Construction Equipment

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

John Deere has announced the Deere 950K PAT crawler dozer, shown during ConExp 2017 earlier this year, is now available at Deere dealers across North American. “As PAT (Power-Angle-Tilt )blades have become increasingly popular on mid-size dozers such as the 850K, customers have inquired about adding the feature to a larger model. The 950K PAT answers their calls and gives customers the power to move large amounts of dirt with the versatility to do finish work,” said Nathan Horstman, Deere's craw

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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

A city sustainability manager who inspires at-risk youth to connect with nature through action sports like surfing and snowboarding. A structural engineer who protects and serves foster children as a court-appointed advocate. A K-12 school design manager who has introduced more than 6,000 fifth-grade students to the architecture profession. .

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Construction Equipment

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Two Tishman Construction workers fell35 feet out of a boomlift bucket around 2 p.m.Thursday at the One Manhattan West construction site, resulting in the death of a 45-year old employee of E-J Electronic Installation of Long Island City, Queens. The other worker was taken to Bellevue Hospital in serious but stable condition.

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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Then describing how his FIRM’S design of the 111-room Strand & Pier Hotel, in the heart of Hermosa Beach, Calif., will capture the essence of that famous surfing town, Don Harrier, AIA, LEED AP, Principal with HKS, waxes nostalgic. The 12x40-foot guestroom dimensions reflect “longboard proportions,” he says. Finely detailed wood rails, trellises, and partitions “evoke the handcrafted nature of shaping surfboards.

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Construction Equipment

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The bridge deck swayed, cracks circled the support columns and - in 20 seconds - the earthquake ended and the bridge settled to a stop. Damaged but still standing, the 100-ton 70 foot long bridge was sitting on three large shake tables in the University of Nevada, Reno Earthquake Engineering Laboratory, the first large-scale bridge model to test five principles and techniques of accelerated bridge construction combined in one bridge model.

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Construction Equipment

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Two Tishman Construction workers fell 35 feet out of a boomlift bucket around 2 p.m. on September 21 at the One Manhattan West construction site, resulting in the death of a 45-year-old employee of E-J Electronic Installation of Long Island City, Queens. The other worker was taken to Bellevue Hospital in serious but stable condition.

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Construction Marketing Ideas

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Can you achieve sustainable, effective and profitable construction marketing with a total annual budget of $1,000 or less? I think the answer is “yes”, though you’ll have to do some serious learning and improvising — and you’ll need a solid business/reputational base to pull this off. The key to the strategy is to understand how […].

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Contractor Bookkeeping

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

QuickBooks has over a hundred reports that can be viewed on a regular basis. You could spend all of your time seeing a report in QuickBooks and trying to find the way to populate numbers in the report. Many reports are designed for specific things. Take for example the view of the Home Page. Just because the feature is on the Home Page in QuickBooks does not mean it is useful for every contractor.

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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

In a deal announced this morning , Houston-based healthcare and S+T design specialist FKP has merged with design giant CannonDesign (#8 on BD+C ’s Giants 300 Top 100 Architecture/Engineering Firms ranking ). The merger forms a 19-office, 960-employee practice that produced more than $220 million in combined design revenue in 2016. .

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As the use of Enterprise Resource Planning systems in the construction industry is critical to optimizing operations, it's critical that decision makers conduct a thorough software evaluation to find the one that best aligns to their needs.

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Business Facilities

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Plascore, Inc. is expanding its operations in the City of Zeeland, MI. The manufacturer of honeycomb cores for aerospace, marine, mass transportation and construction industries will invest $6 million and create 10-15 jobs over the next two years. Plascore currently has four facilities in the Zeeland Industrial Park with over 300 full time employees.

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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Cambridge Properties is primarily a retail developer. But its proposed University City entertainment district in Charlotte, N.C., is unlikely to include soft-goods retailers as tenants. “We’re looking to ‘Amazon proof’ the district,” explains Jay Priester, Jr., Cambridge’s Vice President of Leasing and Development. In other words, Cambridge is looking for tenants that don’t compete with the online monolith.

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Building Information Management

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

OpenJOC TM LEAN JOB ORDER CONTRACTING SOLUTIONS. The OpenJOC approach drives maximum productivity by leveraging proven LEAN construction delivery processes. 1. Process – A written Job Order Contract Operations Manual / JOC Execution Guide plays a central role by fully documenting roles, responsibilities, business practices, means, methods, and outcomes. 2.

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Construction Cost Estimating

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

To find out the exact quantities of concrete for a construction project is very crucial. Given below, some useful tips for computing the quantities of concrete mix for any construction project. How to work out the amount of concrete necessary for Slabs(along with odd shapes) Rule of thumb: Include 1/4" to the density of your slab for your slab concrete budget.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

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ENR Construction

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

A young Boston-area startup, ManufactOn, has entered into a non-exclusive partnership with Autodesk, which plans to integrate ManufactOn’s cloud and mobile software for optimizing materials and prefabrication supply chain management with Autodesk’s BIM 360 construction management platform. The partnership was announced on Sept. 18.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

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ENR Construction

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Nonresidential building sector advances while public works and power plants pull back.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

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ENR Construction

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

State officials plan to use public-private partnership to carry out plan.

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Business Facilities

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

They look like two soft ice cream cones that somebody accidentally dropped on the grass on their way from the refreshment stand to the park. But these unique natural outcrops form the centerpiece of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah. According to a recent report in The Washington Post , U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has included Grand Staircase-Escalante on his list of 10 national monuments that he says need to have their boundaries and/or use adjusted.

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ENR Construction

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Guajatca dam is said to be in danger of collapse.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Guajatca dam said to be in danger of collapse.

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ENR Construction

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

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