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How to properly assess structural wind damage

BD+C

The assessment of wind damage is important for both property owners and insurers because it helps to identify the extent of damage, necessary repairs, potential safety hazards, and facilitates progress toward eventual remediation. This holistic understanding leads to practical repair recommendations and claim resolutions.

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How to design for adaptive reuse: Don’t reinvent the wheel

BD+C

Before you bring in the demo crew, have a team of structural engineers help you find opportunities to save time, money and headaches. Your structural engineers may find that the existing bones present you with a lot of opportunities. Take a multidiscipline approach.

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PSMJ Enlists Five Industry Experts to Prepare Design Firm Leaders

PSMJ Resources

and liability insurance specialist Brian Hadar from Suncoast Insurance Associates. Joining the roundtable will be VHB senior principal Mike Carragher, Stantec VP Jeffrey Lloyd; Arent Fox lawyers Jamie Frankel, Esq., and Andrew Ross, Esq.;

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New Civil Engineering Technology 2022

CivilJungle

which also reduces building procurement and can assist in proactive building maintenance, and insurance costs. Modular construction includes structural building elements, individual components, room-sized modules and entire residential units. Civil Structures. Internet of Things. It includes: bridges. Civil Consultancy.

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Construction Legislation Now Pending in Washington

Construction Law Monitor

Hans Dunshee, (D-Snohomish) (D) on February 1, 2011, to allow lines of group disability insurance, except short-term or student-only plans, to be issued to more groups when certain conditions are met. House Bill 1853 (Regarding structural engineers). Introduced by Rep. Companion: SB 5617). Introduced by Rep.

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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: The Estimating.

Rory Woolsey

Rory Woolsey has worked in Management and Engineering for the construction industry for 35 years, starting as a construction laborer in Billings, Montana, in 1972. Mr. Woolsey has earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil/ Structural Engineering and a Masters degree in Business Administration. construction consultants.

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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: Mark It Up!

Rory Woolsey

Just the bare labor component includes adders such as fringe benefits, unemployment insurances (federal and state), social security taxes, public liability costs, and builders risk insurance. Mr. Woolsey has earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil/ Structural Engineering and a Masters degree in Business Administration.