Green Building Law Update

APRIL 29, 2018

Maybe not since Plato wrote about the value of reusing waste in the fourth century BC has recycling undergone the wide fluctuation, good and bad, that we are seeing right now. Today, the world has been forced to rethink its approach to waste. China is driving the change in recycling. Most recently, China imposed a 25% tariff on U.S. scrap aluminum. The import has resulted in a more than 15% drop in the price of mixed aluminum scrap this past month to 60 cents per pound, an amount that exceeds th

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Construction Dive

APRIL 29, 2018

PennaGroup claims 30 employees felt ill after exposure to benzene and other contaminants and that the Army Corps of Engineers did not pay it for the cleanup.

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Claims Contractors Engineering 58

Construction Marketing Ideas

APRIL 29, 2018

I’ve been following the rapid Artificial Intelligence (AI) or machine learning progress, and an increasing number of stories describing how the rapidly evolving technology has been implemented for marketing applications. Most of the stories so far relate to a specific subset of the marketing universe: Businesses (usually larger in size) with loads of consumer data, […].

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Construction Innovation 54

Construction Dive

APRIL 29, 2018

The defects are not expected to create a safety problem but could reduce the lifespan of the panels.

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DC Concrete Safety Contractors 51

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ENR Construction

APRIL 29, 2018

The early bird registration for ENR's regional Best Project awards ends May 1

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Construction Cost Estimating

APRIL 29, 2018

Floating Column or Hanging Columns: The floating column belongs to a vertical member that is laid on a beam and it doesn’t deliver the load directly to the foundation. The floating column operates as a point load on the beam and this beam transmits the load to the columns situated under it. The column may set out on the first or second or any other midmost floor as resting on a beam.

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Foundation Commercial Residential Design 40

Construction Dive

APRIL 29, 2018

The 10-year project will employ 8,000 construction workers at the peak of activity.

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Louisiana Employment Construction 48