Tue.Jan 02, 2018

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5 ways you can improve candidate experience

SAB Magazine

Photo credit: Christin Hume Photography. Are you ready to build your talent pool and fill some great positions? Before you start any recruitment process, you should examine and improve your current candidate experience.

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PayPal sets the pace for the payments industry in 2018

BD+C

For a company once known as a threat to the card networks and banks, PayPal is now an ally as it pushes forward with digital payments.

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KCMA Rebrands as Hitachi Construction Machinery Loaders America

Construction Equipment

KCMA Corporation, a subsidiary of Hitachi Construction Machinery Group, has changed their corporate name to Hitachi Construction Machinery Loaders America Inc effective January 1, 2018. . The company based in Kennesaw, Georgia, intends to increase production and streamline their wheel loader offering in the North American market with manufacturing facilities in Banshu, Japan; Ryugasaki, Japan, and Newnan, Georgia.

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AEC Collection Workflows: Dynamo for Structure

BIM & Beam

The visual programming interface of Dynamo for Revit is enabling structural engineers with the tools to build structural models with minimal energy and make their own structural design tools. In the early stages of the structural design structural engineers and designers can use Dynamo for Revit to interpret the architectural model and explore ways to begin their initial structural design.

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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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Project Management Trends: 2018 Topics to Watch

Construction Equipment

As we move into the New Year, it’s the time for reflecting on what’s happened and what is to come. It feels to me like 2017 passed by in a flash. And yet, we had some significant shifts this year, most notably PMI releasing the sixth edition of “A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge” ( PMBOK® Guide ), alongside the Agile Practice Guide.

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$52 Million Water Utility Project at North Pole Begins

Construction Equipment

The News Miner in Fairbanks, Alaska, reports Exclusive Paving has been awarded a $52.1 million project to expand the water system in North Pole, southeast of Fairbanks, as part of a settlement to correct groundwater damage caused by a sulfolane leak at what was the Williams Alaska Petroleum refinery, now owned by Flint Hills Resources.

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Do Your Performance Improvement Plans Cover These Bases?

Construction Dive

Performance management is an essential part of employee development and company success. It takes careful planning, tracking and analyzing to help employees achieve their goals. An employee gets hired because a hiring manager believes they are the best person for the job; the expectation is not that an employee will fail. Unfortunately, performance doesn’t always go as planned.

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Meet a Teen Who Makes Six Figures Mowing Lawns

Green Industry Professionals

Green Worx offers lawn care, cleanups, snow removal and more, and is on track to pull in over $100,000 this year.

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Booz Allen Hamilton Relocating Offices To Bethesda

Business Facilities

The global technology consulting and engineering firm will retain about 750 employees with help from the Maryland Economic Development Assistance Authority and Fund. - Read: Booz Allen Hamilton Relocating Offices To Bethesda 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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Weekly Product Gallery: Cutting tools

Contractor Magazine

This week we focus on cutting tools: diamond-edge cut-off wheels for cutting metal; a brushless reciprocating saw; a universal pipe saw that cuts metal and plastic pipe; breakaway reciprocating saw blades; a pie-cutting saw with self-centering track blades; and a reciprocating saw with Bluetooth.

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Escue Wood Treated Products Growing In West Tennessee 

Business Facilities

The pressure treated wood manufacturer will create 100 jobs and invest $3.3 million in Milan, TN. . - Read: Escue Wood Treated Products Growing In West Tennessee at BusinessFacilities.com.

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Rocketfish 8-Outlet/2-USB Surge Protector Strip – $24.99

BIM & Beam

Did you get some new electronics this holiday season? If so, a new surge protector might be a good idea! This Rocketfish 8-Outlet/2-USB Surge Protector Strip is on sale for $24.99, regularly $54. This Rocketfish RF-HTS2815 surge protector offers 8 outlets, plus coaxial and phone line protection, to help defend your connected devices against power spikes and surges.

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New Year, New Wages: Minimum Wage Increases Across The U.S.

Business Facilities

On January 1, 2018, 18 states and 19 cities across the United States increased minimum wages, more on deck. - Read: New Year, New Wages: Minimum Wage Increases Across The U.S. at BusinessFacilities.com.

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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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Arup Settles $1.7B Australia Toll Road Revenue Forecast Suit

ENR Construction

As defense breaks down, AE is mum on the pact amount, estimated at about $80 million, reports say.

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Detail lists of useful construction tools

Construction Cost Estimating

Given below, the detailed lists of various useful construction tools and their applications :- Hoe – It is effective for digging and arranging concrete, cement mortar in head pan. Hoe is also useful for excavating the soil but here the metal plate is set with acute angle to the wooden handle. Head Pan – It is utilized to transmit materials. Head pan is built with iron to uprise the excavated soil or cement or concrete to the construction site etc. it is mostly found in construction sites.

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Top 7 Fundraising In’s and Out’s for 2018

ENR Construction

1. OUT: Making donors feel bad , twisting their arms, telling them to give ’til it hurts and shaming them. 1. IN: Making donors feel good , treating them like people (not ATM’s), partnering and giving them the value they want. 2. OUT: Listening to snake oil salespeople who have never had to raise money for a living (face it, they just want you to buy what they’re selling). 2.

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ANSI appoints IAPMO’s Chaney as new chairman

Contractor Magazine

IAPMO has announced that CEO GP Russ Chaney has been elected to serve as chairman of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Board of Directors.

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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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Pipeline Construction to Surge in 2018

ENR Construction

FERC will examine its natural gas pipeline approval process as the number of natural gas pipelines doubled in 2017.

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How to Invite a City to Your Event

ENR Construction

How do you let a city know that they’re not only hosting your conference — they’re also invited to the festivities? The Society of Architectural Historians’ Christopher Kirbabas says that local media is key. SAH works closely with the local press, including placing ads in newspapers and pitching stories to various outlets. “Some tours really catch the local press’ ear, and then it goes from there,” Kirbabas said.

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Do Your Transportation Planning Processes Need a Fresh Perspective?

ENR Construction

By Mike Eaton | Principal, Transportation | Chainalytics | When is the last time you took a step back and evaluated your Transportation Planning process? I spent the majority of my career on the operating side of the table. Similar to most operators, I think I made reasonably sound decisions around the need to change … The post Do Your Transportation Planning Processes Need a Fresh Perspective?

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Spider's web inspires removable implant that may control type 1 diabetes

ENR Construction

For the more than 1 million Americans who live with type 1 diabetes, daily insulin injections are literally a matter of life and death. And while there is no cure, a Cornell University-led research team has developed a device that could revolutionize management of the disease.

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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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House Chairman Shuster to Leave Congress At Current Term's End

ENR Construction

Transportation Committee leader hits GOP limit on term as chairman at end of current Congress.

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