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Gearing Up for CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2020

Construction Business Owner

Gearing Up for CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2020. Tue, 02/11/2020 - 11:49. CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2020 is North America’s largest construction trade show for the asphalt, aggregates, concrete, earthmoving, lifting, mining, utilities and related industries—set for March 10-14 in Las Vegas, USA. Greg Ragsdale.

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What’s Your Home’s Flood Risk Score?

Pro Builder

Wed, 08/26/2020 - 10:40. A nonprofit research and technology group, First Street Foundation launched an interactive website offering flood risk data on more than 142 million homes and properties across the country in June. What’s Your Home’s Flood Risk Score? However, starting this week every U.S.

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The Power of Augmented Reality (AR) in Construction

Autodesk Construction Cloud

AR technology can be used in project presentations, for progress capture, for enhanced collaboration, for better safety, and when construction training is needed. Consider the following use cases: Project presentation. These labels can then bring up text or even 3D models to communicate safety or hazard information.

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How the Construction Industry Is Rethinking Workforce Development

Pro Builder

When Branka Minic became CEO of the Building Talent Foundation (BTF), an Orlando, Fla.-based Longer-term, Riddle says he and his business partner also have gotten more involved with their local HBA to present to trade-school students about the industry’s virtues. John Caulfield, Senior Contributing Editor.

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Dispute Boards: An Approach to the Efficient Resolution of Disputes in the Construction Sector

Constructlaw

As published in Dispute Resolution Magazine, volume 26, issue 3, September 2020. Parties are often less willing to take extreme positions before a dispute board because the board’s members, with their relevant backgrounds and familiarity with the project, can be expected to parse through many of the technical issues presented by the parties.

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The Palletable Cobin

Natural Building

In September of 2020 an event was organized called “What’s your Medicine?” The residents present were asked if they had any suggestions on how they could be built, and the typical ways of building tiny houses were suggested: wood framing, insulating with fiberglass, and covering in drywall. But not everyone saw the project this way.

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Builders, Stop the Waste!

Pro Builder

You didn’t show the best slide in the entire presentation, the one about McDonald’s ketchup. During the very first LeanBuilding Blitz we ran 13 years ago in Houston, a foundation contractor offered a million-dollar piece of advice: “The guys need to dig the trenches for post-tension slabs like brownies, not muffins!”