Secondly, the outcome-based approach requires companies to map out goals more precisely than with time-and-materials models.

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They may offer not only, potential savings over time-and-materials approaches, but also the confidence to push forward with other initiatives.

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One improvement, suggests Mr Sokolski, would be to install more real-time remote-monitoring cameras, so inspectors can check more reliably that materials and equipment are not being diverted to covert use.

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He also saw the functional and commercial vernacular of Liverpool as a source for a more familiar and time-tested kind of design, and he began to use local materials, like red brick, to modify the structural glass and steel of the university buildings at Cambridge and Leicester done in the late '50s and early '60s, without sacrificing the radical rethinking of program and space that modernism encouraged.

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The S3-BT speakers are based on an essential, time-honored principle: good sound depends on intelligent design and superior materials.

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As a result, production the bioengineered chemicals, materials and living systems is limited by the time-consuming and resource-intensive processes involved in producing them.

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The funding will be used to employ a part-time officer, to develop volunteers' skills and pay for equipment and educational materials for communities within the project area.

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The MeXvi product allows families to live in their own land while at the same time providing them with construction materials as well as design and technical assistance to build a high-quality home.

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