Construction Business Owner
AUGUST 31, 2015
For owners and operators, machine maintenance is a necessary evil. While daily inspections may take time out of each day, it is better to find issues early than let them grow into bigger problems down the road. However, there are several simple tips that can be used to shorten the time and effort spent maintaining your machine.
Green Building Law Update
AUGUST 30, 2015
In recent days, I asked the question, “what one change would you make to LEED to encourage green building?” to four score and seven people familiar with green building. This was a highly unscientific poll that is not representative. The small sample was not randomly selected, but rather each was a professional working on green building projects, so the results have some statistical reliability.
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Construction Equipment
SEPTEMBER 3, 2015
Construction employment increased in fewer than half of the nation’s metro areas between July 2014 and July 2015, the weakest expansion since late 2011, according to a new analysis of federal employment data released today by the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC).
Contractor Magazine
SEPTEMBER 1, 2015
Before the Global Water Center was built, The Water Council — a non-profit organization founded in 2009 — was created to be the central connector of all the water technology business groups and universities. read more.
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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.
Construction Business Owner
SEPTEMBER 2, 2015
OSHA issued a proposed rule for a substance-specific standard on crystalline silica in September 2013, and for good reason. Respirable crystalline silica, which is 100 times smaller than an ordinary grain of sand, is associated with cutting, sawing, grinding, mixing, drilling and crushing stone, rock, concrete, brick, block, mortar and certain industrial sands.
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Revit OpEd
SEPTEMBER 2, 2015
View Templates are quite useful and potentially powerful when they are allowed to be aggressive , placed in charge of Views. To make a View Template the Boss we just need to assign one to a view via its View Template parameter. Using the Right Click option to Apply Template Properties does not a boss make. It just applies the template settings but then leaves the view open to abuse.
Green Industry Professionals
SEPTEMBER 1, 2015
Three leading green industry consultants offer insights and advice to help landscape contractors take a more strategic approach to managing a line of credit.
Construction Business Owner
SEPTEMBER 4, 2015
busybusy takes timecards from a paper process process to a real-time, shared activity. The app saves you and your workforce time and money by digitalizing the time-tracking process. Employees clock in when they reach the jobsite, and a GPS tracker time stamps the location so you can see where your employees are and what they are working on.
Construction Equipment
SEPTEMBER 2, 2015
U.S. construction spending rose 0.7 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1.08 trillion, the highest level since 2008, according to data from the U.S. Department of Commerce. The increase in spending was led by factory and power plant construction, as well as residential construction. Total construction spending has risen 13.7 percent over the past 12 months.
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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.
Contractor Magazine
SEPTEMBER 2, 2015
Nelson Mechanical Design is CONTRACTOR's Contractor of the Month for September. Find out why we at CONTRACTOR magazine believe Nelson Mechanical Design is a top-notch contractor! read more.
Revit OpEd
SEPTEMBER 2, 2015
Back in December 2011 The Revit Clinic shared a post called Interior Elevations and Large Coordinates in the Project. It's worth echoing it again four years later. It boils down to this. If you link a DWG file that has geometry that extends beyond Revit's 20 mile threshold then you may find elevation views (or section views) look transparent. In 2016 I find that some views just stop responding to Visual/Graphic Style settings at all.
Construction Business Owner
SEPTEMBER 2, 2015
Tires are the power transfer point between the work surface and your loader. Some construction sites have soft ground material like sand or dirt, while other sites consist of rock, asphalt and concrete surfaces, which are more abrasive.
Construction Equipment
AUGUST 31, 2015
Mack Trucks, along with Daimler Truck North America (DTNA), Navistar and Volvo Trucks, decided not to exhibit at the 2016 Mid-America Trucking Show (MATS), reports HDT Trucking info. Mack spokesman Chris Heffner told HDT Trucking info that because of the other truck makers' decisions to skip the 2016 show, the company has "concern with reduced attendance and reduced return on investment for our involvement in the show.
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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?
Contractor Magazine
SEPTEMBER 1, 2015
Nonresidential construction spending expanded 0.5 percent in July and is up 12.7 percent on a year-over-year basis, according to a Sept. 1 release by the U.S. Census Bureau. read more.
Revit OpEd
SEPTEMBER 3, 2015
When we need to track down a family that might be loaded into one or more project files we can use master schedule project that includes links for all the relevant project files. If one of the project files already has links to all the others then we can just use that one for this instead. A schedule focused on the relevant category that also uses the option Includes elements in links can be quite useful.
Construction Business Owner
SEPTEMBER 1, 2015
CBO : Tell us about the major differences between fleet management solutions and safety systems for large trucks/heavy equipment/fleets.
Construction Equipment
SEPTEMBER 4, 2015
Beta testing is under way for B4UFLY, a smartphone app that provides unmanned aircraft operators with UAS flying restrictions in effect in certain locations. The app plots an operator’s location on a map and shows whether or not they are too close to an airport or other areas restricted from unmanned aircraft flights. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released BQUFLY to approximately 1,000 beta testers, including members of industry, government and the public.
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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.
Contractor Magazine
AUGUST 31, 2015
Orlando-based Comprehensive Energy Services, Inc. started $16.2 million of heating, ventilation, air conditioning, plumbing and special effects work at seven new Orlando-area projects. read more.
Revit OpEd
AUGUST 31, 2015
Plan, Section and Elevation.the bread and butter of architecture. Why would anyone want to work on these three kinds views of a project and not find that the elements (doors, windows, walls, etc) they present don't match? If I create an enlarged plan shouldn't it match the plan it was generated from, but have greater detail? Shouldn't the windows called out in a plan match those called out in an elevation?
Construction Business Owner
AUGUST 31, 2015
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Construction Equipment
SEPTEMBER 3, 2015
Sunbelt Rentals revenues totaled $820.8 million in the first quarter of 2015, compared to $634.4 million in the first quarter of 2014, a 28.6 percent increase. Physical utilization for the first quarter was 72 percent, the same as last year, although in July it was two percent higher than in the same month last year. Rental revenue growth was the result of higher used equipment sales than last year in response to a downturn in oil and gas markets, according to Ashtead CEO Geoff Drabble.
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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!
Contractor Magazine
SEPTEMBER 3, 2015
At the truck wash. Washing big rigs — from over-the-highway trucks to off-road energy industry trucks — is infinitely more involved than washing cars. They’re bigger, sure, but they also come in a wide variety of sizes and shapes. read more.
Construction Marketing Ideas
SEPTEMBER 4, 2015
It is vital to be consistent in your marketing message — and your service delivery. Bernie Heer , quoted in Michael Jefffries’ blog , reminds AEC marketers of the importance of consistency — notably, if you are selling higher-end services which aren’t the lowest cost, you shouldn’t focus on price in your marketing. How you first attract a prospect has everything to do with how they respond to your sales message.
Construction Business Owner
SEPTEMBER 2, 2015
OSHA issued a proposed rule for a substance-specific standard on crystalline silica in September 2013, and for good reason. Respirable crystalline silica, which is 100 times smaller than an ordinary grain of sand, is associated with cutting, sawing, grinding, mixing, drilling and crushing stone, rock, concrete, brick, block, mortar and certain industrial sands.
Construction Equipment
SEPTEMBER 1, 2015
Caterpillar recently launched a “24/7” equipment-operator-monitoring service with the intent, says the company, “to provide customers the power to see, mitigate and manage the primary variable impacting their operations—the human factor.” According to Caterpillar, analysts at the new Fatigue Monitoring Center “correlate health and productivity data from operators and equipment to reveal the magnitude of conditions such as fatigue and distraction and their impact on operations.
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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!
Contractor Magazine
SEPTEMBER 3, 2015
The plumbing, HVAC and pipe fitting industries are known quantities. Water, air, gravity, hot, cold; solids, liquids and gases and the combinations and movements of all of them. There is nothing that technology can do to change the laws of physics. read more.
Construction Marketing Ideas
SEPTEMBER 3, 2015
TheMailwizz email management program operates from our server. I paid a one-time fee of $50.00 — updates are free. But the system’s limitations have set up a potentially costly business challenge. It’s a frustrating problem. I discovered a reliable, extremely inexpensive and amazingly effective program to manage the company’s email server requirements; a one-time $50 fee, plus an additional $20 (one time) for secure back-up capacity.
Green Industry Professionals
SEPTEMBER 2, 2015
Ruppert Landscape's 500 employees will transform the grounds of the Armed Forces Retirement Home as part of their 2015 Field Day.
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