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FEMA Recommends I-Codes For National Flood Insurance Program

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A Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) flood plain management report says current model building codes, such as the International Codes (I-Codes), have flood provisions that are consistent with NFIP requirements for buildings and structures. Posted by Heidi Schwartz.

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INSURANCE |. « The Fundamentals of Building Information Modeling (BIM). This, after all, is the foundation of the insurance industry. And risk can be a profit center, since insurance companies obviously make money. So what do construction and insurance companies have in common? STRATEGY |. MANAGEMENT |.

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Natural Disasters Cause $85 Billion Global Economic Loss During First Half Of 2013

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Impact Forecasting , the catastrophe model development center of excellence at Aon Benfield (the global reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor of Aon plc), has issued its mid-year natural disaster analysis, which aggregates the key global natural disaster perils data for the first half of 2013. Posted by Heidi Schwartz.

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DebunkTheBIM: ?Insurance is all about risk management?

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I consider myself to be a model-based construction information practitioner (shortened to a ‘BIM- meddler’) rather than an ‘expert’ or even ‘specialist’ Tuesday, December 6, 2011. “Insurance is all about risk management” Says Walid Shidani in his interview given to Rupert Wright, this week.

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Julian Construction Inc. Outlines Policy Of 100% Quality Insurance.

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Simple Steps For Preventing Foundation Damage In A Home » 09/17/2012. Outlines Policy Of 100% Quality Insurance. ” Julian Construction owns its own company and is built on a “no middlemen” model – no salesmen, no subcontractors. Outlines Policy Of 100% Quality Insurance : Comments.

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Construction Business Owner

INSURANCE |. The Business of Construction Risk Management » The Fundamentals of Building Information Modeling (BIM). Building Information Modeling (BIM) is no different. Modeling & Design. To produce a digital model, the objects are assembled like a three-dimensional puzzle. STRATEGY |. MANAGEMENT |.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

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INSURANCE |. Tablet Computing and Enterprise Software » World of Concrete 2012: Products Get Smarter, Interfaces Mimic Streamlined Design of Smart Phones and Tablets. Tekla had a message for contractors at the show: Don’t wait until you are contracted on a job to utilize the power of BIM (building information modeling).