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School construction: Enhancing security through design

The Korte Company

Our success as a security-focused school construction company is underscored by our experience delivering 500 projects for our country’s Department of Defense. Exterior elements of secure school construction. Architects must design for the security of the school without making it look like a prison. Minimal, but not barren.

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4 Guidelines for Preventive Roof Maintenance

Flynn

One of the biggest costs of a short-sighted approach to roof maintenance is premature roof replacement, which shrinks the life cycle of a roof system, and magnifies the cost of every leak repair and collateral damage within that cycle. A year-by-year proactive maintenance plan can then be created.

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Joint public-private sector effort needed to mitigate the construction sector’s embodied carbon problem

BD+C

A report by the WBCSD and global sustainable development consultancy Arup estimates that less than 1% of building projects currently calculate and report their full carbon footprint. Every phase of the construction project life cycle presents contractors with opportunities help lower embodied carbon.

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Top 10 ERP Solutions for Construction Firms

Construction Marketing

It’s a secure, SaaS solution with reporting, dashboards and data analytics available on phones, tablets and PCs—anywhere at any time. Reflex’s Construction Management software provides project and asset-based life-cycle management in one fully integrated software package. Microsoft Dynamics SL. Reflex ERP. Ready to grow?

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LEAN JOC Construction Improves Facilities Management Outcomes

Job Order Contracting

All participants and stakeholders collaborating throughout the project life-cycle. Tightly coupling learning with action promoting continuous improvement throughout the life of the JOC Program. Tightly coupling learning with action promoting continuous improvement throughout the life of the JOC Program.

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Life Science Building Design & Construction: 5 Considerations for Success

Stok

As the International Institute for Sustainable Laboratories (I2SL) puts it, “The challenge for architects, engineers, and other building professionals is to design and construct the next generation of laboratories to address both sustainable construction practices and contemporary standards of comfort, security, and safety.”.

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Life Science Building Design & Construction: 5 Considerations for Success

Stok

As the International Institute for Sustainable Laboratories (I2SL) puts it, “The challenge for architects, engineers, and other building professionals is to design and construct the next generation of laboratories to address both sustainable construction practices and contemporary standards of comfort, security, and safety.”.

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