BROCKTON, Mass., Oct. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Federal, state and local officials, solar experts, environmentalists and community leaders will gather today to celebrate the completion of the Brockton Brightfield, a 425- kilowatt (kW) photovoltaic (PV) solar energy system located on an 3.7 acre environmentally remediated brownfield in Brockton, Massachusetts.

The Brockton Brightfield is the largest solar energy plant in New England, and the largest brightfield -- an idle remediated "brownfield" transformed into a solar energy generating station -- in the nation.

The new brightfield establishes Brockton, long known as the City of Champions, as Massachusetts' solar energy champion, with the largest installed capacity of photovoltaic solar power of any city in the commonwealth.

Modular housing squabble resolved

A fight over which state agency should regulate modular homes -- considered by many the quickest way to replace the thousands of hurricane-destroyed homes -- has been temporarily resolved with an attorney general's opinion placing regulatory authority with the state contractors licensing board.

Manufactured homes are built on metal chassis with wheels and hauled to the home site in one piece. They are also called mobile homes or trailer homes. While the wheels can be removed and the chassis mounted or tied to a foundation, the law still considers the structure moveable.

Measuring the Value of BPM

Muru Chigateri, Director of Training and Education for Appian, oversees and provides the vision for various training offerings for the company's flagship product, Appian Enterprise, as well as the solutions built upon it. Muru did his graduate studies in Industrial & Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech. His research centers around design methodologies, performance measurement, process improvement, and change management.