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Mortenson Highlights BIM for Road Construction and Infrastructure Project

Best Practices Construction Law

Call it 4D modeling for infrastructure projects. Call it "BIM Leaves the Building and Hits the Road." " Whatever you want to call it, you will want to see this Autodesk video about Mortenson Construction that highlights the advantages of BIM for road construction and other infrastructure projects.

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Building for infrastructure durability

Construction Specifier

When building infrastructure, there is often little, if any, ability to control the environment in which the roads, bridges, drainage culverts, or other public structures are built. Infrastructure must be made to fit the environment, which already exists to support a healthily functioning society. Photo © BigStockPhoto.com.

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UK Court Orders Designer of Award-Winning Box-Jacking Project To Pay $2 Million

ENR Construction

based infrastructure unit of SNC Lavalin Group to compensate the design-build contractor on the East Kent Access Road Phase 2 project for remedial work on the highway and legal costs for deficient work. Technology and Construction Court ordered WS Atkins, the U.K.-based

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Crumbling Buildings, Roads, and Dams – Money Isn’t the Problem

Building Information Management

Furthermore the overall construction process generally wastes 30%-60% of funds on delays, change orders, reworks, low productivity, and legal disputes. This is very odd considering the fact that “50 percent of existing roads don’t carry enough traffic to generate gas taxes sufficient to pay for their own maintenance.”

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4 considerations for increasing biodiversity in construction projects

BD+C

The increased focus—and strengthened legal requirements—on biodiversity will have significant reverberations. For example, access roads are created in large project sites for vehicles and machinery. While some disruption is inevitable, the routes of access roads should be planned to minimize their impact and maintain green corridors.

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Get some useful tips to conduct your leveling survey at home

Construction Cost Estimating

While going to layout something for road, bridge, dam or pipe line, land surveying plays an important role. Surveying is done to find out the legal boundaries among the parcels of property, the position of current infrastructure, the topography as well as slopes of the land.

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The Distaste for Toll Roads in the U.S. | ENR: Engineering News.

ENR Construction

Search our site: Infrastructure. The Distaste for Toll Roads in the U.S. Toll roads—just those two words bring out extreme reactions. The cumulative investment in toll roads from 1800 to 1830 was $25.5 The cumulative investment in toll roads from 1800 to 1830 was $25.5 contact us. industry jobs. Environment.

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