New Jersey Business

Nj Motorsports Park About to Wave Green Flag

Planned for later phases are: restaurants, retail stores, multiple hotels, a conference center, a research and development campus and trackside resort villas, which will contain access to a sports pavilion and activity center.

Coriell Institute Launches Personalized Medicine Collaborative

The main focus of the study is to uncover presently unknown genes which elevate a person's risk for cancer and other complex diseases, to understand why people often respond differently to treatments, and to explore how the resulting information can be best viewed and utilized by participants and their physicians in a secure, user-friendly, web-browser-based system.

Restoring the Brownsfields: An Inside Look at Environmental Cleanup

If the state adopts the licensing program, regulators would oversee it as well to ensure that only qualified firms and individuals participate, and that approvals by licensed professionals are consistent with state requirements, says Joseph Fallon, president of Environmental Liability Management in Princeton and a former DEP manager. "Costs for remediating are fairly stable, although to dig material out and haul it away is more expensive as the cost of diesel fuel rises," says Peter Sorge, o...

Union Carpenter Training Centers 'Build' Skills From the Ground Up

Among carpenters' many roles, Cooney once wrote that building owners, corporate real estate professionals or facility managers can work with "union carpenters and contractors on a variety of projects."

American Conference On Diversity: Helping Businesses, Clients and Customers Get Along

While global corporations in the state are accustomed to dealing with employees, customers and suppliers from different regions of the world and excel in inclusiveness, it is small- to mid-sized companies that need to better understand the benefits of diversity. For businesses, municipal and state government agencies and non-profit organizations, ACOD offers educational programs, training and consultation within the ShopRite Center for Workplace Diversity.

$1.3-Million Grant Extends Basic Skills Training to Hundreds of Nj Companies and Their Employees

New classes will include: various levels of Microsoft Office personal computer skills training; various levels of English as a Second Language training; specific communications courses in verbal, written and customer service skills; and mathematics and measurements skills training.

32nd Annual Office Review

The sub-prime problems choking finance and real estate investment impact New Jersey on another front: the financial services sector, which has been a driver of job creation and demand for office space in the state during its most recent years of economic prosperity, is not as vibrant as it was. The sluggish state of the commercial real estate market was evidenced in the first quarter of this year, as it absorbed just 92,400 square feet of the 151.7 million square-foot northern and central NJ...

A 'Conservative' Approach: How Energy Companies and the State Are Helping to Reduce Your Power Usage

[...] financial incentives are available whether a company is: the corner grocery store that wants to replace 10 light fixtures with more energy-efficient ones; a large warehouse looking to install multiple, more-efficient conveyor belt motors; or a company desiring to save energy - and therefore money - by using the most efficient systems when constructing a new building or expanding an old one.

Altering Workplace Space

Whether it's the harsh realization of global warming or the negative impact of higher energy prices (oil, natural gas and electricity included) on the bottom line, architects are in a sea change in how they are approaching their craft. Though green design is perhaps the biggest trend in architecture today, other things are occurring, such as: the use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) design software technology, which delivers three-dimensional modeling with more detailed project informa...