaster, California, has reached an agreement to partner with artificial intelligence-based permitting platform Labrynth to deploy the company’s tech across the city’s permitting system, according to a Sept. 3 news release. As…
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California city adopts AI permitting
Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: The city of Lancaster, California, has reached an agreement to partner with artificial intelligence-based permitting platform Labrynth to deploy the company’s tech across the city’s permitting system, according to a Sept. 3 news release. As…
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Municipalities tap AI for permitting
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: In order to cut down on long wait times for environmental and building permits, the cities of Los Angeles, Austin, Texas, and Honolulu have turned to artificial intelligence to give their planning departments a boost…
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What NEPA changes mean for projects, permitting timelines
Listen to the article 6 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Alexaida Collet is an attorney with MZLS, a San Juan, Puerto Rico-based firm serving businesses and public sector stakeholders across the Washington, D.C., metropolitan region and Puerto Rico. Opinions are the author’s own. The Council on Environmental…
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Trump orders permitting agencies to embrace tech
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: As the White House continues to overhaul the environmental review and permitting process, President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on April 15 that will require federal agencies to integrate technology into their review workflows in…
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Builders testify in Congress on permitting issues
A group of construction and energy sector representatives, including the chairman of the National Association of Home Builders, presented the Senate with their experiences of federal environmental review and permitting inefficiencies in a committee hearing last week. The U.S. Senate’s Committee on Environment & Public Works invited these testimonies as part of its focus on…
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AECOM CEO says Trump’s permitting reform outweighs agency cuts
Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The benefits of deregulation outweigh the harm of any potential funding cuts coming out of Washington, at least for one infrastructure contractor. On AECOM’s latest earnings call on Feb 4., CEO Troy Rudd addressed the concerns on…