Showing posts with label Project. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Project. Show all posts
Friday, June 22, 2012
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Open House on CSX Project Will Have Job, Business Information
WINTER HAVEN | Information on jobs and business opportunities for the much-anticipated CSX rail terminal will be available at an open house at the Chain of Lakes Complex in Winter Haven on May 3, according to a release on the city of Winter Haven's Facebook page.
Information on job opportunities, business opportunities and the project overall will be available to the public at the open house.
The open house is sponsored by Polk Works, the city of Winter Haven, TransDevelop Group and Evansville Western Railway, the CSX subsidiary that will build the site.
The open house will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Chain of Lakes gymnasium at 210 Cypress Gardens Blvd.
Construction on the Pollard Road extension, which will be the main road into the business park and rail terminal, has already begun.
CSX officials have said construction on the rail terminal will begin in the middle or second half of 2012.
The Winter Haven rail terminal is needed to handle freight train traffic moving from Orlando-area rail lines to the line that runs through Polk County and downtown Lakeland.
Evansville Western Railway has said it expects to create 800 construction-related jobs during the initial construction and plans to work with Polk Works to hire additional help.
The company also plans to use Polk County suppliers and subcontractors when possible.
Estimates for the project's total jobs impact have been as high as 6,000, counting jobs at the rail terminal and at a business park to be built on 932 acres around the terminal.
Some Lakeland and Wahneta residents have opposed the new rail terminal because they said the increased freight train traffic running through Polk County will decrease their quality of life.
CSX will still utilize the rail lines SunRail will use, but only when SunRail is not operating.
Residents in Winter Haven who live near the proposed site also have voiced concerns about the amount of noise from the rail terminal and added traffic on nearby roads.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Open House on CSX Project Will Have Job, Business Information - The Ledger
WINTER HAVEN | Information on jobs and business opportunities for the much-anticipated CSX rail terminal will be available at an open house at the Chain of Lakes Complex in Winter Haven on May 3, according to a release on the city of Winter Haven's Facebook page.
Information on job opportunities, business opportunities and the project overall will be available to the public at the open house.
The open house is sponsored by Polk Works, the city of Winter Haven, TransDevelop Group and Evansville Western Railway, the CSX subsidiary that will build the site.
The open house will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Chain of Lakes gymnasium at 210 Cypress Gardens Blvd.
Construction on the Pollard Road extension, which will be the main road into the business park and rail terminal, has already begun.
CSX officials have said construction on the rail terminal will begin in the middle or second half of 2012.
The Winter Haven rail terminal is needed to handle freight train traffic moving from Orlando-area rail lines to the line that runs through Polk County and downtown Lakeland.
Evansville Western Railway has said it expects to create 800 construction-related jobs during the initial construction and plans to work with Polk Works to hire additional help.
The company also plans to use Polk County suppliers and subcontractors when possible.
Estimates for the project's total jobs impact have been as high as 6,000, counting jobs at the rail terminal and at a business park to be built on 932 acres around the terminal.
Some Lakeland and Wahneta residents have opposed the new rail terminal because they said the increased freight train traffic running through Polk County will decrease their quality of life.
CSX will still utilize the rail lines SunRail will use, but only when SunRail is not operating.
Residents in Winter Haven who live near the proposed site also have voiced concerns about the amount of noise from the rail terminal and added traffic on nearby roads.
Open House on CSX Project Will Have Job, Business InformationBy RYAN E. LITTLE TheLedger.comApril 26, 2012 10:29 AMWINTER HAVEN | Information on jobs and business opportunities for the much-anticipated CSX rail terminal will be available at an open house at the Chain of Lakes Complex in Winter Haven on May 3, according to a release on the city of Winter Haven's Facebook page.
Information on job opportunities, business opportunities and the project overall will be available to the public at the open house.
The open house is sponsored by Polk Works, the city of Winter Haven, TransDevelop Group and Evansville Western Railway, the CSX subsidiary that will build the site.
The open house will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Chain of Lakes gymnasium at 210 Cypress Gardens Blvd.
Construction on the Pollard Road extension, which will be the main road into the business park and rail terminal, has already begun.
CSX officials have said construction on the rail terminal will begin in the middle or second half of 2012.
The Winter Haven rail terminal is needed to handle freight train traffic moving from Orlando-area rail lines to the line that runs through Polk County and downtown Lakeland.
Evansville Western Railway has said it expects to create 800 construction-related jobs during the initial construction and plans to work with Polk Works to hire additional help.
The company also plans to use Polk County suppliers and subcontractors when possible.
Estimates for the project's total jobs impact have been as high as 6,000, counting jobs at the rail terminal and at a business park to be built on 932 acres around the terminal.
Some Lakeland and Wahneta residents have opposed the new rail terminal because they said the increased freight train traffic running through Polk County will decrease their quality of life.
CSX will still utilize the rail lines SunRail will use, but only when SunRail is not operating.
Residents in Winter Haven who live near the proposed site also have voiced concerns about the amount of noise from the rail terminal and added traffic on nearby roads.
Copyright 2012 TheLedger.com - All rights reserved. Restricted use only.Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Bid to boost gas project
CONTRACTING companies based in Orange could be offered international business opportunities as Orange looks to strengthen its relationship with its sister city Mount Hagen.
The city, in Papua New Guinea’s Western Highlands Province, is set to embark on a mining project to extract three trillion cubic metres of liquified natural gas (LNG).
Discussions between Orange City Council and Western Highlands dignitaries, including governor Tom Olga, during a visit to the central west this week have opened up the possibility of using Orange tradespeople, particularly those contracted at Cadia Valley Operations, to assist in the multi-billion-kina project.
“The project will be in operation for 20 to 30 years,” Orange City Council enterprise services director Stephen Sykes said.
“It’s a significant capital development and will require ongoing maintenance.
“It would be a place to have business opportunities in Mount Hagen.”
Mr Sykes said the work carried out at Mount Hagen would be similar to development and maintenance work at Newcrest and other mines in NSW.
Mr Olga said the LNG project was a great move for Mount Hagen, with benefits stretching all the way to its sister city.
“This is a good opportunity in the highlands,” he said.
“It’s also a great opportunity to invest in mining up there.
“There are a lot of things the Orange industry could produce up there.”
The discussion came after Mr Olga was criticised for not encouraging development and business opportunities in Mount Hagen to attract investment from international companies.
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Bahrain housing project has opportunities for Philippine contractors - Global Nation
By Tina G. Santos
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Philippine Daily Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines—Filipino contractors may get opportunities to work on Bahrain’s social housing project if talks between Philippine and Bahraini officials are fruitful, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Saturday.
The project was taken up by Philippine Ambassador to Bahrain Ma. Corazon Bahjin during a courtesy call on Bahrain Housing Minister Basim Yacoub Al Hamer in Manama last February 16, the DFA said in a press statement.
The Bahraini government plans to build 4,100 housing units in various places in the country for its citizens. The project, a top priority of the Bahraini government, was awarded to Naseej, a major real estate developer in the Middle East, and is expected to be completed in three years.
The Philippine envoy discussed with the Bahraini housing official the matter of “how Filipino contractors could participate in the housing projects and possibly be part of the consortium,” the DFA said.
“She emphasized that the Philippines boasts of highly qualified real estate developers and construction companies, architectural and engineering service providers that could partner with Bahraini companies in exploring business and investment opportunities in the real estate development and construction projects,” it added.
In return, Bahrain’s housing minister “expressed gratitude for the embassy officials’ visit and looks forward for a more active engagement in the near future,” according to the DFA.
Bahjin also invited the minister to visit the Philippines and see for himself the development of social housing projects in the country, including the Gawad Kalinga.
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Project Portfolio Management (PPM) Brings Opportunity to CIOs in 2012 - CMSWire
Call it what you like — SharePoint, Intuit, Central Desktop — project portfolio management is here to stay. A few months ago, Gartner predicted that the role of Project Portfolio Management (PPM) would begin to evolve from just managing business projects to managing value and change. As business strategies transform to focus on both people and technologies, PPM has the potential to help the enterprise get things done.
A recent article published by Alex Adamopoulos, CEO and Paul Dolman-Darrall, Executive Vice President for Global Delivery and Strategy at Emergn, an international PPM and agile consultancy based in London, lists 5 reasons why PPM will matter to CIOs in 2012. Among them, the authors cite improvements to workflow and idea sharing, as well as increased alignment between IT and the bottom line.
Much of the discussion centered around PPM and its integration into the enterprise is very similar to ones focused on elements of social business. But are they necessarily one and the same? In her article “Social Business Success in 2012: Simplicity is the Key,” my colleague, Chelsi Nakano, writes
Social Business tools facilitate communication — they make it easier to have and to come by, but they can’t be depended on to fully actualize it."
We’d argue that PPM is similar because it still relies on manual processes to get the work done. That’s not to say that its presence doesn’t bring some benefits. Both Adamopoulous and Dolman-Darrall are correct when they say
IT involvement earlier in the lifecycle will contribute to better decisions and choices made with the business. It will improve visibility into necessary investments and resources required to meet demand and will allow a more transparent environment for how things get done."
When it comes to selecting the right PPM tool, it’s important to understand the ways it can add value to the project management process. Most offices have their own methods of tracking assignments but may lack elements that encourage knowledge-sharing and cross-promotion. As a result, Emergn calls on PPM to add trust and integrity into the process. They write
… a CIO who gets IT involved earlier in the portfolio management process and embedded more will also help craft a working model that has much better checkpoints and gateways for decision-making and therefore result in a framework with more integrity and less bureaucracy."
It behooves IT to get involved in many cross-departmental initiatives from eDiscovery to marketing to vendor selections, but their presence is not usually welcomed. IT has an image problem, but their guidance and expertise can help companies avoid bottlenecks and imminent risks, as well as help save money, time and energy. It’s not surprising that IT needs to add PPM to their long list of things they need to embrace. According to the authors, by inserting themselves into the process earlier,
it will improve visibility into necessary investments and resources required to meet demand and will allow a more transparent environment for how things get done."
The secret to PPM success in 2012 seems to do more with the role of CIO than with actual technology. Emergn agrees, writing that “CIOs who look at portfolio management as a lifecycle that permeates the whole business have an opportunity to be more strategic and insightful.” If the IT department aligns with business strategies, it will be poised to bring great things to life in 2012.
Project Portfolio Management (PPM) Brings Opportunity to CIOs in 2012Call it what you like -- SharePoint, Intuit, Central Desktop -- project portfolio management is here to stay. A few months ago, Gartner predicted that the role of Project Portfolio Management (PPM) would begin to evolve from just managing business projects to managing value and change. As business strategies transform to focus on both people and technologies, PPM has the potential to help the enterprise get things done.
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