Archive for October, 2009
SAME Weekly Digest: 10.30.09
The SAME Weekly Digest is a brief compendium of the goings on at SAME headquarters during the past week. The digest is posted each Friday and provides a concise debriefing on the happenings of the week that was. To read past editions of the Weekly Digest, click here.
The SAME College Outreach Committee held its quarterly Young [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )President Signs FY10 Defense Authorization; Criticizes Government Overspending, Contracting Fraud
In a ceremony held Wednesday in the East Room of the White House, President Obama signed the 2010 National Defense Authorization Act, which contains $680 billion in military funding but caps or terminates programs deemed by the administration to be troubled or unnecessary in an effort to limit wasteful spending. The president [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Monday Morning Video: Energy Conservation at Federal Facilities
SAME Sustaining Member Company Schneider Electric produced a series of informational videos in conjunction with the recent GovEnergy 2009 conference, held in early August in Providence, R.I. The following videos are titled, from top to bottom, “Leveraging Intelligent Power Metering to Manage Energy Usage in Facilities,” “Meeting Energy Mandates: Best Practices for Complying with Federal [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )SAME Weekly Digest: 10.23.09
The SAME Weekly Digest is a brief compendium of the goings on at SAME headquarters during the past week. The digest is posted each Friday and provides a concise debriefing on the happenings of the week that was. To read past editions of the Weekly Digest, click here.
The SAME Board of Direction met Wednesday in Charleston, S.C., [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Industry Forecast Predicts Increased Construction Activity in 2010
Buoyed by gains in housing and public works projects, the value of overall construction starts could increase by as much as 11 percent in 2010, according to McGraw-Hill Construction’s 2010 Construction Outlook, released last week. Last fall, the report, an annual prediction of construction activity for the following calendar year, predicted a 25 percent decline [...]
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