Job Order Contracting

APRIL 13, 2017

Facilities Lifecycle Management requires increased competency on the part of facilities owners and facilities management. See asset life-cycle model… A total cost of ownership perspective is also required as opposed to the more prevalent practice of first-cost dominance. LEAN collaborative construction delivery and similar best management practices provide a framework for generating positive facilities management outcomes versus economic and environmental waste.

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BD+C

APRIL 13, 2017

The latest trend in integrated healthcare and wellness is the emergence of facilities that track and enhance human performance at the intersection of medicine, fitness, nutrition, and recovery. At least one startup, Chicago-based Shift, is testing the public’s fervor for one-stop-shop services that combine to minimize acute and chronic pain, illness, and disease by encouraging everyday healthy living. .

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Construction Equipment

APRIL 13, 2017

Vincent 'Vinny' Vertuccio admitted Wednesday to United States District Judge Eric Vitaliano in a New York courtroom to filing fraudulent tax returns, money laundering, and obstructing an investigation into a scheme to defraud the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in connection with the $11.4 million rebuilding or 1 World Trade Center.

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BD+C

APRIL 13, 2017

NAIOP, the Commercial Real Estate Development Association, recently released its annual study “ Economic Impacts of Commercial Real Estate ” in which it details the development, construction, and ongoing operations of new commercial real estate in the U.S.

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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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Construction Equipment

APRIL 13, 2017

Russell McMurry, Georgia's state transportation commissioner, announced yesterday that GDOT has placed a hefty bonus on the table if CW Matthews, the contractor repairing the I-85 overpass, can finish the job and re-open I-85 before the originally agreed upon June 15 completion date. McMurry gave a status update on the progress of the reconstruction project so far during Wednesday's update.

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ENR Construction

APRIL 13, 2017

In January, a year after Flint, Mich.’s corrosive, lead-tainted drinking water prompted President Obama to declare a state of emergency, Marc Edwards slept on a fold-out couch in a cold, empty home in the city to test its water at 3 a.m.

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BD+C

APRIL 13, 2017

On March 29, Cushman & Wakefield brokered the $14.7 million of a two-story, 24,600-sf medical building in North Hills, N.Y., which traded at a 6% cap rate. Around the same time, an affiliate of Inland Real Estate Acquisitions sold four newly constructed medical buildings totaling 119,000 sf in the Houston, Raleigh, N.C., and Salt Lake City markets.

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Green Industry Professionals

APRIL 13, 2017

Software tool helps million-dollar businesses get their arms around cash flow with 13-week projections, excel-based workbooks and easy-to-understand instructions.

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Cash Flow Software Software 56

BD+C

APRIL 13, 2017

When you think of a research lab, you might conjure images of sterile equipment and white lab coats—and there is some truth to that picture. Designing research labs requires meticulous attention to the details of equipment planning, environmental health and safety (EH&S) and the processes that support science. While most labs are designed to achieve that basic functionality, a transformational lab environment prioritizes a science organization’s most valuable assets: its people.

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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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Construction Dive

APRIL 13, 2017

By Bruce Jervis General or prime contractors have always been enamored with indemnification clauses. Place one in every subcontract and if there is any injury on the project the subs will ultimately be liable. The prime contractor will be exonerated even if it shared responsibility for a safety hazard. Read more.

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Construction Equipment

APRIL 13, 2017

SkyX, an Ontario, Canada startup, has developed a line of fully autonomous UAS that, while originally designed for the oil and gas industry, will fit construction industry applications well. The drone is named SkyOne and perhaps the best feature of the new UAV is that when it needs to be recharged, the bird will autonomously find the nearest 'xStation', the system's charging platform, that can be kept at home base or located in a remote area.

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Construction Dive

APRIL 13, 2017

Featured here in December 2015 (Vol. 4 - Issue 48) as one of the top 5 videos of 2015, we learned that 4D modeling played an essential role in the success of the new Vikings stadium - bringing it in ahead of schedule and under budget. Check out the model in this short 1-minute video.

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Construction Marketing Ideas

APRIL 13, 2017

I have a real challenge in managing the websites and editorial content for eight publications/websites serving distinctive regional markets. There’s a constant need for content, especially since we publish weekly eletters as well as the websites and related magazines. This means, if you number comes up lucky (or you do the right things), your good-news […].

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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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Construction Dive

APRIL 13, 2017

This week's blog highlights from across the industry look at: Construction Marketing: Insight on Publicity – Free and PaidPrivate Group Wants to Finance VA Hospital – With 80% Cost SavingsFair and Open Competition ActRead more.

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ENR Construction

APRIL 13, 2017

In an effort to reduce the chance that other cities could face lead-contaminated drinking water like that in Flint, Mich., Gov. Rick Snyder (R) has proposed standards for lead and copper in drinking water that would be more protective than federal rules.

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Construction Cost Estimating

APRIL 13, 2017

This construction video provides some useful guidelines for creating the drawing of SFD and BMD for one sided overhanding beam with point loads. Shear force and bending moment diagrams are represented as SFD and BMD. These are called as analytical tools and applied in combination with structural analysis to facilitate carrying out structural design by ascertaining the value of shear force and bending moment at a specified point of a structural element like a beam.

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ENR Construction

APRIL 13, 2017

Almost a month before Pam Radtke Russell joined the staff of Engineering News-Record full time, we gave her one of the biggest assignments any editor or reporter at ENR gets: writing the Award of Excellence story.

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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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BD+C

APRIL 13, 2017

A former Occupational Safety and Health Administration official has been publishing information about fines and safety violations after the Trump Administration halted the practice.

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ENR Construction

APRIL 13, 2017

The opposite of a hero isn’t always a villain. The opposite of a hero can be a bystander.

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ENR Construction

APRIL 13, 2017

As the following stories demonstrate, the past is prelude to the present

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ENR Construction

APRIL 13, 2017

McCormick Construction has completed major renovations for the 45,000-sq-ft Westwood One radio broadcast facility campus in Culver City, California.

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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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ENR Construction

APRIL 13, 2017

Highway crossing designed to relieve congestion on East London's Blackwall tunnel.

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ENR Construction

APRIL 13, 2017

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