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Demystifying fire-retardant treated wood specifications

Construction Specifier

This article contains a strong, generic model specification in standard CSI format for FRTW that will help specifiers: • Identify the critical code requirements for FRTW; and. • The following sections correspond to those used in the model FRTW specification. Specifying wood treatment qualified under MIL-L-19140E and listed by the U.S.

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Business Report: Chicago Will Host Digital Manufacturing And Design Innovation Institute

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

President Obama has awarded Chicago a $70 million grant from the Department of Defense to build a $320-million Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute. The Digital Lab will apply computing technologies to address the manufacturing challenges faced by the Department of Defense.

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

Building Information Management

Building information modeling (BIM) is beginning to fundamentally change the building industry in a very positive way. 10:00 – 11:30 AM Construction – Fabrication Integration. Dee Cramer is an industry leader in 3D CAD and Building Information Modeling. Tuesday and Wednesday: Conference Educational Sessions.

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5 Types of Subcontractor Software Transforming the Trades 

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Subcontractors are always on the defensive when it comes to rework, which they must mitigate and reduce as much as possible. However, project management tools diverge in that they focus on project progress, rather than progress along a sub process, like fabrication or installation. 5: Model-Centric Tools.

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

Building Information Management

Building information modeling (BIM) is beginning to fundamentally change the building industry in a very positive way. 10:00 – 11:30 AM Construction – Fabrication Integration. Dee Cramer is an industry leader in 3D CAD and Building Information Modeling. Tuesday and Wednesday: Conference Educational Sessions.

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Wisconsin: Where Collaboration Drives Industry Advancement

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

The panel also announced it would begin a comprehensive study of Wisconsin’s water cluster to learn from its achievements and model it for future cluster building, both in the U.S. state in two industries on which aerospace depends – fabricated metal product manufacturing, and electrical equipment, appliance and component manufacturing.

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities Rankings Report

Business Facilities

The state also fully implemented its Tennessee Educator Acceleration Model (TEAM) educator evaluation system. More than 100 candidates have enrolled in the program, which has been recognized in Alabama, nationally and globally as a model in the arena of workforce development. Shelton is using the largest portion of the funds ($1.2

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