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Five Basic Construction Accounting Tasks To Complete Every Month

Contractor Bookkeeping

Other costs including permits, plans, bills from suppliers, and purchases on your personal credit cards. These tasks form the solid foundation of your small business. As a small business owner, you have more important things to do than to keep your own books.

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Deep Winter Greenhouses in Minnesota

Natural Building

Lumber, glass, big rocks, dirt, and sunshine is all you need for a Deep Winter Greenhouse (DWG), first described in a book by Carol Ford and Chuck Waibel in 2009 titled The Northlands Winter Greenhouse Manual. They raised the foundation 12 inches, but now wish it would have been more.

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The Strawtegi CO2ttage in Salt Lake City

Natural Building

The Strawtegi CO2ttage broke ground in October, 2021, as the first permitted structure in the U.S. She studied Chris Magwood’s book on building straw panels. Locally mined, natural perlite is used to insulate the foundation and French drains are designed to move water away from the structure as quickly as possible during heavy storms.

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Earthbag Tiny Home Building

Natural Building

Here is an article by Morgan Caraway recently published in www.motherearthnews.com My wife, Mary Jane, and I built our first earthbag home in 2009, after being inspired by the Mother Earth News book Earthbag Building. Your first major decision for an earthbag project is the type of foundation.

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All About Pony Wall | What Is a Pony Wall | Uses of Pony Wall | Pros and Cons of Pony Wall

CivilJungle

The pony wall applies as a bookshelf in two section parts, and the earliest choice is to separate the upper wall plain into the wall shelf through easy parting the aperture out and stock your books and the next bracket to the upper to the pony kind wall. It provides a rigid base to join a siding and permits more wall places to hang photos.

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Download Civil Engineering Software Free

Construction Cost Estimating

These are the geotechnical tasks: Slope stability analysis, Foundations design, Retaining wall design, Sheet pile wall, Soil Settlement, Underground structures etc. ELPLA - It analyzes and plan slab foundations and to decide contact force, settlements, instant activities and shear forces of slab foundations by the method of limited elements.

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What is preconstruction and why it’s important

Lets Build

Preconstruction lays the foundation for the entire project—it’s the process that ensures a high-quality build and offers the best chances of finishing on time, on spec, and on budget. Book your personalised demo here. Preconstruction planning: Keeps everyone aligned.

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