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A Guide to Making Winter Your Best Construction Season

Safety Services Company

Along with these challenges, acquiring proper qualifications and certifications is crucial for ensuring a safe and efficient work environment. These platforms consider the risks or hazards that can occur, how contractors will minimize them, operations are environmentally conscious, and safety procedures.

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A Look at Lumber Prices From the Supply Side

Pro Builder

I can say with confidence that the market conditions of 2020 and early 2021 are examples of a supply chain and pricing environment most of us have truly never encountered. . Lumber Prices—How We Got Here. By now, the story is cemented of how we arrived in the situation we face today. What’s Happening Now for LBM Dealers.

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Autodesk and AWS are Helping Construction Firms Gain Useful Insights from Their Data 

Autodesk Construction Cloud

And in today’s competitive and uncertain environment, getting your hands on the correct information at the right time is more critical than ever. This allows you to automatically flag safety issues or areas of non-compliance, thus reducing project risk. The data you and your teams need, when you need it.

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Construction is NOT complex…. People are. Successful Construction Project Delivery Requirements

Job Order Contracting

Early and ongoing communication of scope of work requirements using detailed tasks within a collaborative environment optimized planning, procurement, and project delivery. IMPROVE Construction Cost Control Improve cost control by using common core information, including a locally researched detail unit price database.

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Building for better fire resilience in WUI zones

Construction Specifier

Photo courtesy ROCKWOOL North America Photo courtesy By Rick Roos Wildfires continue to make headlines and the long-term prognosis is concerning, as experts forecast more of the same in coming years. Communities adjacent to and surrounded by wildland are at varying degrees of risk from wildfires. Primarily for affordability.

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The importance of keeping construction daily logs for every site activity

Lets Build

Skipping these logs increases your risk of a small issue becoming a massive one because no one documented it. Without proper documentation and construction daily logs, the risk of misunderstandings that lead to delays rises, and communication becomes strained.

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Contractors Should Beware of Recovery Risks | ENR: Engineering.

ENR Construction

Environment. Contractors Should Beware of Recovery Risks. Description: Contractors face recovery risk when they take on too much work after they’ve depleted their staff, cash and other resources. Industry forecasts. Risk management. BONUS: ENR Future Tech & ENR Risk Review at no additional charge.

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