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The People Who Count Who Gets to Build the City
Prism Technical found a peculiar job hiding inside every civic megaproject: turning the promise of inclusion into names, hours, contracts and receipts.
The Ballot Comes Last
TeamCivX helps public agencies decide whether a funding measure deserves a place on the ballot - and has the rare discipline to stop when the voters say no.
Before the concrete: VSCE’s other construction work
A bus depot needs somewhere to park the buses. It also needs a closed street, a public hearing, and people who can keep the paperwork moving. Oakland’s VSCE has made a business of connecting those jobs.
The Government That Has to Make 25 Remote Communities Feel Like One Place
Nunavut runs a province-sized service stack across an Arctic map with no roads linking its communities. Its answer is a public institution designed around distance, partnership and Inuit values - and the difficult parts are the useful ones.
Ameresco Found a Way to Make Old Buildings Pay for Their Own Future
The Framingham company sells a practical bargain: modernize the systems everyone depends on, then use the avoided utility bill to help pay for the work. Now data centers are turning that old energy-services idea into a new power-infrastructure business.