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Coronavirus: Are You Liable if Your Employees Test Positive?

Construction Business Owner

Coronavirus: Are You Liable if Your Employees Test Positive? Elizabeth Manning. Tue, 03/10/2020 - 10:31. As the coronavirus continues to spread rapidly around the world, here's what to know to insure your business. Are you liable if your employees test positive for COVID-19?

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Meet the Women Making a Big Impact on Construction

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Viewpoint's Betsie Hoyt will be moderating a live webinar — Thriving Women in Construction — on Wednesday, March 18.

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Coronavirus: Who Will Bear the Risk & Cost for Construction Delays?

Construction Business Owner

Coronavirus: Who Will Bear the Risk & Cost for Construction Delays? Elizabeth Manning. Tue, 03/10/2020 - 11:20. Wondering who will bear the construction risk associated with project delays caused by the coronavirus? Find out what Peter Strniste from Robison-Cole had to say about the COVID-19 crisis.

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What is Offsite Construction?

The Constructor

Off-site construction is a construction procedure that involves the planning, designing, fabrication, transportation of fabricated building items and.

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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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No labor. No infrastructure. No problem.

BD+C

Documenting a construction site is a time-consuming process that can require equipment such as tripods and scanners, the need to hire outside experts to operate said equipment, or tasking an unlucky individual with the job of walking to various points throughout a jobsite and manually taking photographs and video.

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Founders of modular builder Guerdon buy company assets, form new business

Construction Dive

The owners, who bought the Idaho company in a foreclosure sale, say the new firm will capitalize on labor shortages and rising construction costs in West Coast markets.

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Email Sent After Final Payment Held Insufficient to Preserve Timeliness of Claim Against Government

Best Practices Construction Law

They say that hindsight is 20/20. Who is they, anyway? The old proverb means that it is easy to understand something after it has already happened. In the world of construction contracts, preservation of claims made in hindsight does not always get you what you want. In Appeal of Matcon Diamond, Inc. , ASBCA No. 59637 (Feb. 20, 2020), the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals recently denied a claim for Eichleay home office overhead delay damages because: (1) the contractor failed to show

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Improve safety and security with Spot-r on occupied job sites

Construction Dive

Spot-r enabled Apex Building Group to easily manage worker locations and safety incidents across 15 buildings at three project sites.

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Amazon Creating 1,500 Jobs At Two New Hampton Roads, VA Locations

Business Facilities

The online retailer will create 1,000 jobs at a new robotics fulfillment center in Suffolk, and 500 at an import processing center in Chesapeake. - Read: Amazon Creating 1,500 Jobs At Two New Hampton Roads, VA Locations at BusinessFacilities.com.

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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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Questions about accounting practices drive SEC investigation into Fluor, internal probe for Granite

Construction Dive

Fluor took large charge-offs in the second quarter of 2019, and Granite said it is reviewing prior financial reporting from its heavy civil division.

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McKee Foods Investing $500M To Expand Tennessee Operation

Business Facilities

The snack food and granola maker employs more than 3,000 people in Tennessee, and anticipates creating 480 new jobs in Collegedale over the next 15 years. - Read: McKee Foods Investing $500M To Expand Tennessee Operation at BusinessFacilities.com.

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Prescient receives ICC certification for seismic resilience system

BD+C

Prescient, a digital design-build company focused on modular multi-unit housing, has received certification from the International Code Council Evaluation Service (ICC-ES) for its Prescient Seismic System.

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Panel's Review of Transit Center's Fractured Girders Draws Heated Reactions

ENR Construction

The public authority that owns and runs the Salesforce Transit Center in San Francisco forcefully disagrees with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission's independent expert panel that reviewed the 2018 brittle fractures in twin built-up plate girders.

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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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SmithGroup helps Higher Ed clients analyze their space

BD+C

About a year ago, SmithGroup merged with Paulien & Associates, a higher education planning firm based in Denver. The two companies had worked together on various projects for a decade, and Paulien has provided planning services for over 700 campuses.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud Network Has 1 Million Users, Software Vendor Says

ENR Construction

Amy Marks joins California software vendor as executive and technology "evangelist" in its construction group after departing her prefab software startup XSite Modular.

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Last Year’s Good Work at Good Earth Global

Natural Building

Good Earth Global does wonderful work around the world. Last year they built a dormitory for Resilient Steps, a Netherlands-based non-profit serving girls who are victims of child trafficking, child labor, sexual abuse, child marriages and other traumas. This was in Pokhara, Nepal, with the help of 30 volunteers from SOS Nepal. They completed four houses for women and their kids whose homes were destroyed by the 2015 earthquake, focusing on homes for widows and single women, in partnership with

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ENR Mountain States Previews Region's Top Project Starts of 2019

ENR Construction

The final list, ranked by dollar volume of construction cost, will appear in the April issue of the magazine.

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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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Design Review Finds Concerns on $962M Houston Bridge

ENR Construction

Project construction, which started in 2018, was halted in January to complete the third-party review.

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Labor Dept. Sides with Construction Unions on Apprenticeship Rule

ENR Construction

Final rule retains construction exclusion from new industry-recognized apprentice programs.

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Caterpillar, Case CE Launch New Equipment at CONEXPO 2020

ENR Construction

CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2020 opened on Mar. 10 under cloudy skies, but crowds were not visibly deterred by the weather or threats of COVID-19.

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Design Review Finds Concerns on $962M Houston Bridge Project

ENR Construction

Construction of the bridge project, which started in 2018, was halted in January while the design review was completed.

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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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Clark and Perkins Eastman Settle Lawsuit Over $1.2B D.C. Project

ENR Construction

Firms did not disclose terms in ending their design dispute over mixed-use development, The Wharf.

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Hand Safety and Gloves: How Much Protection Can You Buy?

ENR Construction

Help ENR investigate how much safety gloves can help limit damage to hands.

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