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Why Some Job Order Contracts Fail

Job Order Contracting

Even a JOC Plan Can Go Wrong. Facility managers and real property owners struggle with their numerous and ongoing renovation, repair, sustainability maintenance, and minor new construction projects. As a result backlogs seem to always grow and resources always inadequate to satisfy facility user needs. Job Order Contracting, JOC, is a proven solution to providing quality on-demand construction services on-time and on budget, and to reduce repair, renovation, and capital renewal backlogs.

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Effect of low 28 days cement strength on Concrete and Mortar

The Constructor

Effect of low 28 days cement strength on Concrete and Mortar Read More at Effect of low 28 days cement strength on Concrete and Mortar The.

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As construction rebounds, education sector spending flattens

BD+C

Construction investment in the education sector is still in a post-recession slump, even as spending on all construction continues to rise from its low point in early 2011. The latest “Construction Put in Place” estimates from the Census Bureau show total construction spending in August at $1.142 trillion. That’s a 97% recovery from the most recent spending peak in the first quarter of 2006, and 51.4% higher than the Census estimate for January 2011, $754.7 billion, which was the lowest point fo

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Steel Reinforcement

The Constructor

Is there any advanced software to calculate Steel reinforcement in beams & columns?

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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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At the awards ceremony: The frustration (and virtues) of awards competition

Construction Marketing Ideas

The annual Greater Ottawa Home Builders Association (GOHBA) Housing Design Awards gala has been something of a personal tradition for me and Vivian. I won the contract to publish the association’s internal newsletter in 1991, a couple of years before we married — so it has been a “date night” for us since the beginning of […].

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Edmonton’s PCL Builds New Oilers Arena

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The Ramifications of this IgCC Enactment are of National Import

Green Building Law Update

On September 28, 2016, the County Executive of Montgomery County, Maryland submitted Executive Regulation 21-15, which adopts the International Green Construction Code 2012, to the County Council. If the Council does not approve or disapprove the proposed IgCC within 60 days after receiving it, the green code is automatically approved. What is proposed is the boldest adoption of the IgCC anywhere.

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