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In 2009 VHB opened an office in Albany, New York. [25] In 2010 VHB acquired New York based Saccardi & Schiff and Orlando based MSCW. [26] [27] In 2011 VHB acquired New York–based Eng-Wong, Taub & Associates. [28] In 2012 VHB opened an office in South Portland, Maine. [29] In 2013 VHB acquired Raleigh, North Carolina–based Martin/Alexiou ...
Resilience is a multi-facet property, covering four dimensions: technical, organization, social and economic. [6] Therefore, using one metric may not be representative to describe and quantify resilience. In engineering, resilience is characterized by four Rs: robustness, redundancy, resourcefulness, and rapidity.
VHB may refer to: Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc., an American civil engineering firm; Vereinigte Huttwil-Bahnen, one of three Swiss railways that merged in 1997 to form Regionalverkehr Mittelland; Verkehrsverbund Hegau-Bodensee, a German transport association; Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt, publisher of the German business newspaper Handelsblatt
Anbaric Development Partners (Anbaric) is an American electric power transmission and storage development company located in Wakefield, Massachusetts. The company develops smart grid, [1] renewable energy, and large-scale electric transmission projects which use high-voltage direct current (HVDC) technology for clients in the United States and internationally.
Community resilience is the sustained ability of a community to use available resources (energy, communication, transportation, food, etc.) to respond to, withstand, and recover from adverse situations (e.g. economic collapse to global catastrophic risks). [1]
The study considered what action government should take to ensure that the UK’s infrastructure can cope with future changes, disruptions, shocks and accidents. It looked at how resilience can be assessed and improved, including through better design and application of new technologies. [31]
Hepatitis B is an infectious disease caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV) that affects the liver; [1] [6] it is a type of viral hepatitis. [7] It can cause both acute and chronic infection.
Hepatitis B vaccine is a vaccine that prevents hepatitis B. [13] The first dose is recommended within 24 hours of birth with either two or three more doses given after that. [13]