Sun.Dec 22, 2019

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179D Tax Deduction Brought Back to Life thru 2020

Green Building Law Update

This past Friday night while aboard Air Force One the President signed legislation reviving the 179D energy efficient commercial buildings tax deduction, providing an enormous and much needed boost to domestic green building. Almost as compelling as the fictional undead being created through reanimation of a corpse, except here there were no zombies involved; it was Congress’ tax extenders bill bringing back to life $35 Billion of expired tax provisions and providing short term extensions to oth

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Quality and Safety Concern in Building Constructions

The Constructor

Quality control and safety represent increasingly important concerns for project managers. This is because defects or failures in constructed.

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Hempcrete is Gaining Popularity in Australia

Natural Building

Tasmanian builder Andrias McMahon has been working with hempcrete on two recent projects. “The process of structurally making a building with hempcrete is not very far from a conventional building,” he said. “You need to give it a minimum of six weeks to cure — that’s the primary cure. “The overall curing process takes about 50 years to complete; the process is called carbonation as the material takes up atmospheric carbon, that’s the lime, effectively returni

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Determination of Dry Density of Soil by Water Displacement Method

The Constructor

Water displacement test method is used to determine the dry density of soil. It is suitable for evaluating in-place dry density of cohesive soil due.

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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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What is Self-Compacting Concrete and How is it used

Construction Cost Estimating

Self-compacting Concrete, or Self-Consolidating Concrete, generally called SCC, is a fresh concrete that runs under its own weight and does not want external oscillation to undergo compaction. Constructors use SCC in the building structures where it is troublesome to use vibrators for the consolidation of concrete. Why is Compaction Needed? After the liquid or paste concrete is poured in place and should be left to set, it should undergo the compaction process before it starts to harden.

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#84:  Owners' Third Party Beneficiary Rights Against Subcontractors

NH Construction Law

In contract law there is a well-recognized exception to the rule requiring “privity of contract” as a prerequisite to recovery for breach. If you are a “third party beneficiary” of someone else’s contract, you can recover for its breach even though you are not a party to it – as long as the contracting parties so intended. “A third-party beneficiary relationship exists if: (1) the contract calls for a performance by the promisor, which will satisfy some

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What Is Formwork Failure | Causes of Formwork Failure

CivilJungle

What Is Formwork Failure? The construction of a concrete building needs formwork to support. Specific forms are engineered structures that are necessary to support loads like construction materials, fresh concrete, equipment, workers’ movement load, various impacts, and also wind pressure. The forms must bear all the applied burdens without collapse or too much deflection.