HardHatChat

AUGUST 12, 2014

'Recently, Englewood completed the 23,000-square-foot Harry Carays 7th Inning Stretch and Chicago Sports Museum at Chicagos famed Water Tower Place. Theres no question about it, commercial construction is back in a big way in the Chicago area, as Crains Chicago Business recently reported in a story featuring Englewood Construction , activity of is up 16 percent when compared to the same time period last year for all commercial construction.

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Construction Business Owner

AUGUST 22, 2014

'The Insurance Research Council indicates that roughly 35 percent of workers’ compensation claim dollars are paid to fraudulent claimants. Another study by the National Insurance Crime Bureau states that the total cost of workers’ comp fraud is $7.2 billion per year. Fraudulent claims increase immediate insurance policy costs and long-term rating discounts and modifiers.

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The Constructor

AUGUST 28, 2014

'Modern construction project management has incorporated quality management principles and initiatives in their activities. Modern quality management.

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Construction Marketing

AUGUST 28, 2014

'How can you improve your credibility as a Construction Marketer and get some hardware for your hard work? The Construction Marketing Association STAR Awards is your opportunity to solidify your name as a top construction marketer in your field today. Submit your Entries before the deadline on September 5, 2014 for your chance to win. Are You a Construction Marketing Star?

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Carol Hagen

AUGUST 7, 2014

'Bluebeam provides you with many options for configuring your profiles including the ability to position tabs within panels. Panels can be split into multiple areas to allow accessing multiple tabs in the same panel at the same time. This maximizes the usable space in the panels. In this example we’ll position the thumbnails tab above all the other tabs in the left panel.

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BD+C

AUGUST 8, 2014

'There''s a new LEGO set for architects to get excited aboutactually, one made for architects. LEGO Architecture Studio is made up of 76 unique elements and over 1,200 pieces, and is intended to give the builder as much freedom as possible, Dezeen reports. Body Image: read more.

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Construction Business Owner

AUGUST 15, 2014

'Telematics and fleet management technologies can save contractors time and money. The following data shows the bottom-line benefits of fleet optimization in on-road vehicles. Source: FleetBeat Report Volume 1 by Fleetmatics. For more information, visit [link].

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The Constructor

AUGUST 29, 2014

'Planning, scheduling is an important part of the construction project management. Planning and scheduling of construction activities helps engineers.

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BIM & Beam

AUGUST 1, 2014

'This video provides insight into how to use the Revit tools in the best way for creating complete shop drawings and final rebar schedules. Take a look at the partitioning, the numbering, the bar presentation, the multi-rebar annotation tools and more in action.

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Carol Hagen

AUGUST 14, 2014

'Many construction firms hyperlink RFIs on their plans. They cloud the area pertaining to the RFI, add a text box and type in “RFI-100″ then add the hyperlink. This tip shows you how to make the text box auto fill with the next available number on your document. You’ll want to add this to your custom tool today! Create a text box with no text in it.

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Business Facilities

AUGUST 1, 2014

'Business Facilities magazine has released the results of its 10th Annual Rankings Report, naming Louisiana as the state with the Best Business Climate. Louisiana surged into the top slot in BF ‘s annual state business climate assessment from last year’s fourth-place finish. Utah, Texas, Tennessee and Indiana rounded out the top five, respectively, in this year’s Best Business Climate ranking. “Louisiana has been a perennial contender for our coveted Best Business Climat

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BD+C

AUGUST 26, 2014

'Shenzhen-based firm UNIT plans to bring to life something that has only existed in episodes of The Jetsons: a so-called sky street (sans the Googie design). Body Image: read more.

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Construction Business Owner

AUGUST 12, 2014

'2004. 2014. Price of gasoline per gallon. Annual value of construction put in place. $988.5 billion. $956.1 billion. Movie ticket price.

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The Constructor

AUGUST 20, 2014

'High-rise buildings have unique challenges related to fire protection such as longer egress times and distance, evacuation strategies, fire.

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Contractor Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2014

'Chilled beams with a splash of DOAS. Sounds like a stiff drink on a hot summer’s night. But sustainable HVAC design is the straw that stirs the drink at the new $60-million, 300,000-sq.ft. George Rogers Clark High School in Winchester, Ky. read more.

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Construction Equipment

AUGUST 7, 2014

'In the latest analysis by ABI Research, OEM telematics and aftermarket telematics will be dominant sectors for cellular machine-to-machine (M2M) connections, growing to over 40 percent connection share. This is in a market where cellular M2M connections will grow by double-digits regardless of application category. By 2019, more than 600 million connections will reside on cellular networks.

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Business Facilities

AUGUST 25, 2014

'This Contributed Column is brought to you by REAL STREET Expo , a new event sponsored by Business Facilities and Today’s Facility Manager magazines. Posted by Heidi Schwartz. The fundamental technology for infusing intelligence into the power grid has been in existence for years – more than a decade, in some cases. Today, the market for smart grid technologies is evolving rapidly as the need for a more responsive, automated, and efficient power grid rises worldwide.

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BD+C

AUGUST 12, 2014

'The new Florida Polytechnic University whose 170-acre campus and iconic Main Building (pictured) were designed by architect Santiago Calatravawill formally mark its opening on August 16 with a ceremony at the campus in Lakeland, Fla. The university is Floridas 12th and newest member of the State University System and will welcome its first students later in August.

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Contractor Bookkeeping

AUGUST 27, 2014

'QuickBooks For Contractors Setup. We Fix Bad QuickBooks For Contractors Setup Issues. Did someone setup QuickBooks by trying to follow the built in template inside QuickBooks and you figured out you cannot get any of the financial and job costing reports you need to operate and grow your construction company? Let us handle your QuickBooks setup for your contracting company because accurate QuickBooks contractor reports are what profitable contractors use to help them steer their construction co

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BIM & Beam

AUGUST 13, 2014

'I am happy to share with you another whitepaper. This time it is a document on Wind Load Simulation in Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis. This whitepape is also available on the iBooks Store.This book is available for download with iBooks on your Mac or iPad, and with iTunes on your computer. .

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Contractor Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2014

'A handful of the most recent issues in the industry, affecting all contractors, are education and training, residential fire sprinklers, green building, and lead free piping. All these issues warrant further investigation (we have done intensive articles on all these topics throughout the years). However, the one topic that intrigues me going forward is recruiting.

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Construction Equipment

AUGUST 21, 2014

'Caterpillar Inc. commemorated the production of 75,000 wheel tractor-scrapers at the Decatur, Ill., facility. The open-bowl, twin-engine 627K, is built to move high volumes of material quickly and economically with optimum fuel efficiency. “Scraper sales have been rebounding steadily in North America since the last downturn,” said Caterpillar Mining Products Vice President Tom Bluth.

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Business Facilities

AUGUST 27, 2014

'Posted by Heidi Schwartz. Gov. Scott Walker. Officials from the Mid-West Energy Research Consortium (M-WERC) joined Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and others to unveil plans for the new Energy Innovation Center (EIC), a facility that will accelerate the development of innovative technology in the energy, power and control industry.

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BD+C

AUGUST 20, 2014

'Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) Construction Backlog Indicator (CBI) reached an all-time high in the second quarter of 2014. CBI improved 5.4 percent following a 2.8 percent decline in the first quarter and currently stands at 8.5; up 3.6 percent on a year-over-year basis. "The long-awaited brisk nonresidential construction recovery may be upon us," said ABC Chief Economist Anirban Basu.

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PSMJ Resources

AUGUST 20, 2014

'Winning the job does not mean the marketing of the firm and the team is over. In fact, the moment of highest anxiety for the client is right after they have hired you for the job. "Did we make the right choice? Will they deliver what they promised, or what we thought they promised? Will we be able to get along with these people for the next two years?

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Revit OpEd

AUGUST 4, 2014

'I wrote about a workset tip/trick that describes how we can use consistent workset names between linked file to manage which elements should be visible/open more easily. In the last couple release there''s been a subtle issue between what we see in the Workset dialog versus Manage Worksets access through the Manage Links dialog or via right click > Manage Links (selecting a link in the Project Browser).

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Contractor Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2014

'DES PLAINES, ILL. — Water reuse will become increasingly necessary. It’s necessary now, such as in Orange County, Calif., where they are using reclaimed water to recharge the aquifer to prevent Pacific Ocean salt water from leaching into the drinking water supply. read more.

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Construction Equipment

AUGUST 22, 2014

'Deere & Company announced that it will place approximately 460 employees who work in the company''s Waterloo, Iowa operations on indefinite layoff in response to current market demand for its products. Deere said employees were informed today of the layoffs, which are effective Oct. 20, 2014.

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