Fri.Jun 08, 2018

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Rebar in Revit: Power up your productivity with BIM Designers

BIM & Beam

Advance BIM Designers is a BIM solution for improving structural project management. It helps users to create, design, document, track and control structural members of a BIM project while also working in multiple BIM environments. GRAITEC Advance BIM Designers – Concrete Series is an innovative series of applications for rebar detailing and modeling using engineering BIM data.

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The 2018 Best Construction Blog: Let’s Fix Construction

Construction Marketing Ideas

The 2018 Best Construction Blog is Let’s Fix Construction. This interdisciplinary blog ranked fourth in the popular vote, but one of the three judges gave it first place status, and another ranked it second, and the combination of relative popular vote multiplied by judge’s rankings, pushed the blog to the top in the final evaluation. […].

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Report: 90% of contractors face labor challenges

Construction Dive

The lack of skilled workers is creating uncertainty in an otherwise healthy construction industry.

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Data is driving design for education

BD+C

We are surrounded by data. The sheer volume of data available to educational institutions today is unprecedented. In many cases data that isn’t already accessible, can be either acquired or generated. This abundance of big data, while very helpful, does not necessarily provide the answers K-12 or higher education institutions are looking for nor does it directly translate into solutions for their design problems.

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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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California bullet train has created 2K construction jobs

Construction Dive

As work on the $77 billion line proceeds, the authority expects to generate thousands more positions.

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Florida DOT fighting to keep FIU bridge collapse records under wraps

Construction Dive

A judge has given the agency two weeks to decide whether it will defend itself in court for refusing to hand over to the Miami Herald internal documents related to the structural failure.

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Can You Be Both Lazy and Successful Contractor?

Contractor Bookkeeping

Today's Guest Article Is From Tom Jager, professional blogger. -. American science writer Robert Heinlein once said: “Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.” Do you agree? That’s okay if you don’t because laziness is a quality that is not commonly associated with success. However, working as little as possible is a strategy that many people embraced and ultimately reached new heights.

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Navistar Posts 16% More Revenue

Construction Equipment

Navistar said Q2 revenues were $2.4 billion, up 16 percent from the same period a year ago. The company cited higher volumes in Class 6-8 trucks and buses (Core) in the United States and Canada as drivers for the growth.

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High-speed rail service now connects Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach

BD+C

Last month, All Aboard Brightline, Florida’s hospitality focused high-speed intercity passenger rail service, extended its service to MiamiCentral, a new 200,000-sf terminal on 11 acres in downtown Miami. MiamiCentral is part of the only privately owned, operated, and maintained intermodal development in the U.S. Brightline’s rail system now includes nonstop service from Miami to a 27,500-sf station on 4.8 acres of land in downtown Fort Lauderdale, and a 60,000-sf station in downtown West Palm B

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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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Caterpillar Marks Mining Truck Milestone

Construction Equipment

Caterpillar celebrated the manufacture of its 1000th 797 Mining Truck at its plant in Decatur, Ill. The 797 is the company’s largest truck, with a payload of 400 tons. According to Cat, it’s the largest mechanical-drive mining truck in the world.

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FTA issues decision for $4.7B California BART extension project

Construction Dive

Officials can now begin the engineering phase and apply for federal funding for the six-mile line expansion into downtown San Jose and Santa Clara.

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Asian Markets Spur Exports Surge from Minnesota

Business Facilities

More than $7 billion in goods were shipped from Minnesota to Asia in 2017, with shipments to Japan notching a 30 percent increase over the previous year. - Read: Asian Markets Spur Exports Surge from Minnesota at BusinessFacilities.com.

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New technology in earthquake engineering to resist collapsing of the structures

Construction Cost Estimating

It is the big challenge for the structural engineers to develop earthquake resistance structures. An Earthquake resistant structure should have the capacity to resist abrupt ground shaking to reduce the damages to the structure. Though the reinforced Concrete contains sound earthquake resistance capacity of buildings but owing to the substandard mix design of concrete and improper curing the reinforced concrete lost it’s desired compressive strength and it leads to collapsing of structure during

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The Ultimate Procurement Software Buyer’s Guide

Choosing the right procurement software is a crucial step in ensuring third-party risk management, process governance, and bidding efficiency. With so many procurement solutions to choose from, it can be overwhelming without a frame of reference and a solid starting point. This free buyer’s guide will cover: Benefits of Procurement Software –– Why do you need it?

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Watts Opens New Learning Center in North Carolina

Contractor Magazine

The 3,000-sq.-ft.

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Construction Editorial Awards Winners Announced

Construction Marketing

The Construction Media Alliance – a network of construction industry journalists, public relations professionals, marketers, publishers and social media contributors – announced the winners of its second annual editorial and marketing awards via a Facebook Live webcast on June 5 th , 2018. The winners were chosen by a panel of industry peers based on criteria set forth by the group’s volunteer-led awards committee. 2018 Construction Media Alliance Editorial Award Winners: Best Column: “Tech Talk