July, 2018

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What is Artificial Stone? Its Types and Applications

The Constructor

What is artificial stone? Artificial stone, which is also called casted stone, is constructed from cement, sand , and natural aggregate such as.

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OSHA cites Ohio contractor for fatal trench collapse

Construction Dive

Contractor JK Excavation & Utilities is now in the agency's Severe Violator Enforcement Program and faces a potential $200,000 fine.

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4 Commercial Construction Trends for Restaurant and Food Service Projects

HardHatChat

It’s already been a busy year for Englewood’s Restaurant Construction division, with a wide variety of projects ranging from ground-up new construction and interior renovations to commercial kitchen work. As such, here are four commercial construction trends our team has observed and anticipates we’ll see shaping more restaurant and food service construction projects in the near future: Tapping Into The Craft Beer Boom.

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Low-Bid Contractors Don’t Need Marketing.Or Do They?

Construction Business Owner

Do construction contractors that win 100 percent of their business through the low-bid process need marketing? If you are this type of contractor, you will likely insist wholeheartedly that you don’t. After all, as a low-bid construction business owner, your fate lies strictly in the ability of a hard-nosed, creative estimator to bring in new work on bid day.

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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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How to Connect Your Entire Project Team

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Even as technology and modern processes are changing the way contractors have traditionally done business, the construction industry as a whole is still trying to shake off a big productivity gap. The good news, though, is that more and more contractors are looking for ways to improve productivity with technology, and many are seeing quite a bit of success.

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Top 20 construction news sites you have to bookmark

Lets Build

Staying up to date with the latest construction news and trends is always a good idea. The industry is under a continuous change and in that sense keeping yourself well-informed is of tremendous importance. However, sometimes it might not be as easy as you may think. There is a vast number of construction news sites.

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Reflection time: What is really important for your construction marketing?

Construction Marketing Ideas

It’s the middle of the summer, and my construction marketing ideas thoughts have been distracted by some forward personal travel planning. Once a year for the past nine years, Google has invited me to California (once to NYC) for a meet-up or summit because of my voluntary contributions on the AdSense Help Forum. There’s a […].

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What you need to know about the smart jobsite

Construction Dive

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Construction Efforts Scale with New Drone Mission Capabilities

Construction Business Owner

Drones are already making a difference at construction sites. Companies are collecting data to monitor progress, optimize job reports and complete many other construction functions by deploying these small, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). Find out how they're doing this here. .

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How to Prepare for OSHA’s New Crane Rule

Viewpoint Construction Technology

If you work in construction, you’re familiar the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), whose standards regulate safety on the nation’s construction sites. You probably also know the agency isn’t known for making new rules quickly. We have seen a new silica rule that affects construction sites in the past year, though, and now we’re looking at a proposed crane operator certification rule , scheduled to go into effect this November.

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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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Top 20 construction news sites you have to bookmark

Lets Build

Staying up to date with the latest construction news and trends is always a good idea. The industry is under a continuous change and in that sense keeping yourself well-informed is of tremendous importance. However, sometimes it might not be as easy as you may think. There is a vast number of construction news sites.

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Reinforced Concrete Beam Detailing According to ACI Code

The Constructor

Clearly, the detailing of the reinforced concrete members is the key to good design and execution of work at the site.That is why poor detailing of.

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Artificial intelligence is not just hysteria

BD+C

There is an unprecedented wave of speculation and investment in Artificial intelligence (AI) sweeping the industry with ideas like machine learning (ML) appearing as a magic wand of business innovation.

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Smart tips for a storm-resilient jobsite

Construction Dive

No jobsite can be considered "smart" if it's not diligently and intelligently preparing for safety and resilience in the event of a major storm or natural disaster. Tim Ham of Hoar Construction’s Florida division has a few tips on how to prepare jobsites for a big storm.

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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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Securing Better Bonding

Construction Business Owner

For contractors, securing bonding is the lifeblood of their businesses, but it comes with challenges that range from having the necessary working capital to demonstrating a track record of success. Find out how to overcome these challenges, ensuring your construction business is in a good position to attract a surety, and, in turn, profitable projects. .

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Declare Your Independence From Subpar Construction Software

Viewpoint Construction Technology

This Fourth of July, as America celebrates a young 242 years as a free nation, you might be tempted to think of other things you’d like to break free from — debt, social drama, jury duty or perhaps work-related stress. If you’re a contractor still using too many manual processes or having to do even more work because of outdated technologies, that last item might be foremost on your mind, and it might be time for a change.

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5 key benefits from augmented reality for the construction industry

Lets Build

Augmented reality is unlike virtual reality that can only replace the real world through a simulated environment. Instead, it creates and enhances exact replicas of the real world for a better view of the entire project through virtual reality models. AR benefits local service providers, businesses, engineering, design, architecture, project management – and the entire.

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Residential Buildings – Types and Site Selection for Residential Building

The Constructor

What is a residential building? A residential building is defined as the building which provides more than half of its floor area for dwelling.

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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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5 'giant' trends poised to change the face of construction

BD+C

As the BD+C editorial team wrapped up work on the 42nd annual Giants 300 report in late June, a number of intriguing industry trends and themes bubbled to the surface. Some are new to us, others simply confirmed our original notions.

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App uses virtual reality to address fall protection

Construction Dive

The VR Fall Protection Experience app mirrors high-risk construction environments and has users identify fall hazards before creating a protection system.

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Understanding the Profile of a Fraudster

Construction Business Owner

“I didn’t think fraud would happen to me—I have the best employees,” is a phrase I hear all too often when I meet a new client. Unfortunately, fraud is a real and ever-present threat to business.

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Episode 2 – Should You Join a Construction Trade Association?

Viewpoint Construction Technology

A Viewpoint on Construction, Modern Takes on a Transforming Industry. Episode 2: Should You Join a Construction Trade Association? In this episode of A Viewpoint on Construction, the importance of trade associations to the strength of the construction industry and the success of member contractors is examined. Michael D. Bellaman, president and CEO of Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) shares his insights about the positive impacts trade associations can have, from legislative bargaining

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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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GenieBelt to streamline large scale energy renovation project

Lets Build

It’s official! GenieBelt and SustainSolutions join forces in order to empower collaboration and optimise communications during the ambitious large-scale energy renovation project in DGI-Byen. The 30,000 m2 leisure and business centre is located in central Copenhagen and it is about to undergo an extensive energy renovation. The project is expected to cost a total of.

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Determine Effect of Trench Excavation on Nearby Buildings by Rule of Thumb

The Constructor

Clearly, trench excavation affects nearby buildings and causing them to settle. The major factors that cause building settlement are soil relaxation.

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Healthcare and the reality of artificial intelligence

BD+C

“Hospitals of the future” has been the hot topic of conversation around the proverbial office watercooler. My two cent contribution to these conversations usually comes in the form of my assertion that the pragmatics of healthcare architecture can sometimes hold us back from truly imaging what the future of healthcare architecture could be.

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New York construction execs charged with minority fraud

Construction Dive

Two heads of the now-defunct, Albany-based Eastern Building & Restoration were charged with stealing identities of minority-owned businesses to obtain millions in public works contracts.

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Discover 7 Ways to Cut Construction Inefficiencies

Construction sites are often just-barely-controlled chaos. Without clear coordination, you risk everything from clashes to delays, cancellations, and missed deadlines. Get the free eBook & learn how to solve the biggest challenges in construction!

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How to Use IoT to Create Safer & More Lucrative Projects

Construction Business Owner

Construction is a low-margin industry facing a skilled labor shortage and increasingly complex, fragmented projects. While every project is unique, with countless moving parts and diverse physical, environmental or regulatory challenges, that doesn’t mean lessons learned at one site can’t be applied to the next. By failing to capture, unlock and employ insights from one project to the next, owners and contractors miss out on a critical opportunity to make the industry safer, more efficient and,

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Construction IT Professionals: Learn the Secrets to Working Smarter, Simpler at Viewpoint Collaborate 2018

Viewpoint Construction Technology

We know that as an IT professional in a construction organization, you wear many hats — mobile device manager, server maintainer and application help desk to name a few. That’s why we are dedicating an entire educational track at this year’s Viewpoint Collaborate User Conference just for you! This track offers dozens of sessions on timely topics in construction IT, from emerging trends in cloud computing to detailed instruction in Viewpoint software database and reporting tools.

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5 key benefits from augmented reality for the construction industry

Lets Build

Augmented reality is unlike virtual reality that can only replace the real world through a simulated environment. Instead, it creates and enhances exact replicas of the real world for a better view of the entire project through virtual reality models. AR benefits local service providers, businesses, engineering, design, architecture, project management – and the entire.

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What are the Requirements of Partition Walls in Buildings

The Constructor

There are several requirements that a partition wall need to meet otherwise its purpose will be compromised. So, it is necessary to understand.

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Learn How to Boost Productivity for Every Project

For construction contractors, productivity is everything. Download this guide to discover how digital production tracking improves project visibility, data collection, and production insights—all in real time.