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Housing, Industrialized: Your Road Map to Off-Site Construction

Pro Builder

Housing, Industrialized: Your Road Map to Off-Site Construction. To assist those interested in making the journey, Pro Builder and the Pittsburgh-based Housing Innovation Alliance initiated a comprehensive “IC Road Map” with the help of a working group consisting of home builders, suppliers, researchers, and other industry experts.

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Overcoming Regulatory Barriers When Bidding in a New State

Viewpoint Construction Technology

But contractors don’t have to move at the speed of state bureaucracy when pursuing new opportunities, and they shouldn’t have to miss a bidding opportunity over government licenses and permits. So how can contractors overcome the regulatory hurdles on the road to bidding in a new jurisdiction? Regulatory Requirements Before Bidding.

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What are Preliminaries in Construction Contracts?

Lets Build

Construction companies, contractors, and owners account for preliminaries in their construction contracts because they often make up a significant percentage of the project and can be challenging to allocate across a project’s various activities. Free eBook: Guide to a digitised QHSE organisation. What are prelims?

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Environmental Regulations in Construction: What Contractors Need to Know

Levelset

Environmental laws provide the backbone for permitting and reporting requirements on construction projects, while a wide variety of state and municipal laws impose even stricter rules. NPDES permits are issued by states that have obtained EPA approval to issue permits or by EPA Regions in states without such approval.

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What Is Pavement Marking | Types of Pavement Markings & Their Meanings

CivilJungle

Pavement markings, along with road signs and signals, are part of the intelligence system for road users. These are often used to mean that the road has no parking pavement markings. Vehicles are permitted to transit. The solid white line forces drivers to stay in their lane and defines the road’s shoulder.

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Safety: What to do when employees know better but don’t do better

FDR Safety

This article will take a comprehensive look at addressing this problem along with the culture of safety, and examines the philosophy, accountability and structure needed to develop a successful safety program. Accountability for actions. What would happen if there were no highway patrolmen to monitor traffic on the roads?

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Federal Infrastructure Bill Paves the Way Toward More Transportation Infrastructure Public-Private Partnerships

Constructlaw

A key provision of the IIJA codifies the One Federal Decision process, establishing a two-year time limit for completing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review and permitting processes for major infrastructure projects. [4] A recent Government Accountability Office study found that the average time to complete a NEPA review is 4.5