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Some of the Oldest Buildings in the U.S.

Natural Building

Here is a collection of some of the oldest buildings in the United States. It is Washington’s last Pre-Revolutionary colonial building on its original foundation. A defensive fort that can be traced to 1672, Castillo De San Marcos was built under the direction of Florida’s Spanish governor to protect the city of St.

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#96:  Payment Bond Sureties and "Pay-if-Paid" Subcontracts

NH Construction Law

It is often said that a payment bond surety may assert all of the contractual defenses to payment enjoyed by its principal. United States ex rel. 2d 404 (1990), construing Florida law, held that general contractor’s “pay-if-paid” defense was not available to a surety. Foundation Constructors, Inc. ,

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We ARE the Government

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The House of Representatives is not the government of the United States. Senate is not the government of the United States. The president is not the government of the United States. The American people are , and always have been, the government of the United States. We are the government.

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Construction Cost Estimating, Location Factoring, and National Average Cost Data

Job Order Contracting

The RSMeans city cost index (CCI) and the Department of Defense area cost factor (ACF) index are two primary examples of location factor publications. For example, Estes (2016) found that for a slab-on-grade foundation assembly with 0.1 Martinez, A., Additionally, assembly costs for 0.1 Built Environ. doi: 10.3389/fbuil.2023.1111563

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Great Leap Forward

Business Facilities

More recently, the PRC has begun to lay the foundation for a Chinese aerospace industry. The United States—with the best university system in the world supplying the brainpower for the most-advanced labs—has serenely assumed that its status as the global technology leader would not be challenged in our lifetimes.

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4BT OpenCost(TM) Local Market Granular Cost Data an RSmeans Alternative?

Job Order Contracting

The RSMeans city cost index (CCI) and the Department of Defense area cost factor (ACF) index are two primary examples of location factor publications. For example, Estes (2016) found that for a slab-on-grade foundation assembly with 0.1 Martinez, A., Additionally, assembly costs for 0.1 Built Environ. doi: 10.3389/fbuil.2023.1111563

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State Focus: Minnesota’s Formula For Success

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WFSI, a Sauk Rapids company that does customized welding projects for the energy and defense industries, is adding 32 new jobs in that central Minnesota community. Greater MSP boasts a significant health and life sciences community with over 600 companies and the 2nd highest concentration of life science workers in the United States.