Wed.Sep 11, 2019

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Daily progress reports in construction: Cutting down on the admin work

Lets Build

What is a daily progress report in construction? Each day on a construction job site is different from the last and those who are involved need to be kept in the loop of what has occurred. One of the easiest ways to do that is by filing a daily progress report. These reports can include.

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Equipment Finance Group Reports Boost in Construction Equipment Financing

Construction Equipment

The Equipment Leasing and Finance Association (ELFA) has released its 2019 Survey of Equipment Finance Activity reporting overall new business volume grew 4.4 percent in the equipment finance industry in 2018. Also in the report, in 2018: Construction equipment represented 13.

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Designing for the next generation of student life: Part 2

BD+C

We can all appreciate the incredible potential of the digital age. Technology has put vast amounts of information at our fingertips and helped level the playing field for personal and intellectual investigation. At the same time, the digital world presents many serious challenges for Generation Z. The internet and social media, while powerful tools to connect people and ideas, have also shown signs of being highly time-consuming, impersonal, and in some cases, detrimental to self-esteem.

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DPR signs with HammerTech for all of its U.S. projects

Construction Dive

The contractor said its use of the software for customized, paperless safety reporting is transforming the way it prevents and identifies hazards.

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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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Digital Media: New Mexico Is Ready For Player One

Business Facilities

New Mexico, already a thriving location for TV and motion picture production, aims to become the go-to place for video game development. - Read: Digital Media: New Mexico Is Ready For Player One at BusinessFacilities.com.

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The Kennedy Center expands for the first time since its 1971 debut

BD+C

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. opened its first-ever expansion on September 7, and is celebrating that opening with 16 days of free programming. Designed by Steven Holl Architects, The REACH, as the addition is known, is anchored by three pavilions—called Welcome, Skylight, and River—located on more than 130,000 sf of sweeping lawn that overlooks the Potomac River.

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"Talking" Trend: Transportation Agencies Turn to Podcasts

Construction Equipment

Podcasts are not new, but they are gaining new attention from transportation agencies that are using them to talk about transportation policies and trends, and general road and agency information.

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Buoyed by construction activity, architect compensation continues to see healthy gains

BD+C

The burst in construction spending over the past several years has been a boon to architectural firms, where as an industry payroll employment has grown by an average of 7,500 positions per year over the past size years. About 4,500 of that annual increase in staffing has been for architectural positions.

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Happy Anniversary Hard Hat Chat: Celebrating 10 Years of Commercial Construction Trends, News, Insights, and Conversation

HardHatChat

In 2009, amid the business challenges of the Great Recession, our company made the decision to start a blog as an outlet to share commercial construction trends, insights, news, and observations on a variety of topics. If you had told me then that we’d still be publishing Hard Hat Chat a decade later – and that it would become an award-winning blog – I probably wouldn’t have believed you.

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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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Lockheed Martin Begins $142M Expansion In Arkansas

Business Facilities

The company has broken ground for its Long Range Fires Production Facility, the first of many expansions at the company's site in Camden that will create 326 jobs. - Read: Lockheed Martin Begins $142M Expansion In Arkansas at BusinessFacilities.com.

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2019 Top 400 Sourcebook: New Life for an Old Bridge in N.C.

ENR Construction

The James B. Garrison Bridges crossing the Lake Tillery reservoir, east of Charlotte, N.C., are undergoing a $20.1-million design-build rehabilitation that will improve safety while preserving the bridges’ past.

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New 2030 Commitment report findings emphasize need for climate action

BD+C

Following the American Institute of Architects (AIA) announcement of the approval of a landmark .

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Concrete Casting in Cambridge, Mass., Believed to Be New England's Largest

ENR Construction

In what is likely the largest continuous concrete casting ever performed in New England, John Moriarty and Associates, in collaboration with G&C Concrete, continuously cast 8,000 cu yd of concrete on Sept. 7 for the $215-million Cambridge Crossing Parcel G project.

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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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Going Hybrid for Maximum Efficiencies

Contractor Magazine

By combining non-condensing and condensing boilers in a hybrid system, users can maximize efficiencies.

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Reviewers OK Fix for San Francisco's Leaning Millennium Tower

ENR Construction

An independent engineering review team has given its nod to the San Francisco Dept. of Building Inspection regarding permitting of the proposed $100-million structural shoring scheme for the 645-ft-tall Millennium Tower—which has settled 17.3 in. and tilted 4 in. over more than a decade.

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Contractor Trucks

Contractor Magazine

If you pay attention, you see them on the street every day, no matter where you are! And we here at CONTRACTOR know you – our readers — love trucks. Just for you, we have created a new truck gallery for you to peruse.

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Quality Control, Support Key to Maximizing the Value of Laser Scanning

ENR Construction

Laser scanning is tempting as a catch all technology to document existing conditions, but quality assurance/quality control and support are absolutely key to making it work for your firm.

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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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Advancements in Water Treatment

Contractor Magazine

A lot has changed in water treatment. Let’s set the record straight.

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CII Study Finds Virtual Reality Helps Reduce Design Errors

ENR Construction

Compared to traditional desktop-based review methods, construction novices with less than three years of experience in the industry were able to double their ability to spot design errors in a 3D model using an immersive virtual reality interface, according to a new study released by the Construction Industry Institute at its annual conference in San Diego last month.

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Building User Connection

Contractor Magazine

It’s hard to believe we are now more than 50 chapter in to our ongoing journey!

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2019 Top 400 Sourcebook: Turner Begins Work on $250M Cincinnati Soccer Stadium

ENR Construction

Turner recently started construction of a $250-million, 510,000-sq-ft Major League Soccer stadium in Cincinnati, called West End Stadium.

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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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What a long strange trip it’s been…

Contractor Magazine

I’ve had a chance to think about where I’ve been, and where I am going in the next few years.

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D.C. Seeks Contractor to Demolish RFK Stadium

ENR Construction

The District of Columbia is looking for a contractor to decommission and demolish RFK Stadium, a sports venue that has served the city for nearly 60 years.

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How to Safely Use Stand-on Mowers on Slopes

Green Industry Professionals

Stand-on mowers are popular, in part, for their hillside stability; but there are limitations to safe mowing on slopes

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Highway Construction Detour Planning System Debuts

ENR Construction

If necessity is the mother of invention, frustration must be its father. For civil engineer Javier Devesa, a highway construction project manager in Washington, D.C., his frustrations with manually planning and filing lane closure requests with the DOT have inspired him to invent a better way.

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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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SnowWolf ActivEdge Floating Sectional Cutting Edge

Green Industry Professionals

SnowWolf ActivEdge is designed for simplicity, durability and versatility

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ENR New England Announces the 2019 Excellence in Safety Award Winners

ENR Construction

A safety expert from the region has selected ENR New England's 2019 Best Projects safety award winners.

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2019 Top 400 Sourcebook: KBR Building $1.3B Methanol Plant in La.

ENR Construction

KBR has started work on the detailed Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) phase of Methanex’s Geismar 3 methanol project in Geismar, La.