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Sustainability guidelines for ready mix plant certification

GCP Applied Technologies

Sustainability guidelines for ready mix plant certification. The webpage also provides downloads—helpful worksheets and a "Guidelines" PDF 1 —for plants to make strides toward sustainability. The webpage also provides downloads—helpful worksheets and a "Guidelines" PDF 1 —for plants to make strides toward sustainability.

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LEAN Facilities Management Processes

Job Order Contracting

LEAN collaborative construction delivery, a common data environment, and supporting cloud-based technology profoundly change: the teams work, and relationships between clients, vendors, and stakeholders, how people and organizations are measured and compensated, the tools that are used, our work lives. The latter has been neglected.

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Design considerations for building movements caused by volume change

Construction Specifier

Creep is defined as “time-dependent deformation due to sustained load.” Shrinkage-compensating concrete, or adjusted water-cement ratios and aggregate size can be used to limit the impact of shrinkage on structural movements. Shrinkage and creep are closely related and difficult to predict.

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: Affordable Eco.

Natural Building

Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. Kelly has lived in an earthbag/papercrete home that he built and consults about sustainable building design.

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With Inflation, How Can We Help Construction Costs Stay Down?

Fieldwire

Building Information Modeling Building information modeling (BIM) can be your saving grace. The technology’s three-dimensional building models are full of valuable information about the structure’s geometry, allowing you to identify the smallest mistakes. BIM can help you reduce that number to zero for all your projects.

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Government Ownership of Rain is Antithetical to Increased Potable Water

Green Building Law Update

And the government should not take the rain falling on private property without just compensation. Utah’s decriminalizing precipitation collection may be a model for the nation. Collecting rain and using it for a desired purpose on one’s own property should no longer violate laws.

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Government Ownership of Rain is Antithetical to Increased Potable Water

Green Building Law Update

And the government should not take the rain falling on private property without just compensation. Utah’s decriminalizing precipitation collection may be a model for the nation. Collecting rain and using it for a desired purpose on one’s own property should no longer violate laws.