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ANSI B11 and risk assessment: The best kept secret in safety

FDR Safety

At the recent ASSE Professional Development Conference, there was considerable focus on risk assessment, voluntary standards and prevention through design. Risk assessment, or RA for short, will guide you in the application of feasible risk reduction controls. Risk assessment is one of the most powerful safety tools we have.

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Job Order Contract Procurement Strategy

Job Order Contracting

The acquisition starts with the needs and feasibility study and is complete once the decision has been made to implement a JOC contract. Preproposal Conference. ? Preproposal Conference. ? The JOB ORDER CONTRACT PROCUREMENT STRATEGY and approach should be tailored to JOC construction services required. Bonding Requirements.

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Drones, fibre, virtual/augmented reality and social interconnection: The future, today

Construction Marketing Ideas

In a conference hall just a short distance by water from Alcatraz, and with a commanding view of the Golden Gate Bridge, I can see the past and the future and appreciate how history ties to evolution. And I learned how some originally brilliant ideas have flopped badly in the realm of practical experience.).

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Job Order Contract Program Implementation

Job Order Contracting

The acquisition starts with the needs and feasibility study and is complete once the decision has been made to implement a JOC contract. Preproposal Conference. Discuss the plans for the preproposal conference, including scheduling, owner representation, location, etc. Preproposal Conference. Bonding Requirements.

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DebunkTheBIM: ?We looked around in the market and found nothing.

DebunkTheBIM

.” was the reoccurring theme for many of the speakers at the conference I went to a couple of days ago.followed by an inevitable.”so ”so we built the toolset from scratch” It made sense. And did not.

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The $7,000 A/E/C Corporate Website: Design

Help Everybody Everyday

But I was left with no feasible designer, no idea of what it would cost, and no website. If you remember from the last post, I had been at the SMPS Build Business conference discussing websites with my peers. Ok, where was I? I had made a lot of effort on the website. Initial Design Concepts. We argue about what looks good to no end.

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Marketing Planning Best Practices – Construction

Construction Marketing

With detailed tactical, project and functional planning, task and objective budgeting becomes more feasible, and is intuitively appealing for relating directly to planned activities. Webcasts, webinars, web conferences. Search engine optimization (SEO), search engine marketing (SEM). Email campaigns (landing pages, registration forms).

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