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5 steps construction managers can take to help implement new tech to their crew

Fieldwire

Greater efficiency and visibility mean your crew will experience fewer accident-related setbacks. About 59.9% of construction fatalities happen because of four main causes — electrocution, falling from great heights, being struck by objects and getting caught between things.

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The Home Building Technology Revolution, Part III: The Missing Link

Pro Builder

Now consider the software side, which deals with the home building process —anything from back-office accounting, purchase orders (POs) and variance purchase orders (VPOs), options and selections management, sales management, scheduling, warranty management, and BIM (building information modeling), etc. . Works great until it doesn’t!

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Patented Precast Shaves Costs on Korean Highway | ENR.

ENR Construction

Freyssinet’s $30-million subcontract entails building the tunnel in an open trench. Unevenly backfilling such tunnels can introduce unsymmetrical loads on the three-pin arches, which could lead to an accident like the one that felled a TechSpan tunnel in Gerards Cross, England, six years ago (ENR 7/11/05 p. Slideshows.

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