Fri.May 26, 2017

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How the Trump Administration May Affect Paid Parental Leave

Construction Business Owner

During his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Trump announced, “My administration wants to work with members in both parties to make childcare accessible and affordable, [and] to help ensure new parents have paid family leave.” It signals a substantial shift in paid leave in the United States. During the presidential campaign, Trump made maternity leave a signature issue.

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How to Implement Construction Software in Your Business

Lets Build

In 2004 Loughborough University conducted a study entitled Technology Implementation Strategies for Construction Organisations. The conclusion was, effectively, that it was very difficult! But much has changed in the intervening 13 years. However, the need for a change within construction remains acute. That’s why it’s critical to start endorsing the use of construction software as a step forward towards the modernisation of the construction industry.

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Vista 6.14 Accounting Enhancements

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Vista Accounting is a proven, construction-specific software suite that meets the financial needs and requirements of contractors.

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Stop Using Construction Cost Indexes, Location Indexes, Location Factors

Job Order Contracting

Whether you are involved in Job Order Contracting or engaging in general construction cost estimating its time to Stop Using Construction Cost Indexes, Location Indexes, Location Factors. The use of construction cost indexes, location indexes, or location factors is likely costing your organization money and creating major problems for everyone involved; real property owners, contractors, subs, architects, engineers, and oversight groups.

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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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Vista 6.14 Operations Enhancements

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Viewpoint offers tools that manage your construction operations, your service operations, and material sales.

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Vista 6.14 Platform Enhancements

Viewpoint Construction Technology

The Vista platform is the technology that underpins the various modules that make up Vista.

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Architecture isn’t Bjarke Ingels Group’s only growth path

BD+C

Sometime late this year, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) expects to move its headquarters into 52,000 sf of space in Brooklyn, N.Y.’s Dumbo neighborhood, which has been dubbed that borough’s Tech Triangle. BIG’s new location, on the 9 th floor of 45 Main Street, will be more than double the 22,000 sf that the firm currently leases in lower Manhattan, where 200-plus employees work in warren-like proximity.

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Lower costs with integrated construction software

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Payroll, for example, impacts your bottom line.

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Innovations in addressing homelessness

BD+C

Sasaki principal Brie Hensold and planner Gretchen Keillor recently attended an Innovation Lab hosted by the National Recreation and Park Association in Los Angeles, CA.

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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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Run for his Money: Lawn Company Gives 11-Year-Old who Wanted a Job his own Lawn Mower

Green Industry Professionals

The boy approached a stranger for a summer lawn mowing job and received tools to start his own lawn business.

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Southern Cities Continue To Dominate U.S. Growth

Business Facilities

Ten of the 15 fastest-growing large cities in the U.S. were located across the South in 2016, with four of the top five in Texas, according to new population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. . Business Facilities - Area Economic Development, Site Selection & Workforce Solutions. Business Facilities - Area Economic Development, Site Selection & Workforce Solutions - The Source For Corporate Site Selectors.

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TurfMutt Named an Official Education Partner of the U.S. Green Building Council

Green Industry Professionals

Science-based online lessons help teachers and excite students about caring for green spaces and the family yard.

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Switch Investing $2.5B In Atlanta Data Center

Business Facilities

The global technology company will create 65 jobs at the metro Atlanta data center. Business Facilities - Area Economic Development, Site Selection & Workforce Solutions. Business Facilities - Area Economic Development, Site Selection & Workforce Solutions - The Source For Corporate Site Selectors. Switch Investing $2.5B In Atlanta Data Center.

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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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Hard Hats with Heart

PC Construction

Nearly 30 members of PC Construction’s Portland, Maine team – including family and friends – laced up their sneakers and made the five-kilometer trek around the city’s Back Cove to benefit heart health and education.

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Architecture isn’t BIG’s only growth path

BD+C

Sometime late this year, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) expects to move its headquarters into 52,000 sf of space in Brooklyn, N.Y.’s Dumbo neighborhood, which has been dubbed that borough’s Tech Triangle. BIG’s new location, on the 9 th floor of 45 Main Street, will be more than double the 22,000 sf that the firm currently leases in lower Manhattan, where 200-plus employees work in warren-like proximity.

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Brief demonstration on counterfort retaining wall

Construction Cost Estimating

This construction video is the part 2 series of retaining wall design. In this video, you will learn various aspects of counterfort retaining wall along with the details of stability checks. The video includes brief calculation made for cantilever and counterfort wall. In the counterfort retaining wall, the step and the base slab are connected unitedly with counterforts at proper gaps.

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Kubota Tractor Corporation Joins the National Hispanic Landscape Alliance

Green Industry Professionals

Hispanic Americans make up more than one third of the landscape industry workforce and 17 percent of its business owners.

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Stop Making These Mistakes and Start Scaling Your Specialty Contractor Business

Anything that is built on a poor foundation will soon crumble from the ground up. This is literally the case in the construction stage of projects and it applies just the same during the pre-construction stage. This free eBook is your ultimate guide to scaling your business with customizable software as early as during the bidding stage.

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Contractor Reduces Marine Pile-Driving Time with 3D Controls

ENR Construction

Custom software speeds a complex pile installation in Nova Scotia.

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Lower costs with integrated construction software

Viewpoint Construction Technology

There are numerous places that you are probably losing money, and if you have the ability to look across the organization for detailed information, you can eliminate them. Payroll, for example, impacts your bottom line. If the team in the field is keeping up with their time using paper and pen and filling out timesheets only once a week, mistakes are bound to occur.

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Construction Team Treads Lightly Around Moscone Convention-Goers

ENR Construction

While keeping San Francisco's Moscone Center operational, the project team employs interim bracing systems and a sustainable water system in its expansion.

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Multiple Contracting Companies In QuickBooks Leads To Catastrophic Ruin

Contractor Bookkeeping

Contractors, Bookkeepers and Tax Accountants are trying to keep everything all in one place. That is great. A single bank account on the surface is the answer in simplicity. Sharie’s Cash Management 101 Training I Teach Contractors Please Do Not Do This! Why – when putting everything in one bank account; it could be a FINANCIAL DISASTER. Go to Home Depot, Lowes or any other larger store.

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The Specialty Contractor's Guide to Job Cost Accounting

Supply chain challenges and rising material costs are forcing specialty contractors to pay more for what they need to complete each job. Following a simple set of principles, this easy-to-follow guide can help you manage job costs, ease the pains of accounting, and run a more profitable businesses. If you are a Specialty Contractor or Self-performing GC, you do not want to miss out on this essential guide!

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AGC of Utah Adds Key New Components to Its Safety Training Facility

ENR Construction

The new components were purchased with a $45,000 grant from the Utah Labor Commission, AGC member funds and materials donations.

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Collision Course

Business Facilities

An epic battle is unfolding between California’s Gov. Brown and the Trump Administration over environmental regulations. Business Facilities - Area Economic Development, Site Selection & Workforce Solutions. Business Facilities - Area Economic Development, Site Selection & Workforce Solutions - The Source For Corporate Site Selectors. Collision Course.

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Industry Studies Trump Infrastructure Plan Tenets

ENR Construction

New outline calls for focusing federal spending on critical national or regional projects.