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SUCCESS IS NOT SERENDIPITOUS: MAKING CONSTRUCTION INNOVATION WORK
Pages 47-50

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... The U.S. share of that is about $500 billion, according to a recent National Science Foundation-Civil Engineering Research Foundation survey (NSF/CERF)
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... Figure 1 illustrates one of the initiatives which I have helped to develop at the National Science Foundation. It is called Civil Infrastructure Systems and is a $55 million initiative.
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... They may be more environmentally friendly and provide the feedback and the control to the user to make it more comfortable to stay in. These are some of those attributes that we think are the payoffs.
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... Mr. Cheyrey received his engineering degree from the {core Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees in Paris.
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