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Progress on schedule┬áKeith Regan talks with a Tulsa Vision Builders project manager to learn how keeping the Tulsa Vision 2025 project on schedule is key to keeping it on budget and clearing the way for future work. Hoping to boost economic development for a generation to come, Tulsa County, Oklahoma officials convinced voters in 2003 to approve a one-penny, 13-year sales tax increase.

Trained on results┬áTestAmerica Laboratories, Inc. has seen steady growth in demand for its environmental testing services in recent years. Keith Regan learns how extensive training and investment in technology are key to meeting rising demand in a slowing economy. The facility that today is the Buffalo, New York, laboratory of TestAmerica Laboratories, Inc. has a long history of serving clients with environmental testing needs. In its early years the lab was run by a local landfill company.

A ray of Sundyne┬áSundyne Corporation is a company with a long heritage and advanced, market-leading products, as Ruari McCallion learns from company president Phil Ruffner. If you go to a process industries facility, youÔÇÖll find pumps all over the place. The same is true at a drug production plant or a food-processing factory. They are so widespread that one could think they were on the verge of commoditization. So it may be a little surprising to find a company making a good living selling quite a modest amountÔÇösay, 7,500 units a year.

Paving the way to the future┬áStoney Trail Constructors is a joint venture formed to build the Northeast Stoney Trail outside Calgary. Keith Regan learns how the public-private partnership design-build-operate approach is reaping savings in both time and cost. Compared to their neighbors to the south in the United States, Canadian government agencies have become far more comfortable with the public-private partnership model of designing, funding, building, and operating highways, bridges and other┬á infrastructure under a single contract.

Immaculate timing┬áJanet Mann tells Gay Sutton how Spartech CorporationÔÇÖs turnaround initiative has helped the company weather the financial downturn and prepared it for strong growth in the future. Being in the right place at the right time is acknowledged to be an essential ingredient for individual personal success. But for a business, the secret is in doing the right thing at the right time.