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In 2017, Twitter released Twitter Lite, a PWA alternative to the official native Android and iOS apps. According to Twitter, Twitter Lite consumed only 1–3% of the size of the native apps. [46] Starbucks provides a PWA that is 99.84% smaller than its equivalent iOS app. After deploying its PWA, Starbucks doubled the number of online orders ...
The Public Works Administration (PWA), part of the New Deal of 1933, was a large-scale public works construction agency in the United States headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. It was created by the National Industrial Recovery Act in June 1933 in response to the Great Depression .
Public Works Administration, the construction agency of the US New Deal program; Patients' Welfare Association in Karachi, Pakistan; Progressive Writers' Association, in pre-partition India; The Polytechnic of Western Australia
The Williamsburg Houses were built in 1936–1938 under the auspices of the Housing Division of the Public Works Administration (PWA). Richmond Shreve was the chief architect of the project; the design team of nine other architects was led by the Swiss-American modernist William Lescaze. The construction contract was awarded to Starrett ...
Michael Likosky and Laura Norén 26 April 2012 - Institute for Public Knowledge, New York University Law & Public Finance Center on Selection Filter
The history of construction traces the changes in building tools, methods, techniques and systems used in the field of construction.It explains the evolution of how humans created shelter and other structures that comprises the entire built environment.
The National Industry Recovery Act set up the Public Works Administration (PWA) and the National Recovery Administration (NRA). The PWA used government money to build infrastructure, such as roads and bridges, for the state. This demand for construction created new jobs, which achieved Roosevelt's main priority.
The terms "construction collaboration" and "construction collaboration software" were coined in Australia by Aconex in 2001.[1] [citation needed] It was later adopted in 2003 in the UK when seven UK-based vendors joined together to form the Network for Construction Collaboration Technology Providers (NCCTP), to promote the benefits and use of collaborative technologies in the architecture ...