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Best Value Job Order Contracting

Job Order Contracting

Build the right team, collaborate with all participants and stakeholders from day one, incorporate LEAN construction processes. The consistent delivery of quality repair, renovation, and new construction projects isn’t difficult. Build the right team, collaborate with all participants and stakeholders from day one and incorporate LEAN construction processes.

Contract 115
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FedEx investing $450M more in $1B Memphis hub modernization

Construction Dive

The shipping giant is spending big on expanding and building new shipping centers all around the country.

Memphis 103
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Vacation: Balancing business forces

Construction Marketing Ideas

Vacation time, handled right, is both refreshing and challenging for anyone with business ownership and leadership responsibilities. If you can’t take a vacation without the enterprise falling apart, you either have failed to build enough scale or you are really poor at delegation. On the other hand, your responsibilities never really disappear.

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ENR Southeast Announces 2019 Best Projects Award Winners

ENR Construction

After reviewing more than 120 submissions, this year's judges chose 40 entries to recognize via ENR Southeast's annual Best Projects awards competition.

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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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Factor of safety for soil bearing capacity

Construction Cost Estimating

Factors of safety for bearing capacity refers to a value that is based on the basis of the type of soil, method of exploration, level of uncertainty in soil, significance of structure and outcomes of failure, and probability of design load proceeding. So, it creates adequate space to adapt uncertainties and potential over loading throughout the duration of the structure and its foundation through the cutback of ultimate bearing capacity of soil to permissible bearing capacity.

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Do Horses Fly First Class?

ENR Construction

Transatlantic travel - for horses.

Travel 28