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Plant & Demolition man strikes out on his own with Komatsu PC290-8

Digger Blog

The business was later passed onto Austin’s father, who himself was a mechanic with a background of engineering and fabricating. This experience was further enhanced when his father decided to go it alone and set up in business as a diesel fitter specialising in plant, transport and steel fabrication.

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The experts have spoken: We can and should be optimistic despite COVID-19

Lets Build

David Philp , Global BIM/IM Consultancy Director at Aecom and Head of B.I.M It’s forcing us to strive for more innovation and much more rapid solutions,” highlighted David Philp, Global BIM/IM Consultancy Director at Aecom and Head of B.I.M at UK BIM Task Force. Chris Hallam , Partner at CMS UK. at UK BIM Task Force.

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: Affordable Eco.

Natural Building

Kelly has lived in an earthbag/papercrete home that he built and consults about sustainable building design. Using pre-fabricated elements or existing structures. Dr Pickerill was very lucky to be able to travel the world and see how folks approached the idea's on sustainable housing. View my complete profile. HyperAdobe.

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Behind the Build: Interview with Rob Huffman, Director of Kawneer Collaborative at Kawneer

Autodesk Construction Cloud

We also deliver our products in a number of ways from stick to fabricated to unitized, depending on the project needs. After the completion of that, I wanted to step back from traveling so much. architects, contractors, sub-contractors, consultants and engineering firms) via Autodesk BIM360.

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From an abattoir to a giant knitting machine, the fascinating new photography book that looks for beauty in unexpected places

Construction Test

This image was shot as part of a project in collaboration with human science strategic consultants ReD Associates . The 11-storey-high storage warehouse in Åhus contains up to 13 million bottles at a time.

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Home Stretch

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

The expanded Canal will permit super-sized Post-Panamax container vessels to travel directly to the East and Gulf Coasts of the U.S. The wider canal will let East Coast ports take an additional 10 percent of this traffic from the West Coast, according to a report by Boston Consulting Group and C.H. for the first time.

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Critical Issues and BIM – NIBS buildingSMART alliance conference – January 7-11, 2013

Building Information Management

The buildingSMART alliance TM Conference will help you understand how BIM can better integrate the design, construction, fabrication and operation processes, and provide you with the latest metrics available to assess industry progress. 10:00 – 11:30 AM Construction – Fabrication Integration.

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