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AISC Group Recommends Spec Changes After Salesforce Transit Center Girder Fractures

ENR Construction

The American Institute of Steel Construction task group reviewed proposals made by California's Metropolitan Transportation Commission, in the aftermath of the 2018 discovery of brittle fractures in plate girders at the Salesforce Transit Center.

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Panel's Review of Transit Center's Fractured Girders Draws Heated Reactions

ENR Construction

The public authority that owns and runs the Salesforce Transit Center in San Francisco forcefully disagrees with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission's independent expert panel that reviewed the 2018 brittle fractures in twin built-up plate girders.

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KPMG Report: The value of Information Management in construction for VolkerWessels

Lets Build

A report commissioned by the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) and prepared by KPMG focused on the value of Information Management within construction and infrastructure sectors. Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM). Environment Agency. Government Property Agency (GPA). Mott MacDonald.

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Maryland Resets it Trajectory with Greenhouse Gas Reduction Law

Green Building Law Update

Securities and Exchange Commission issued a proposed new rule to mandate Tier 1, 2, and 3 GHG emissions disclosures by public companies and the many other businesses in their supply chains. something the legislative branch authorized, but the executive branch balked at) before January 1, 2023 and then adopt subsequent triennial versions.

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Nurdles are the Environmental Calamity of 2019

Green Building Law Update

Activists tell us that due to spills and poor handling, annually billions of nurdles pellets are swept into waterways during production and transport and increasingly washing up on beaches. Environmental and social concerns dominated shareholder submissions in 2018 and such can be expected to be the instance again this year.

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What Are Plastic Roads | How to Make Plastic Roads | Who Invented Plastic Roads | First Man Made Plastic Road | Advantages & Disadvantages of Plastic Roads

CivilJungle

Chennai municipality adapted this technology in a big way by commissioning 1000 km of Plastic roads in the year 2004. First Man Made Plastic Road: Zwolle in Overijssel Province, the eastern part of Netherlands, the world’s first 30-meter plastic road was constructed and opened on September 2018. Short Note. Who Invented Plastic Roads.

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Maryland Bans Polystyrene and Enacts 31 other New Environmental Laws

Green Building Law Update

The Transportation and Climate Initiative of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States is a regional collaboration that seeks to improve transportation, develop the clean energy economy, and reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector. In Maryland, over 640,000 public school students receive transportation services.

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