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3 Lessons From the West Virginia DOT on Developing a Drone Program

Construction Business Owner

3 Lessons From the West Virginia DOT on Developing a Drone Program. Elizabeth Manning. Wed, 12/30/2020 - 10:02. State departments of transportation (DOTs) are responsible for building and maintaining critical infrastructure across the country and finding new and innovative ways to address the demands of future growth on the nation’s roads and bridges.

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Millau Viaduct: Construction Features of the World’s Tallest Bridge

The Constructor

The Millau Viaduct is the world’s tallest bridge constructed to connect Northern Europe and Eastern Spain. With its eight spans suspended from seven.

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Insurance Industry Locations: Shaping The New World Of Insurance

Business Facilities

The Hartford Region is home to the headquarters of most of the leading global players in the insurance sector. The insurance industry generates more than $16 billion in output in the region, employing more than 70,000. - Read: Insurance Industry Locations: Shaping The New World Of Insurance at BusinessFacilities.com.

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Historic ‘skyscraper hospital’ in Brooklyn refashioned into 17 luxury condominium residences

BD+C

Polhemus Residences is a 52,707-sf adaptive reuse, renovation, and restoration in the Cobble Hill Historic District Extension of Brooklyn. The enterprise converted the former Polhemus Memorial Clinic (1897), designed by the architect Marshall Emory, into 17 deluxe condominium residences. .

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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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New Products for a New Year

Contractor Magazine

All the big shows are either cancelled or virtual this year, but manufacturers continue to invest in new products. Here’s a few to put on your radar in 2021.

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Designing worship spaces for “Zoom” congregations

Construction Specifier

by Nithya Caleb. The fellowship hall designed for the Holy Trinity Baptist Church in Brooklyn, New York, will feature a large liquid crystal display (LCD) monitor that will allow for service transmission to guests outside the sanctuary. Photos courtesy Body Lawson Associates. Religious organizations around the world have adopted innovative methods to serve their communities and keep the congregation together.

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US Railroads Finally Meet Positive Train Control Install Mandate

ENR Construction

Lines comply with Dec. 31 deadline for key safety technology, spending about $11.5 billion, with $3.4 billion in federal grant and loan funds provided.

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Indian Students Awarded for Innovative Building Material

Natural Building

An innovative sustainable building material project by a team of civil engineering students from Tamil Nadu has won an award at a competition organized by the Entrepreneurship Development and Innovation Institute. They won the ‘Student Innovators’ award for developing the ‘Replast Pavers and Building Blocks’ project. Through this project, the team solved the problem of discarded plastic filling up waste dumps on the city outskirts while reducing demand for natural resourc

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How to Remove Paint from Concrete Without Chemicals | Procedure to Remove Paint from the Concrete Surface | How to Get Spray Paint Off Concrete

CivilJungle

Instruction of Remove Paint from Concrete. Concrete is a widely used building material in the construction industry. Concrete is used in the construction of every structural element. The Concrete surface has a natural light grey. The different types of paints are applied on the surface of the concrete to give aesthetical look to the surface the concrete.

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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.