Tue.Sep 19, 2017

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Cost of Pile Foundation vs. Other Foundations for Construction Projects

The Constructor

Selection of pile foundations based on cost vs. other foundations for construction projects and factors affecting pile foundation cost is.

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Partnering to Boost Profits

Construction Business Owner

Similar to scheduling an annual checkup with your physician, completing regular maintenance for heavy equipment is one of the best ways to keep your fleet in the best shape possible. Most daily maintenance can be completed by your operators following the instructions provided in the manufacturer’s operation and maintenance manual. For some service needs, your equipment may need to be transported to your dealership to be performed by a trained service technician.

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How To Know When You Need Real-Time Project Management Software

Lets Build

Staying up to date with what’s happening on your project at any moment is fundamental in construction. During the construction process, various problems may emerge. In such cases, immediate action is considered to be more than necessary. For that reason, the ability of communicating these hiccups in real-time is fundamental.

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Finding Freedom & Wealth

Construction Business Owner

The top two reasons entrepreneurs go into business are for the pursuit of freedom and wealth. This includes freedom from working for someone else and the ability do business as they please; freedom to say no to bad customers, jobs, employees or contracts; and the freedom to go to work if and when they want.

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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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Concrete That Melts Snow & Ice All By Itself

Construction Equipment

Researchers from Drexel University, Purdue and Oregon State have discovered that adding phase change materials to concrete can give surfaces the ability to melt ice and snow. The discovery means that roads could one day be deiced and snow free without the use of road salts and deicing chemicals. Above: Adding paraffin oil to aggregate used in concrete mix gives it the ability to melt ice and snow when temperatures fall.

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Benchmarking regulations prompt jump in green certified properties

BD+C

According to CBRE's 2017 National Green Building Adoption Index, which ranks 30 of the largest commercial office markets in the U.S. by the share of green-certified square footage, 38% of all office space in the nation's largest markets were LEED and/or ENERGY STAR certified as of 2016. This is a slight increase from the 37% reported in 2015, but a huge jump from 2005, when less than 5% of office space was certified.

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Nine Facebook retargeting campaign ideas that will boost your revenue in a flash

Construction Marketing Ideas

I rarely accept guest posts because of concerns about SEO abuse, but broke my rule here for this contribution from Mark Cirillo from Leadsbridge, because of its specialized relevance. LeadsBridge offers a resource to connect your email marketing software, CRM and webinars to Facebook lead ads and custom audiences. If you are looking for a way to […].

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Commercial Construction Index finds high optimism in U.S. commercial construction industry

BD+C

Commercial construction is in high demand across the country and contractors remain optimistic about the current and forward-looking health of the sector, according to the Q3 USG Corporation + U.S. Chamber of Commerce Commercial Construction Index (‘Index’), released today.

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Video: Dozer Backs Over Squad Car During Chase

Construction Equipment

Just released: Kankakee dashcam video - click here. The Kankakee Police Department released the dashcam video today showing the August 24, 2017 incident of Austin White, 18, joyriding a stolen bulldozer around the streets of Kankakee, Illinois. The dozer, which appears to be a Deere model, was stolen from a secured construction site sometime before 3 a.m.

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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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Weekly Product Gallery: Faucets

Contractor Magazine

This week’s gallery focuses on faucets: a lavatory faucet with a “floating” handle; a vintage-style bar faucet with temperature memory; a WaterSense-certified bathroom faucet; a kitchen faucet with foot-control technology; an abstract-shaped “stealth” bathroom faucet; and a commercial-grade-type pre-rinse kitchen faucet.

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Crucial conversations part one: BIM vs. VDC, is there a difference?

BD+C

Do you use BIM (Building Information Modeling) or VDC (Virtual Digital Construction)? Both? What’s the difference? If you are asking yourself these questions, and struggling with the answers, you are not alone. In the first part of a four-part series, Bluebeam VP Sasha Reed sat down with industry experts to examine the need for defining and understanding digital workflows and data management throughout the design and construction project lifecycle.

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Vanair Acquires Cyclone Air Power

Construction Equipment

Vanair Manufacturing, located in Michigan City, Indiana, recently announced the acquisition of the Cyclone Air Power product line from Sullivan-Palatek Inc. Vanair provides vehicle-mounted air compressors, generators, welders, hydraulics, chargers/boosters, engine starters and custom products worldwide. The acquisition of Cyclone Air power will add Cyclone's PTO driven power systems to the company's product offerings.

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Small UCHealth hospital in Longmont, Colo., designed with ability to grow over time

BD+C

UCHealth Longs Peak Hospital, designed by EYP Health, is a new 210,000-sf hospital that provides more than 50 inpatient beds. The facility was designed with the ability to expand quickly, and has room to increase its inpatient bed count up to 100. The hospital features an intensive care unit, operating rooms, a Level III trauma center and emergency department, advanced cardiac services, a birth center with a Level II special care nursery, a surgery center, and 24-hour retail pharmacy, laboratory

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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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Manitex Names N.A. President

Construction Equipment

Steve Kiefer has been named President, North America, by Manitex International. Kiefer has held senior roles with Manitex and affiliated companies since 2015, the company says, and brings with him more than 25 years of experience within the industrial equipment sector. He was VP of Sales for Pettibone Heavy Equipment Group prior to joining Manitex at Manitex- Sabre Industrial Tanks and Equipment.

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What we talk about when we talk about placemaking

BD+C

As we wait to see the full effects of Brexit take hold, London keeps growing, and over recent decades, the capital’s population has reached uncharted levels. Birth rates continue to accelerate, citizens are living longer, and more and more people still look to move to the capital for work. If we continue to grow at this pace, we’ll hit 10 million people before 2030—a figure that brings many challenges.

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Vermeer Completes Acquisition of McLaughlin

Construction Equipment

Vermeer Corp. has acquired the remaining non-Vermeer interests of McLaughlin Group. Vermeer took an initial vested position in McLaughlin in 2012, when it acquired a minority interest in the Greenville, S.C., company.

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New Book - Delivering COBie Using Autodesk Revit

Revit OpEd

A team of authors led by Bill East (COBie inventor) has finished a book dedicated to COBie and Revit. His team consists of: Shawn O'Keeffe, Richard Kenna and Emma Hooper. Bill writes: "This is the first comprehensive COBie How-To Guide! We explain the implications of COBie requirements on your professional standard-of-care. Next, we describe the architectural and engineering design best-practices we adopted to help us capture COBie as part of our standard design process.

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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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Border Wall Prototype Build Faces Constitutional Challenge

Construction Equipment

More litigation could block the administration's plan to construct a wall at the Mexico - U.S. border.

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Bill Clinton to Give Greenbuild Conference Keynote in Boston

ENR Construction

President Bill Clinton will give the keynote address at the 2017 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo at 6 p.m. on Nov. 9 at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.

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Oxitec To Build Mosquito Egg Production Unit In UK

Business Facilities

Oxitec Ltd. plans to build its first centralized Friendly™ Aedes egg production unit, with the capacity to generate one billion mosquito eggs per week, in Oxfordshire, UK. Oxitec is a wholly owned subsidiary of Intrexon Corporation. Intrexon will invest $9.5 million in Oxitec’s new production unit in Oxfordshire, in addition to the $182 million investment since Intrexon acquired the Oxford University spinout in 2015.

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The role of a quantity surveyor in construction sector

Construction Cost Estimating

Liabilities of a Quantity Surveyor: A Quantity Surveyor (QS) is a professional who mainly deals with construction costs and contracts associated with the Construction Industry. The role of a quantity surveyor is to recognize and compile the related costs with the purpose of creating a complete budget for any project. A quantity surveyor can then accept cost planning to facilitate all the members of the design team to find out the practical solutions and maintain the budget of the project.

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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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Lytx Moves Manufacturing Operations To U.S. From China

Business Facilities

Lytx has decided to move the manufacturing of its award-winning video event recorders from mainland China to Logansport, IN. The move will bring 70 new jobs and $50 million in investment to Indiana. Manufacturing will be done at Cal-Comp USA’s Logansport plant, which has clean-room manufacturing for a diverse set of industries, from aerospace and defense to medical devices.

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Renovation/Restoration Best Project: New York Public Library Rose Reading Room Restoration

ENR Construction

In 2013, a 16-lb ornamental plaster rosette fell from the 52-ft-high ornate ceiling in the New York Public Library’s Rose Reading Room.

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Eighth Annual Sonnhalter Tool Drive raises $30,000 in donations for Habitat for Humanity

Contractor Magazine

Sonnhalter partnered with Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity for an eighth year during its annual Sonnhalter Tool Driv

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Chicago's Flexible, Transforming Theater Space

ENR Construction

All the world's a stage thanks to flexible seating towers at the Yard at Chicago Shakespeare

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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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VIDEO: Vortex Impeller Advantage

Contractor Magazine

Zoeller Pump Company discusses the differences between vortex impellers and other impellers in solids handling pumps.

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Residential/Hospitality Best Project: 56 Leonard

ENR Construction

With its atypical floor plates, many cantilevered floors and irregular balcony spacing and locations, 56 Leonard has been dubbed the Jenga building, since it resembles the children’s tower block game.

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Vortex Impeller Advantage

Contractor Magazine

Zoeller Pump Company discusses the differences between vortex impellers and other impellers in solids handling pumps.

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