X-Nico

unusual facts about Build-Operate-Transfer



A-Train

Map construction adds the ability to build custom maps and terrains, and included pre-built cities Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe.

A35 autoroute

On the German side of the frontier, plans to build a final stretch of Autobahn to connect the French A35 directly with the German A65 at Kandel were not implemented during the 1990s when the focus of Autobahn construction switched to the eastern side of the country.

Active heave compensation

AHC winches are used in ROV-systems and for lifting equipment that is to operate near or at the seabed.

Agadir Crisis

Anglo-German tensions were high at this time partly due to an arms race between Imperial Germany and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland which included German plans to build a fleet that would be two thirds of the size of Britain's fleet.

Agua Caliente, El Salvador

The Salvadorian government had plans to build a hydroelectric dam north of the town, the Cimarron Hydroelectric project, that would have diverted flow from the Lempa River and would have increased the flow of water downstream into the Metayate River.

Alejandro Da Silva

In 2005 Da Silva returned to Paraguay to rejoin Cerro Porteño where he played until his transfer to Newell's Old Boys in 2007.

ASCI White

It was built as stage three of the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI) started by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration to build a simulator to replace live WMD testing following the moratorium on testing started by President George H. W. Bush in 1992 and extended by Bill Clinton in 1993.

Avery Waddell

He was the voice of the main protagonist Marcus Reed in the 2005 video game True Crime: New York City, as well as the voice of the main protagonist in the "Build a Label" mode of the 2007 video game Def Jam: Icon.

B4GALT5

They encode type II membrane-bound glycoproteins that appear to have exclusive specificity for the donor substrate UDP-galactose; all transfer galactose in a beta1,4 linkage to similar acceptor sugars: GlcNAc, Glc, and Xyl.

Boys and Girls High School

A new building was planned on the east side of Nostrand Avenue between from Halsey and Macon Streets, designed by Superintendent of Buildings James W. Naughton, but by the time it opened in 1886, enrollment had increased to the point where it was decided to use this building as the girls' high school and to and build a separate building for the boys.

CaBIG

In July 2009, caBIG announced a collaboration with the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation to build an online cohort of women willing to participate in clinical trials.

China National Petroleum Corporation

SAPET (a CNPC subsidiary) signed a service contract with the government of Peru to operate Block VII in the Talara basin.

Christian Nørgaard

In August 2013 Christian Nørgaard made a €360K transfer from the German side Hamburger SV and signed a four-year-contract with the Danish giants Brøndby IF which ties him to the club until the summer 2017.

Commonwealth Railways CB class railcar

Following the extension of the standard gauge line from Port Augusta to Marree in 1957 and Whyalla, South Australia in 1972 the Budd cars began to operate to these destinations.

Cumberland Gap, Tennessee

In 1888, a work camp was established at Cumberland Gap by Scottish-born entrepreneur Alexander Arthur (1846–1912) to house workers needed to build a tunnel for the Knoxville, Cumberland Gap & Louisville Railroad.

East Midlands derby

The next direct transfer between the two clubs was Alan Hinton.

EMC Winton-engined switchers

EMC did not have a manufacturing plant ready to build the unit, so it was assembled by Bethlehem Steel of Wilmington, Delaware.

Ernest Failloubaz

In January 1911 Failloubaz received his new aircraft from Armand Dufaux, a Dufaux 5 biplane, later he acquired the licence to build it in Switzerland as Failloubaz-Licence Dufaux.

Getting Gotti

Getting Gotti is a 1994 TV film centered on a Brooklyn Assistant District Attorney named Diane Giacalone, and her attempts to build a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) case against John Gotti and the Gambino crime family.

Human trafficking in Bolivia

The government continued to operate four specialized anti-trafficking police units in La Paz, El Alto, Santa Cruz, and Cochabamba, and made preparations to open an additional six units along the frontiers with Brazil, Argentina, and Peru in 2010 with the support of a foreign government.

Joint Test Action Group

Tool vendors sometimes build products around free software like GCC and GDB, with GUI support frequently using Eclipse.

Leicester Falcons

However, in a controversial ending to the season, BAFANL stripped the Falcons of the conference title and deducted one game after being found to have not followed proper transfer procedure in the transfer of Jason Brisbane.

LIBT at Brunel University

LIBT students complete a one or two-year university transfer programme and, subject to meeting the required progression criteria, transfer into the second year of Brunel University’s three-year undergraduate BSc degree programmes in Business & Management, Information Systems & Computing and Economics & Finance.

Limón Dam

When completed, the project will help produce 4,000 GWh of electricity per year and transfer water from the Cajamarca region west to Lambayeque, near Olmos for the reclamation and irrigation of 43,500 hectares of farmland.

Loopt

That summer, Stanford sophomores Sam Altman and Nick Sivo worked to build the first prototype of Loopt.

Loughead F-1

Formerly with the Alco Hydro-Aeroplane Company in 1916, the Loughead brothers (Allan and Malcolm) started the Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Company in Santa Barbara, California to build the F-1 flying boat for their aerial sightseeing business.

Ludford, Lincolnshire

Montagu C. Allwood and his brothers, who grew up in a farming family in the village, moved to south of Burgess Hill in Sussex to build a plant nursery, which is now the largest retailer of carnation plants in the world.

Matthias Klotz

Matthias Klotz did not really build his instruments according to the classical Italian style but rather made them similar to those of masters from Fussen (a town in Bavaria) and Swabian (Southern Germany).

Merriam Theater

Lee and J.J. Shubert, theatrical producers and a founding members of the Theatrical Syndicate set out to build a theater memorializing their brother, Sam, who had died several years earlier in a railroad accident.

Michiel Veenstra

When parent company Veronica restarts Radio Veronica in 2002, Veenstra decides to transfer to this new station.

Milicz

Milicz is the site of one of the six Churches of Grace, which the Silesian Protestants were allowed to build with the permission of Emperor Joseph I of Habsburg, King of Bohemia, given at the Altranstädt Convention of 1707.

Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey

His idea was to build a model monastery for England, sharing his knowledge of the experience of the Roman traditions in an area previously more influenced by Celtic Christianity stemming from missionaries of Melrose and Iona.

MoonBaseOne

The current version of the game allows the player to compete in two adventures aimed at mining the lunar Regolith to find minerals, build additional mining robots, and complete adventures for other characters.

Nick Leslau

Thanks to his friend Tom Hunter, Leslau became interested in solving the world's problems: in 2006 they had a working holiday in Ayacucho, Peru; in 2007 to Malawi to help build an orphanage.

Nottingham Corporation Tramways

Powers were also sought at this time for the operation of motorbuses, and, in November, the Brush Traction Electric Engineering Company of Loughborough was approached to see if it were willing to operate two of its motorbuses in Nottingham for a trial period of three months.

Odhavram

Manji Jeram took the leadership to build Kutchi Ashram in Haridwar and started with a large personal donation and roamed whole India to collect monies from rich families of his community as well Patidar, Bhanushali, Mistri and other communities of Kutch.

Orotidine 5'-phosphate decarboxylase

This bifunctional enzyme is named UMP synthase and it also catalyzes the preceding reaction in pyrimidine nucleotide biosynthesis, the transfer of ribose 5-phosphate from 5-phosphoribosyl-1-pyrophosphate to orotate to form OMP.

Port of Brisbane

In January 2008, Port of Brisbane Corporation signed an agreement with Brisbane Container Terminals, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hutchison Port Holdings, subsidiary of Hutchison Whampoa, which Hutchison will operate berths 11 and 12 for 42 years.

R. Norris Shreve

After joining the Purdue University faculty in 1930, he helped to build the University’s School of Chemical Engineering, the Purdue-Taiwan Engineering Project, and National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan.

Raúl Rojas

The FU-Fighters, football-playing robots he helped build, were world champions in 2004 and 2005.

Ronald Lee Martin

In 1981 he left ABC to work for Merv Griffin's post-production studio, Trans American Video (TAV), where he worked with film and the telecine systems that transfer optical images to video.

Russell Beardsmore

He did not feature in a single competitive game when United won the first Premier League title in 1992–93, and at the end of the season signed for Bournemouth on a free transfer.

SK Group

SK's subsidiary companies all operate under the SK Management System (SKMS) which was developed, articulated and enhanced by SK’s Chairman, Chey Tae-won.

Time transfer

Examples of a one-way time transfer system are the clock on a church or town building and the ringing of their time-indication bells; time balls, radio clock signals such as LORAN, DCF77 and MSF; and finally the Global Positioning System which uses multiple one-way time transfers from different satellites, with positional information and other advanced means of delay compensations to allow receiver compensation of time and position information in real time.

Tonawanda Island Railroad

The railroad ceased to operate after the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) imposed an emergency order to prevent operation over a swing bridge that was found to be structurally deficient.

UKC Radio

When UKC Radio was granted a licence the chance was taken to build a full studios complex on the lowest floor of Eliot College.

Veselin Šljivančanin

The Judge Theodor Meron stated "that Mr. Šljivančanin was under a duty to protect the prisoners of war held at Ovčara and that this responsibility included the obligation not to allow the transfer of custody of the prisoners of a war to anyone without first satisfying himself that they would not be harmed. Mr. Mrkšić’s order to withdraw the JNA troops did not relieve him of his position as an officer of the JNA."

Vincenzo Iaquinta

Under new coach Antonio Conte in 2011-12, Iaquinta, Amauri and Luca Toni did not play a single minute on the pitch, and all three ended up leaving the club during the January transfer window.

West Midlands bus routes 394 and 395

National Express West Midlands (NXWM) operate service 10, between Walsall and Burntwood and the 10A, between Walsall and Brownhills West/Ogley Hay at twenty-minute frequencies, giving a combined frequency of every 10 minutes.

Worek Plan

The remaining three submarines were to operate north of the Bay of Gdańsk : Sęp was further West near Rozewie, Ryś was further east, and Żbik in the middle.


see also

Djarum

In 2004 the Djarum Group acquired a 30 year BOT contract from the government to develop and renovate Hotel Indonesia in Jakarta under the Grand Indonesia superblock project.

New Limpopo Bridge Ltd

Under a Build-Operate-Transfer concession agreement, New Limpopo Bridge (Pvt) Ltd has built and now operates the Alfred Beit Road Bridge over the Limpopo River between Musina in South Africa and Beitbridge in Zimbabwe.

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation

In early 2009, Harvard Business School wrote a case study on SMIC's business model, characterized as a Reverse Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT).