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Behind the Build: Interview with Jason Waddell, Director of Construction Technology at Batson-Cook

Autodesk Construction Cloud

We do commercial construction, pretty much anything vertical. Half of our business is in healthcare, our specialty, and the rest is commercial: schools, park decks, and any other type of vertical construction. Walk us through your career and what led you to become Director of Construction Technology.

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They’re Coming to Take Us Away

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

Thus far, they’ve been stymied by a handful of civil-liberties and air-safety fuddyduddys who wonder whether filling our skies with robot planes will fatally compromise our right to privacy, to say nothing of the occasional commercial airliner they may bump into. motorists are ready to welcome robot cars on American roads. Far West U.S.

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State of the Construction Industry: March Roundup

Viewpoint Construction Technology

One area where funding us up is with the U.S. Department of Defense, where a 5-percent increase would include $9.2 Speaking of the labor issue, the Q1 2019 Commercial Construction Index revealed that 70 percent of contractors are struggling to meet project deadlines thanks to a shortage of skilled workers.

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constructionattorneyblog: Sole Proximate Cause Defense Reaffirmed

Construction Lawyer

The cases with which he has been involved are varied and wide-ranging and include personal injury, breach of contract, criminal defense, commercial disputes, and consumer fraud. You are not our client and we are not your attorneys unless and until you enter into a written retainer agreement with us. Weil-McLain (Docket No.

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Construction Arbitration

Constructlaw

Arbitration is an important form of alternative dispute resolution used in the construction industry. Many construction disputes involve aspects that may make them challenging to litigate before US or foreign courts, including: Many individual claims. Voluminous evidence and documents. Multiple parties. See Queen Mary Univ.

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The Drone Age

Business Facilities

” In other words, the test sites will help FAA create federal regulations that will open the skies to a commercial drone industry that has the potential to become a growth sector worth hundreds of billions of dollars in coming years. For Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, the dawning of the Drone Age can’t come soon enough.

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AAR to Open New Aircraft Maintenance Facility in Duluth, MN

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

AAR , a provider of aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services to commercial airlines announced it has passed the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) certification approval process for a new aircraft maintenance facility in Duluth, MN. AAR's MRO facilities feature some of the most advanced equipment in the world.