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LEAN beats BENCHMARKING

Job Order Contracting

LEAN beats benchmarking every time. A benchmark is, “A standard by which a metric can be measured or judged.” With respect to efficient life-cycle management of the built environment, and facilities management in general, many depend upon benchmarking as valued tool. . There are several issues I have with benchmarking… Is the industry standard (presuming you have selected the right group for comparison) really something that should play a role in your strategy?

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10 Ways To Get the Most Out of Your Job Order Contract

Job Order Contracting

10 Ways To Get the Most Out of Your Job Order Contract. Understand your strategy and goals. Do you want only to speed renovation and repair projects, or improve them? Be sure you have a team in place to manage and support your JOC Program. Don’t expect you can depend heavily upon a JOC consultant or otherwise “outsource” the process.

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Provisions of hooks in TMT bar for RCC

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Leading the Way in Construction EHS Software

The Verdantix Green Quadrant: EHS Software 2023 is an independent third-party analysis of 23 EHS software vendors (including Intelex) that provides an in-depth look at the technical capabilities, application breadth, innovation focus, and momentum of key environmental, health, and safety management software market players. The guide is essential reading for EHS software benchmarking, especially for understanding unique vendor strengths and capabilities.

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How To Track Relationships When You Don’t Have A CRM

Help Everybody Everyday

In my last post, I described how to choose the best CRM for your firm. But what if a CRM just isn’t in the cards for you or your firm at the moment? Don’t fret. There’s actually a lot you can do without a CRM. But before we get into that, I want to share with you one of my dirty little secrets. The Shocking Secret Even My Mother Doesn’t Know.

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Multifamily visionaries: The Beach Company’s family ties

BD+C

Most family businesses don’t survive their second generation of leadership. The Beach Company, Charleston, S. C., is proof that ancestral enterprises can prosper. . Led by President and CEO John C. L. Darby, grandson of founder John Charles “J. C.” Long, the 72-year-old firm has built an impressive legacy as a real estate broker, developer, and property manager throughout South Carolina.

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HEARING LOSS PREVENTION

Safety Services Company

Occupational hearing loss affects millions of workers across the country. This type of injury can severely limit an individual’s ability to function normally, and reduces their quality of life. Businesses can expect to see a negative impact on productivity and profit as well as an increase in lost-time and workers’ compensation claims, leading to numerous additional hidden costs.

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How to minimize efflorescence in fresh concrete masonry walls

Construction Cost Estimating

There are different types of methods which are very useful to lessen the efflorescence in new construction of masonry walls. Efflorescence reduction processes should be initiated on a regular basis to obtain the perfect result. To use these processes in an efficient manner, sufficient knowledge and understanding is needed. Given below, the detail information on different types of processes which are most effective to reduce probable efflorescence on bricks.

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Fiber-Reinforced Concrete Getting First Real-Life Test in Vancouver

ENR Construction

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Optimize Operational Processes With an Industry-Specific ERP

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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The Systole and Diastole in Recycling

Green Building Law Update

Recycling is not new. 11,000 years before Christ the people in the Nile valley recognized the intrinsic value of reusing waste. But maybe not since that dawn of civilization has recycling undergone the wide fluctuation, good and bad, that we are seeing right now. The bad news is that on July 18, China notified the World Trade Organization in two filings it would be imposing a ban on imports of certain kinds of solid waste.