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Modular Can Be High End

Pro Builder

Joseph Tanney, a founder of Resolution 4 Architecture in New York City, who has been designing modular homes since 2002, said today’s modular homes can be very high end. Joseph Tanney, a founder of Resolution 4 Architecture in New York City, who has been designing modular homes since 2002, said today’s modular homes can be very high end.

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Lean methodology is ignored by the construction sector

Job Order Contracting

The Foundations of lean construction. Lean manufacturing of construction components. Alarcón (Ed.), Lean Construction (pp. Rotterdam, Netherlands: Balkema Publishers. Koskela, L., Ballard, G., & Tommelein, I. In Best, R. & & Valence, V. Design and Construction: Building in Value. Oxford, UK: Butterworth-Heinemann, Elsevier.

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Litigation Over First Ever LEED Platinum Building Tarnishes Green Building

Green Building Law Update

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation v. Weyerhaeuser Company arose from the construction in 1999 of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s headquarters in Annapolis, Maryland. In 2001 and 2002, the leakage was investigated by two outside consultants hired by Clark. The complaint focused on the deterioration of the Parallams.

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Turning R&D into practice

BD+C

In 2002, a couple of years before he died, Charles J. Pankow, Founder and Chairman of design-build firm Charles Pankow Builders, established a research foundation in his name. A pioneer in concrete-forming and moment-framing technology, Pankow was frustrated with the U.S. of revenue for R&D in the health sector and 4.0%

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Characteristics of Strategic Collaboration and Efficient Construction Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

Russell Sage Foundation. Partnering is the foundation of a learning organization. Constituting partnering through boundary objects. Construction Management and Economics, 28(6), 615-628. Edelman, L., Scarbrough, H., & Swan, J. Social practices and the. management of knowledge in project environments. Management, 21, 157-166.

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What Are Planted  Column, Floating Column, Hanging Column, and Stub Column

CivilJungle

The floating column (Planted Column, Hanging Column, and Stub Column) is nothing but a vertical member or element that rests on a beam but does not transfer the load directly to the foundation. The floating column is a vertical member which rest on a beam but does not transfer the load directly to the foundation.

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Sports/Entertainment Best Project - Ski Jumps at Utah Olympic Park

ENR Construction

After the 2002 Winter Olympic Games and more than two decades of use, the Olympic Legacy Foundation decided to replace its warped-wood aerial ski ramps and staircases near Park City, Utah.

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