FDR Safety

DECEMBER 1, 2017

OSHA recently announced another delay in the deadline for employers to electronically submit their 2016 injury and illness data to the agency. Not only will the data be online and searchable, the underlying documents will be public records subject to disclosure to the media, plaintiffs’ lawyers, and competitors.

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OSHA Employment Injury Drafting 185

Revit OpEd

AUGUST 13, 2015

I don't recall any mention of this appearing in the What's New documentation or presentations. I didn't find any help documentation to support this new feature. I stumbled into it the other day and meant to write about it but my aging Dell finally bit the dust and that distracted me. Interesting isn't it?

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BIM & Beam

MAY 1, 2015

This feature improves rebar documentation and supports better productivity for rebar detailing to enable proper quantification. Right now when you create rebar schedules, you have the possibility to list elements per member.

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Green Building Law Update

MARCH 13, 2016

Green Building Council has just announced that all new projects registering for LEED 2009 beginning on April 8, 2016 will need to satisfy increased minimum energy performance thresholds. You can read the specific changes in the Rating system document. USGBC reported the results of the balloting with 78.6

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Help Everybody Everyday

AUGUST 15, 2016

He didn’t like the government, so he wrote a document that started a war for independence. The post 3 Big Takeaways From Build Business 2016 appeared first on Help Everybody Everyday. He didn’t like the architecture in his city, so he became an architect and changed it. Jefferson was a person who took action.

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Viewpoint Construction Technology

JANUARY 31, 2018

In 2016, OSHA increased its penalties for the first time since 1990. If an incident does occur, you’ll need documentation to prove safety inspections have actually been completed. When you need to consult records of inspections or access safety-related documentation in a pinch, you won’t have any problem finding them.

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Green Building Law Update

DECEMBER 8, 2019

The architect or engineer of record shall indicate in the construction documents, the selected high-performance rating system used for design and construction with which, the project is compliant. ” On November 13, 2019, the Secretary of the Maryland Department of General Services “approved” that recommendation.

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Maryland Green Guidelines Certification 240

Construction Cost Estimating

AUGUST 7, 2020

The Bridge Designer 2016 is a free instructive software bundle designed for prologue to building through the design of a steel interstate bridge. To introduce the Bridge Designer , download and run the fitting arrangement document underneath. They are giving this contest as a help to training. center schools and secondary schools.

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Viewpoint Construction Technology

MARCH 20, 2018

The country implemented the Level 2 mandate in 2016, which requires BIM be used on taxpayer-funded construction projects. BIM documents all necessary information about a project in one place, and owners can access that information down the line. BIM Adoption Abroad. The United Kingdom is the gold standard for BIM.

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Construction Enquirer

JUNE 30, 2023

Adam said: “There is a well-documented housing crisis in Scotland, with communities across the country crying out for new private and affordable homes.

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Plans Agreement Housing Documentation 91

BD+C

DECEMBER 22, 2016

The 2016 version of ANSI/ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1, The document contains 121 new addenda since publication of the previous version: the 2013 standard. the Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings , was recently released.

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Green Building Law Update

OCTOBER 11, 2015

Rick Fedrizzi, USGBC CEO and founding chair, announced on October 29, 2014 that users will be able to register projects under the LEED 2009 rating system until October 31, 2016. You can read the specific changes in the Rating system document. But now, USGC is proposing an “update” (i.e., a substantive change) to LEED 2009.

Green 120

Green Renovating Modeling Liability 120

Revit OpEd

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

They've reconfigured the Properties Palette and changed how they describe and provide access to the Underlay concept. As you can see above, the Underlay concept now has its own Group Header in the Properties palette. They've renamed the Underlay parameter itself to Range: Base Level.

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Revit OpEd

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Autodesk acknowledged the issue and they've just issued an update for called Revit 2016 R2 Update 1, and there is an Update Release 11 available now for Revit 2015. In the release notes they reference color fills when closing a document that uses them. That doesn't sound like the issue I read about specifically.

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Fieldwire

APRIL 4, 2023

Since 2016, UK contractor Speller Metcalfe has used Fieldwire to manage quality assurance and snagging, as well as tracking progress and task reporting with their subcontractors. When in the field, they can use custom forms to document site conditions while doing inspections. Check out Speller Metcalfe’s video testimonial:

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BIM Innovation Schedule Site 52

BD+C

MARCH 29, 2017

The architectural firm Hord Caplan Macht (HCM) recently completed the documentation to verify that its Denver office can meet the standards necessary to be certified under Fitwel, a health and wellness program that the Center for Active Design launched in May 2016 and began rolling out to developers and the AEC community last fall.

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Construction Junkie

JULY 8, 2020

To find the results of our 5 previous competitions, click the corresponding year: 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , and 2019. 4: The ConTech Crew Previous nominations: 2016 (winner), 2017 , 2018 , 2019 Listen to it here: [link] The ConTech Crew ( @TheConTechCrew ) is also a previous champion, taking home the title in 2016.

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Green Building Law Update

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Green Building Council has announced that projects will still be able to register under the current LEED 2009 through October 31, 2016. In light of this 18 month extension, it is now necessary that developers and builders of projects planned to break ground through 2016 evaluate if that building is better registered under LEED 2009 or v4?

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Green Resource Philadelphia Materials 120

Construction Dive

MARCH 5, 2015

In the UK, for example, the government has put into place standards with the goal of all public construction utilize collaborative BIM 100%, with all project and asset information, documentation, and data being electronic by 2016-2017. So what seems to be the issues holding BIM back?

BIM 48

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BIM & Beam

AUGUST 4, 2015

Robot-AdvanceSteel Link is a technology preview that enables engineers and designers data exchange between Autodesk ® Advance Steel ® 2016 and Autodesk ® Robot ™ Structural Analysis Professional 2016, through a complete set of functionalities like import, export, or synchronize. Users can also start their work in Advance Steel.

Autodesk 40

Autodesk Modeling Fabrication Documentation 40

Autodesk Construction Cloud

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In early 2016 I got that call from NPH. That includes project management, document management, plan management, cost management, and scheduling. Regarding document management, we've been doing that for a while with PlanGrid and now Autodesk Build. It's all in one place in terms of document management.

Design 80

Design Autodesk Construction Management 80

Viewpoint Construction Technology

JULY 23, 2018

in 2016 , which allowed owners of existing buildings to assess their sustainability and achieve certifications. Document and compliance management features of these software packages make it easy to stay on top of project requirements, ensuring smoother workflows in both the office and on the jobsite.

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Certification Green United States Sustainability 180

Green Building Law Update

JULY 19, 2020

USGBC made substantive changes to the credit in 2015 and in 2016 and again in 2019 resulting in the current LEED v 4.1 Howard County, Maryland has become the first jurisdiction in the state and one of few places in the country to pass a mandatory “bird-friendly design” law for new construction of privately owned buildings.

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New York City Green Maryland Permits 289

Job Order Contracting

JANUARY 8, 2020

We founded 4BT in 2016 upon seeing a clear need to Rethink, Reshape, and Rebuild JOC. Our goal is to assure. LEAN planning, procurement, and project delivery processes were deployed in a manner that is mutually beneficial to all participants and stakeholders. Full financial transparency and audit-worthy compliance.

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Revit OpEd

JANUARY 5, 2016

In the year 2016 we find Revit is still utterly clueless about the relationship between doors and rooms. We have this quirky documentation habit of using a room's number to derive a door number, not to mention it's room name to define its location in a building.

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Revit Documentation Engineering 40

Construction Junkie

MAY 20, 2020

To find the results of our 5 previous competitions, click the corresponding year: 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , and 2019. The ConTech Crew Previous nominations: 2016 (winner), 2017 , 2018 , 2019 Listen to it here: [link] The ConTech Crew ( @TheConTechCrew ) is also a previous champion, taking home the title in 2016.

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Lien Construction Zoning Industrial 116

Construction Cost Estimating

MAY 12, 2016

The construction process was started on September 2014 and completed on March 2016. The construction professionals can use this newest camera to avail high quality remote documentation for small to large scale projects.

Construction 40

Construction Texas Documentation Design 40

Viewpoint Construction Technology

JANUARY 17, 2019

in 2016 to 16.9% As the 2018 Construction Technology Report notes: “Unfortunately, contractors are still relying heavily on spreadsheet, email and document storage solutions…”. As the world around us becomes more mobile, contractors are likewise deploying more mobile technologies in the field. in 2017 to just 15.4%

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Building Information Management

JUNE 6, 2016

2016 JOC Report – JOB ORDER CONTRACTING PERFORMANCE STUDY. 2016 JOC Report – JOB ORDER CONTRACTING PERFORMANCE STUDY.

Contract 40

Contract United States Renovating Documentation 40

Construction Law

AUGUST 1, 2022

Big Four’ auditor KMPG admitted falsifying documents and providing false and misleading information relating to inquiries being made concerning Carillion and has been fined £14.4 Million; costs of £3.95 Million have also been levied so the total amounts to some £18.35 Several KPMG auditors have been fined and banned from the profession.

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Regulation Inspections Accounting Legal 52

FDR Safety

APRIL 27, 2017

1, 2016, and the other from February 15, 2017. OSHA wants to hear from the public on draft Process Safety Management guidance documents. If the tone of “Quick Takes” is any indication, perhaps what we are witnessing is an agency re-branding itself as the “New, New OSHA.” You can compare the headlines yourself.

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OSHA Safety Injury Employment 149

Construction Marketing Ideas

MARCH 16, 2016

Project documents included a copy of the Steel Joist Institute Manual which directed that any joist girder that is nonstandard should bear the mark “SP.” The Court of Appeals agreed saying the symbol was not industry standard, was not included anywhere in the contract documents, and was not referenced in a legend to the drawings.

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ProCore News Drawings Documentation 48

Green Building Law Update

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

The project was substantially completed in 2014, late and over budget, but only days ago on October 28, 2016, a complaint was filed against the architect, general contractor, flooring contractor and insurance companies. The architect’s website still highlights the project describing it as “designed to achieve LEED Platinum.”.

Green 120

Green Claims Certification North Carolina 120

Building Information Management

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

We are excited about the potential to document the value associated with JOC vs. traditional construction deliver methods. Publication of the final report is targeted for January 2016. Milestone Schedule: The expected duration of this study will be 1 year (Jan 2015 – Jan 2016). Final JOC Report 1/25/2016.

Contract 40

Contract Arizona Estimating Education 40

Green Building Law Update

JANUARY 29, 2017

Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Veterans Affairs released new guidance on July 19, 2016, changing their 2011 positions, now widely allowing residential PACE. Residential PACE loans got a late jumpstart when the U.S. real estate since the invention of the glass window.

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Job Order Contracting

JANUARY 8, 2020

We founded 4BT in 2016 upon seeing a clear need to Rethink, Reshape, and Rebuild JOC. Software & Construction Cost Data Options for JOC Panel Questions – January 16 @3:50 pm. What is overview of your company and what differentiates your products and services from your competitors ? Basically, to assure that 1.

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FDR Safety

MAY 19, 2016

They will take effect on or around August 12, 2016. Employers will need to update those documents to include the required injury reporting and anti-retaliation language. Those documents will soon be subject to public scrutiny on the internet. At first glance, these do not appear to be new obligations.

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OSHA Employment Injury Safety 195