Mon.Jan 16, 2017

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Strategies to Conquer Poor Ground Conditions

Construction Business Owner

Over the past several years, market research has shown the increasing use of composite matting on a variety of projects and applications, including to create temporary roads and work pads in challenging environments. Research points to an uptick in demand due to the advances in composite matting technology and manufacturing that produces a cost-effective, reliable product.

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Properties of Hardened Concrete with Blast Furnace Slag (GGBFS)

The Constructor

The physical properties of Ground Granulated blast furnace slag (GGBFS) provides advantages to the concrete in fresh state as well as in its hardened.

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Vista 6.13 Accounting Enhancements

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Vista Accounting is a proven, construction-specific software suite that meets the financial needs and requirements of contractors across.

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Job Order Contract Unit Price Book

Job Order Contracting

Financial transparency, local research, current actionable data, the use of common terms in plain English and MasterFormat data organization are requisite elements of any Job Order Contact Unit Price Book, UPB. The 4BT JOC Unit Price Book delivers all of these, and more: Locally researched labor, material, and equipment line items/tasks. Clear line item descriptions written using industry standard terms, with minimal use of abbreviations, in plain easily understood English.

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Optimize Operational Processes With an Industry-Specific ERP

As the use of Enterprise Resource Planning systems in the construction industry is critical to optimizing operations, it's critical that decision makers conduct a thorough software evaluation to find the one that best aligns to their needs.

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Vista 6.13 Operations Enhancements

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Viewpoint offers tools that manage your construction operations, your service operations, and material sales.

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Vista 6.13 Platform Enhancements

Viewpoint Construction Technology

The Vista platform is the technology that underpins the various modules that make up Vista.

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Three Utility Workers Die in Key Largo Manhole

Construction Equipment

Deputy Becky Herrin, public information officer with the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office reported three construction workers doing work on Long Key Road in Key Largo, Florida died on the jobsite this morning. Three workers had gone down a 15-foot deep drainage manhole to investigate why the newly paved road was settling near mile marker 106 and became trapped in the hole.

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6 Tips for Construction Project Management

Viewpoint Construction Technology

We’ve come up with six tips for simplifying project management culled from our 35 years.

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Deere Adds Foresight Intelligence to List of Endorsed Data Solutions

Construction Equipment

John Deere is adding Foresight Intelligence to its stable of construction data solutions to increase dealer efficiencies and customer uptime. The collaboration utilizes Foresight’s Intelligent Alert Triage Center (IATC) and helps John Deere dealers and customers better manage daily machine alerts. IATC enables dealers to easily capture, consolidate and prioritize diagnostic trouble codes, oil sampling results, preventative maintenance alerts and more into one centralized and secure portal.

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The Ultimate Procurement Software Buyer’s Guide

Choosing the right procurement software is a crucial step in ensuring third-party risk management, process governance, and bidding efficiency. With so many procurement solutions to choose from, it can be overwhelming without a frame of reference and a solid starting point. This free buyer’s guide will cover: Benefits of Procurement Software –– Why do you need it?

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Building codes for existing buildings evaluated in new white paper

BD+C

The National Institute of Building Sciences National Council of Governments on Building Codes and Standards (NCGBCS) issued a white paper that analyzes how existing building codes can be improved and better enforced. .

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Your marketing free rides: Are you taking advantage of them?

Construction Marketing Ideas

There are plenty of “free rides” in architectural, engineering and construction marketing, if you know when and how to capture them. By “free ride” I mean a marketing resource that requires very little if any investment in time or energy and provides useful advantages to your business. Most free rides aren’t really truly “free” in […].

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Oscar Niemeyer-designed Hotel Nacional reopens as five-star hotel over 20 years after shuttering

BD+C

In 1995 the 33-story Hotel Nacional in Rio de Janeiro ran into financial troubles, went bust, and closed its doors. The building, designed by the famed Brazilian modernist Oscar Niemeyer, sat in its derelict state until 2009 when, as Dezeen.com reports, a group led by Marcelo Limirio Gonçalves purchased the tower for approximately $25 million.

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Interior Construction & Design: Building Smart from the Inside

The Korte Company

Considerable thought goes into determining how to build a building. How big should it be? Where’s the best location to build? Will it cause traffic mayhem? Will it be a jewel or an eyesore? External considerations have their merits, but one needs to equally be cognizant of what needs to be included inside. Accessibility, adaptability and code compliance all require much consideration.

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Stop Making These Mistakes and Start Scaling Your Specialty Contractor Business

Anything that is built on a poor foundation will soon crumble from the ground up. This is literally the case in the construction stage of projects and it applies just the same during the pre-construction stage. This free eBook is your ultimate guide to scaling your business with customizable software as early as during the bidding stage.