Wed.Aug 21, 2019

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How to Spark a Craft Workforce Revolution

Construction Business Owner

By 2031, 41% of the current workforce will retire, and exiting baby boomers will only continue to exasperate the shortage. How many of your employees plan to retire in the next 5 years? It takes 8 to 12 years for a craft professional to be fully trained and gain competency—have you begun training the next generation yet? .

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What are the Components of Highways?

The Constructor

The basic components of the highway are the road width, cross slope, pavement, road margins, traffic separators, and curbs. These geometric elements.

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Magic and More Lined Up For Collaborate 2019 Keynote Agenda

Viewpoint Construction Technology

This year’s keynote speaker line up for Collaborate 2019.

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How Fine Aggregate Affects Mix Design of Concrete?

The Constructor

Fine aggregate is on of the major constituents of concrete which can influence concrete mix design substantially. Various factors such as fine.

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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 are the construction industry's top economic bellwethers?

Construction Dive

From Caterpillar’s earnings to stock prices and architect billings, construction leaders rely on a variety of economic signs and signals to know when a recession is imminent. What are your top indicators?

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Can Louisiana handle $32B of industrial construction?

Construction Dive

Developers plan on combating a shortage of skilled labor with alternative strategies like modularization and the use of robotic devices.

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4 tips to get your team to adopt a new construction management tool

Lets Build

Change is rarely greeted with open arms, and the introduction of a new construction management tool for your team will prove no different. Implementing a new tool on your team has the potential to speed up and eliminate redundant processes, so making the change may seem like an obvious decision to you. Decision-makers involved in.

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New England: A Rising Tide Of Jobs, Wages

Business Facilities

All six New England States experienced gains in wages and salaries in 2018, with the income surge averaging more than four percent in 2Q 2018. - Read: New England: A Rising Tide Of Jobs, Wages at BusinessFacilities.com.

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How to Set up a Construction Drone Program

Construction Equipment

Drones, also known as unmanned aerial systems (UAS) or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), have improved by leaps and bounds over the last few years, with higher payloads, better cameras, better maneuverability and controllability (including sensors for object detection/collision avoidance), and…

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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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Cincinnati Reds debut renovated Reds Hall of Fame and Museum

BD+C

In honor of 150 years of Cincinnati Reds baseball, the team, in partnership with FRCH NELSON, renovated the Reds Hall of Fame and Museum. The $5 million project renovated over 15,000 sf of the largest team Hall of Fame in Major League Baseball to create a more organized and engaging visitor experience.

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Vermeer Mid Atlantic Adds Three Locations

Construction Equipment

Vermeer Mid Atlantic has acquired Vermeer Northeast, a dealer partner of Vermeer Corp. with locations in New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. According to the company, the move makes it one of the largest Vermeer dealer partners in the country.

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Contractor tops out 850-foot-tall Rainer Square Tower using 'speed core' design

Construction Dive

It took the Erection Co. just 10 months to finish the formwork- and rebar-free Seattle skyscraper.

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Notre Dame Construction Resumes, Lead Concerns Remain

Construction Equipment

Construction resumed at the Notre-Dame cathedral on Monday, just weeks after authorities shut the site down over worries about lead contamination linked to the fire in April. According to the New York Times, the work restarted with “stricter decontamination measures” in place.

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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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Autodesk integrates BuildingConnected with PlanGrid

Construction Dive

The companies say the move will enable contractors to use information developed during preconstruction and building phases and allow field workers to execute their tasks more effectively.

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Easy steps to avoid water damaged walls

BD+C

Water-resistive barriers (WRB’s) that keep the sheathing dry have been part of the residential building process since at least the late 1800’s, in the form of builders’ felt (aka tar paper). Synthetic WRB’s first arrived in the late 1960’s. Since then, lots of similar products have hit the market. Research and experience have also led to the development of what’s known as a rainscreen wall - a detail that creates a space between the siding and the WRB’s.

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Recover from conventional thinking: The future depends on it

Construction Dive

Building materials need to be resilient in order to enable a building to respond to natural disturbances.

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Attack the Causes of Equipment Cost

Construction Equipment

I got into a lot of trouble as a young field engineer by telling my boss that cost overruns were not a problem. I told him that the real problem lay in the way we built our work and that cost overruns were a symptom of the fact that something was not going well.

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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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Construction of $1.1B Globe Life Field marks substantial progress

Construction Dive

The MLB's Texas Rangers announced that construction of its 40,000-seat stadium in the Dallas-Fort Worth area is almost 75% complete.

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Anti-corrosion glass: A clear solution for humid spaces

BD+C

Shower facilities, gyms, pool enclosures, and spas have more in common than just water: They also tend to be designed using glass. Particularly in commercial applications, such spaces often feature glass doors, glass windows, and glass partitions to add a light and airy feel to an often closed environment.

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Lendlease seeks buyers for troubled infrastructure division

Construction Dive

While selling its Engineering Services Division, the Australian firm continues being a leader in U.S. mixed-use development.

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[VIDEO] Foxconn Walls Going Up in Wisconsin

Construction Equipment

Foxconn’s walls are finally going up at its manufacturing facility in Mount Pleasant. According to a TMJ 4 Milwaukee report, more than 400 concrete precast panels are going up, and structural steel works begins next week.

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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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Construction Employment Increases in 40 States, D.C. from July 2018 to July 2019

Construction Superintendent Magazine

Forty states added construction jobs between July 2018 and July 2019, while construction employment increased in 25 states from June to July, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America of Labor Department data. Association officials said the new jobs totals indicate there is a need for new federal investments in career and technical education programs, along with immigration reform. “Demand for projects, and the workers to build them, shows no sign of letting

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[VIDEO] Foxconn Walls Going Up

Construction Equipment

Foxconn’s walls are finally going up at its manufacturing facility in Mount Pleasant. According to a TMJ 4 Milwaukee report, more than 400 concrete precast panels are going up, and structural steel works begins next week.

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Weekly Product Gallery: Rheem, Uponor, Taco, Webstone, Noritz, Flomatic

Contractor Magazine

This week's gallery highlights a smart electric water heater; a smart water monitor; a zone valve for hydronic heating; a union ball for piped systems; a residential combi boiler; and a deep well check valve.

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OSHA Fines Company $20K for Trench Collapse

Construction Equipment

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has fined an Ontario, Oregon-based company nearly $20,000 following the deaths of two men killed in a trench collapse in April.

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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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Uber To Create 3,000 Jobs In Texas

Business Facilities

The transportation and delivery company will invest more than $75 million in its new U.S. General and Administrative Hub in Dallas, TX. - Read: Uber To Create 3,000 Jobs In Texas at BusinessFacilities.com.

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From Marine to Mentor in Equipment Management

Construction Equipment

Les Hill, CEM, fleet manager at B.F. Joy in Hyattsville, Maryland, isn’t the type to panic. “If something bad happens, my response is, well, good,” he says. “Good. It’s an opportunity to learn.

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Architecture Billings Index continues its streak of soft readings

BD+C

Demand for design services in July remained essentially flat in comparison to the previous month, according to a new report released today from The American Institute of Architects (AIA).