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LEAN Construction Framework – A Robust Solution fully supported by tools and services

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Compensation”. “A survey of the adoption and use of target costing in. Dutch firms”. International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, New York, 84. (3) 3) 293-305. Formiga, A. Target costing implementation for cost estimating in. construction firms of Porto Alegre/RS, Brazil”. Implantação do uso do Target. Porto Alegre-RS”.

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Flummox: EPA Withdraws New Phase I Environmental Site Assessment Rule

Green Building Law Update

EPA has withdrawn the new ASTM E1527-13 “Standard Practice for Environmental Site Assessments: Phase I Environmental Site Assessment Process” as satisfying the requirements for conducting all appropriate inquiries under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act. the Superfund law).

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Phase l Environmental Site Assessment Standard Being Revised

Green Building Law Update

ASTM first published a standard for Phase I Environmental Site Assessments in 1993, with published revisions in 1994, 1997, 2000, 2005, and 2013, so that the standard is being again revised is not surprising, but some of the changes warrant heightened scrutiny. 9601) and petroleum products.” The ASTM E50.02

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Updated Phase l Environmental Site Assessment is Published But.

Green Building Law Update

ASTM first published a standard for Phase I Environmental Site Assessments in 1993, with revisions in 1994, 1997, 2000, 2005, and 2013, so that the standard has again been revised is not surprising, but some of the changes warrant heightened scrutiny. 9601) and petroleum products.”.

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Work Safe BC details sea lion and lemur and bear attacks oh my!

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WorkSafe BC, Workers’ Compensation Board of British Columbia, has released information about the number and type animal attacks from 2005 to 2011. From 2005 to 2011, WorkSafe BC accepted: 13 claims, including 1 fatality, for injuries caused by direct contact between a bear and a worker.

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WILG president talks workplace injuries

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One of the biggest hurdles facing injured workers are politicians and state legislatures that are constantly tinkering with the workers’ compensation system, in a misguided attempt to make their respective state more “business friendly.” What is a common fallacy about workplace injuries?

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Building in Chicago: Embracing the US adventure and spirit

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By the time we expanded to North Carolina, the business was in an acute death-spiral — we survived, barely, by virtually shutting down the entire US business in 2005. As the business reached its near-death experience in 2005/06 we switched our US compensation model from salary/commission to pure commission.

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