Tue.May 09, 2017

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Merging the Generational Gap in Your Workforce

Construction Business Owner

Ask any business owner, executive or manager about his/her company’s most powerful asset. The answer will likely be: “Our people.” Although construction has a unique set of challenges in the face of the rapidly changing technological aspect of our society, communication and collaboration make a big difference when it comes to bridging generational gaps.

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Challenges facing Owners LEAN Facilities Management

Job Order Contracting

Their are many Challenges facing Owners LEAN Facilities Management in terms of moving from theory to practice. Achievement of LEAN Facilities Management requires greater focus upon change management as well improving overall owner leadership skills and competency. In general, real property owners lack an understand of facilities life-cycle and LEAN construction best management practices.

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Are You Hurting Your Operations Team?

Construction Business Owner

Sometimes we hurt the ones we love the most. For many construction organizations, project managers often wear targets the size of a barn door, and they don’t even realize it. A great project manager can have a big impact on an organization, similar to that of a quarterback on a football team. The team rises and falls with each reception or interception thrown, and the same can be said of a project manager and his/her crew.

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Estimating Construction Costs for Job Order Contracts

Job Order Contracting

Estimating Construction Costs for Job Order Contracts properly is critical to the success of any JOC program. As a real proper owner, facilities management professional, or construction contractor, is important to review internal policies, procedures and controls with respect to your JOC Program and Estimating Construction Costs for Job Order Contracts : Are there areas of risk and/or compliance issues?

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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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8 Questions to Help You Find the Right Cyber Insurance

Construction Business Owner

Cyber insurance generally covers the risks of loss from system breaches, data losses and other wrongful acts of rogue employees or outside hackers.

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Video: Emergency Declared At Manhattan Project Nuclear Site In Washington State

Construction Equipment

The Department of Energy has declared an emergency at the Hanford Nuclear site, about 150 miles southeast of Seattle. This morning, a tunnel containing rail cars with contaminated nuclear waste collapsed. The Department of Energy says a 20-foot-by-20-foot section of soil caved in where two underground tunnels meet next to the Plutonium Uranium Extraction Facility.

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Designing for a future of limited mobility

BD+C

Top international design and architecture firm Perkins Eastman recently released its newest white paper, “A Handle on Accessibility: Designing for a Future of Limited Mobility,” co-authored by Associate Michael Schur AIA, LEED AP, and Joshua Bergman, both based in the firm’s Chicago office. The paper marks the culmination of a six-month-long, in-house exercise in which Perkins Eastman’s Chicago staff engaged in various “empathy experiments”—e.g.

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Crumbling Infrastructure Causing Uptick in Man-Made Sinkholes

Construction Equipment

Roger Schneider of The Associated Press writes that sinkholes due to failing water, drain and sewer pipes are appearing at an increasing rate. Cities who have been putting off repairing or replacing water infrastructure projects are looking at some budget-busting construction costs. The American Society of Civil Engineers said that public spending is running far short of what's needed to replace water and wastewater systems that will be outmoded by 2025.

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Potential shade on Boston Common from proposed high-rise raises public ire

BD+C

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh is among those catching heat from critics of a proposed 775-foot residential and commercial tower that requires a change in a state law restricting structures from casting shadows on the city’s historic common. Walsh wants to sell a city-owned parcel containing a parking garage east of the common to a developer. Walsh wants the state legislature to modify a 1990s-era law to allow the transaction to go forward, but public criticism is running high.

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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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Game On!

Construction Equipment

The Las Vegas Stadium Authority released a preliminary project timeline on Monday for the 65,000 seat domed football stadium that will be the new home of the Raiders. The draft of the timeline shows construction to begin in January 2018 and last 30 months, giving the team three months to move in. This may be a somewhat ambitious timeline since none of the last four domed NFL stadiums were finished in 30 months but the stadium authority is betting on smooth cooperation with various agencies for r

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Spiezle Architectural Group looks to the future

BD+C

Last Friday, Spiezle Architectural Group, a 63-year-old design and planning firm, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new 15,000-sf office in Hamilton in central New Jersey. Spiezle had recently relocated to its new headquarters from a former bank building in nearby Trenton, N.J., where the company had operated for over 25 years. Spiezle executives spent over a year looking for the right space, and its move included filling four 30-yard dumpsters with stuff that would not be traveling with Sp

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Simplicity (and emotions) sell: Can you boil it down?

Construction Marketing Ideas

Sometimes the seemingly easiest things are the hardest to do. Our lives (and businesses) are complicated, there are many moving parts, lots of decisions and everything goes round and round. Yet that complexity may be one of the biggest barriers to marketing success, in part because potential clients don’t care so much about the details […].

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Movers + Shapers: The social connector

BD+C

In its 20th year, Studio Gang is enjoying its moment in the sun. Jeanne Gang, the firm’s 53-year-old Founding Principal, who has garnered a MacArthur Fellowship and a passel of design accolades, is among a small handful of architects—and even more rarefied band of female architects—whom the press tags with the adjective “star.” .

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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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Video: Tough Crosstown Construction Commute

Construction Equipment

In late April, police in the southern Chinese city of Chonqing noticed a white van weaving in and out of traffic, narrowly missing other vehicles.

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KIOTI Tractor Honoring First Responders through Video Contest

Green Industry Professionals

#KIOTIShoutOut is a video contest that organizations can enter by submitting a video explaining why your department needs a UTV and how you will use it. Winning organization to receive a KIOTI MECHRON 2200PS.

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Method of estimating amount of CO2 by building occupants may be inaccurate

BD+C

A method to estimate the amount of CO2 generated by building occupants since the early 1980s may be off by as much as 25%.

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Weed Man USA Franchisees Hiring for Thousands of Positions Nationwide

Green Industry Professionals

Franchisees of collectively looking to fill thousands of full- and part-time positions nationwide, including customer outreach representatives, sales & marketing representatives, managers, lawn care technicians and more.

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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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Weekly Product Gallery: BrassCraft, DeWalt, Mansfield, Klein Tools, McElroy, Just Mfg.

Contractor Magazine

This week’s gallery features stainless-steel water connectors, a vehicle charger for tool batteries, a high-efficiency urinal, a jobsite cooler, a fusion tool for polypropylene pipe and an ADA-compliant lavatory system. read more.

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LiveXchange Executive Conference Presentation: The Evolution Of The Global Supply Chain

Business Facilities

Explore the radical transformation now impacting on the largest and most complex global supply chain—the automotive sector—and identify key economic development opportunities that will result from this transformation during the next five years. 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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Some useful construction tips on concrete mix design

Construction Cost Estimating

This construction video tutorial focuses on concrete mix design. In this video grades are taken as M 7.5, M10, M15, M20 and mix ratios for cement, sand and aggregate are taken as 1:4:8, 1:3:6, 1:2:4, 1:1.5:3. The amount of water is required for amalgamating concrete in 50 kg cement. Concrete mix design refers to the method of choosing the appropriate components (cement, sand and coarse aggregates) as well as their relevant proportions with the purpose of developing concrete by maintaining specif

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Kubota Tractor Corporation and The Texas A&M University System Announce Equipment Research Venture

Green Industry Professionals

The partnership harnesses the power of the research-intensive university system to help improve agriculture, construction and turf equipment

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Report: Optimism for Construction Growth in the Next Year Remains High

Research reveals 96% of respondents are very or fairly optimistic about their organization’s growth prospects for the next year. The InEight Global Capital Projects Outlook also finds over half see digital technology as the greatest growth opportunity. But these are only some of the findings. Don't be kept in the dark when it comes to the future. Read the report today!

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IAPMO’s amendment to UPC water heater rules available for comment

Contractor Magazine

TIA UPC 004-15 would revise some values in UPC Table 501.1(1) pertaining to water heater capacity ratings. read more.

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After a Fatal House Explosion, Colorado Seeks New Regs Governing Oil and Gas Pipelines

ENR Construction

The Colorado governor has ordered that all abandoned oil and gas pipelines be marked, cut 3 ft below the surface and capped.

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The Future Of Construction – BIM

Lets Build

Building Information Modeling (BIM) can be a valuable tool in the hands of anyone who works in construction. There’s no doubt that, the concept of collaborative working is becoming more and more popular through the years. That’s why, it’s critical for all construction agents to be aware of the different BIM maturity levels. Before we go further with that, it would really be useful to try to define what BIM actually means.

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After Fatal House Explosion, Colorado Seeks New Pipeline Regulations

ENR Construction

G. John Hickenlooper has ordered that all abandoned oil and gas pipelines be marked, cut 3 ft below the surface and capped.

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Discover 7 Ways to Cut Construction Inefficiencies

Construction sites are often just-barely-controlled chaos. Without clear coordination, you risk everything from clashes to delays, cancellations, and missed deadlines. Get the free eBook & learn how to solve the biggest challenges in construction!

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Union Pacific Plans $3.1 Billion Spend On Rail Infrastructure

ENR Construction

Texas And California Will Get The Bulk Of Upgrades, Mostly Designed To Increase Safety And Minimize Delays.

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Tunnel Collapse at Hanford Nuclear Waste Site Prompts Emergency Declaration

ENR Construction

Incident at the 1960s-era former plutonium production site caused no radiation emission, officials said.

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ENR Southwest Announces Preliminary Top Contractors List

ENR Construction

An inside look at the economics of commercial construction will be revealed in the July issue.