Construction Business Owner

AUGUST 28, 2013

'With the summer construction season winding down, now is an ideal time to consider adding a crawler excavator to your fleet. Selecting an excavator model, however, is just the first step. It is important to calculate the total cost of ownership on your asset. Many owners may think they have a handle on cost of ownership, only to find that incomplete calculations have caused their profits to fall shorter than expected.

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FDR Safety

AUGUST 29, 2013

'Our guest blogger today is Dan Zarletti, who recently joined FDRsafety as a senior advisor specializing in construction safety, scaffolding and systems safety management. For more than four decades, safety experts have tried and tested numerous ways to create a workplace culture that strives for zero accidents while improving safety equipment and working conditions.

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Help Everybody Everyday

AUGUST 27, 2013

'There’s a lot of advice on how to get traffic to your website. But how do you know whether or not your firm’s website gets enough? You could easily spend $30,000 or even $100,000 on a flashy new website. But if not enough people see it, is all that money really worth it? Nobody gives you any guidance on this subject and all your contemporaries claim they get thousands or millions of hits per month (which is a meaningless statistic ).

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Contractor Magazine

AUGUST 29, 2013

'Green training leads to saving water, energy and dollars. If you are a plumber, chances are you know how important water conservation is to the trade. Green Plumbers USA accredits Green Plumbers that go through its 32-hour accreditation in environmental and technical topics, and when finished with this program, he or she will have expertise in home water-efficient products, heating and cooling appliances, hot water heating, solar hot water and water conservation. read more.

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Construction Business Owner

AUGUST 28, 2013

'If you were to search crane-related headlines for the month of July 2013, you would find the following among the results: “Crawler Crane Overturns”. “Crane Caught on Fire”. “Crane Overturns at Marina”. “Crane Hit by Lightning”. “Crane Operator Burnt”. “Crane Rolls down Embankment”. “Crane Line Hits Power Line”.

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Construction Equipment

AUGUST 29, 2013

'Caterpillar introduced Speak Up!/Listen Up! for Construction, a new safety training tool customized for the construction industry and developed in collaboration with 16 of the world''s leading contractors including Atkinson Construction, Bechtel Corp. and Kiewit Corp. The training materials are designed to foster safe work environments by helping employees overcome the anxiety that can be associated with giving or receiving safety-related feedback.

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Contractor Magazine

AUGUST 29, 2013

'INDIANAPOLIS — Some place, somewhere in the United States is experiencing drought conditions today. It’s become a constant part of life in America. Plumbing manufacturers have been under pressure from the Environmental Protection Agency to keep reducing the amount of water used by plumbing fixtures, and much work remains to retrofit old, water-hogging plumbing fixtures. read more.

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Construction Business Owner

AUGUST 28, 2013

'In the recent Tax Court memo Kurek v. Commissioner, the Tax Court explains that businesses relying on the independent contractor designation—namely, construction companies—are going to receive additional scrutiny from the IRS. Concerns over the collection of payroll taxes and the ability to avoid providing benefits have increased the IRS’s weariness about the designation, especially in light of the Affordable Care Act of 2010.

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BD+C

AUGUST 28, 2013

'Real estate professionals from Crate and Barrel, Jones Lang LaSalle, Baxter, and Advocate Healthcare are among the building owner representatives attending and speaking at Building Design+Construction ''s new conference and expo, BUILDING Chicago , September 9-11. More than half of the 65+ continuing education sessions offered at the show will include a building owner representative, who will offer their unique perspective on current trends and projects. read more.

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BIM & Beam

AUGUST 29, 2013

'CSC, has released a new version of Integrator, its market leading Structural BIM integration software for synchronising code-compliant models produced in CSC’s building design software, Fastrak and Orion, with Autodesk ® Revit ®. Now fully compatible with Autodesk ® Revit ® 2014, structural engineers and technicians have even greater control during the integration process.

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Contractor Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2013

'Small business owners all over the world have finally started to embrace social media as a viable tool to attract customers to their business. Be it the local florist or used car lot, chances are any business you interact with has a presence online, and has made efforts to interact with new and existing customers via social media. If you have a Facebook or Twitter account, you have seen the growth of popularity in marketing businesses via paid or viral ads and postings. read more.

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Construction Business Owner

AUGUST 28, 2013

'Here are a few accidents that might cause you to think about your safety compliance if your construction company works with renewable energy: 2008 – A solar technician was electrocuted when the solar panel metal railings he was carrying came into contact with overhead utility lines. 2009 – A solar installer was carrying panels on a roof when he crashed through a skylight and plunged 40 feet.

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BD+C

AUGUST 26, 2013

'BD+C ''s roundup of the top construction market news for the week of August 18 includes the latest architecture billings index from AIA and a BOMA study on the nation''s most and least expensive commercial real estate markets. read more.

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Construction Equipment

AUGUST 28, 2013

'Trimble has established a new SITECH Technology Dealer, SITECH Western States, for Idaho, Eastern Oregon, Eastern Washington and Western Montana. SITECH Technology Dealers represent Trimble and Caterpillar machine control systems for fleets of heavy equipment regardless of machine brand, along with Trimble’s portfolio of Connected Site solutions—site positioning systems, construction asset management services, software, and wireless and Internet-based site communications infrastructure.

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Contractor Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2013

'National Tradesmen Day seeks to close skills gap by elevating skilled trades and thanking America’s tradesmen. HUNTERSVILLE, N.C.— America has a problem on its hands — one caused by a shortage of people willing to work with their hands. Manpower’s 2013 talent shortage survey reports that for the fourth consecutive year, skilled trades are the most difficult jobs to fill in the United States.

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Construction Business Owner

AUGUST 29, 2013

'ALEXANDRIA, Va. (August 29, 2013) — The American Subcontractors Association decried a rule proposed by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulating the use of crystalline silica on construction projects, as “confusing and burdensome without meeting the shared goal of improved worker safety and health.”. .

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BD+C

AUGUST 26, 2013

'An upgraded locker room, expanded weight room, and updated dining room with an outdoor patio greeted the Chicago Bears when they arrived at Halas Hall for practice this month. The improvements are part of a major expansion and renovation of the Bears’ headquarters in Lake Forest, Ill., completed by Mortenson Construction in less than seven months, the time between National Football League seasons.

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Building Information Management

AUGUST 30, 2013

'The following is from a Master’s thesis prepared by James Murray as part of the MSc individual project 2012/13, via: [link] – [link] - Premier cost estimating and efficient project delivery software supporting JOC, SABER, IDIQ, SATOC, MATOC, MACC, POCA, BOA … and featuring integrated contract, project, document management, visual estimating/quanity take-off.

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Contractor Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2013

'By quitting all of the things that hurt him and sticking with the advice of people like Matt Michel and David Heimer at the Service Round Table and by following the dictates of flat rate guru Frank Blau, Ed became a successful contractor. As I See It.

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Construction Business Owner

AUGUST 28, 2013

'Most construction fleets have a mix of vehicles, equipment and other assets that are overworked and continually on the move. GPS fleet- and asset-tracking software allows you to monitor asset location and fleet health and extend vehicle, asset and equipment life. Monitor Information in Real Time.

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BD+C

AUGUST 28, 2013

'There has been a strong push by government officials for businesses to hire veterans. Some businesses are pushing back against proposed rules requiring federal contractors to step up their hiring of returning military service personnel. Associated General Contractors says that complying with the new financial and administrative requirements for hiring veterans would cost employers $11,333 per office location, 25 times higher than a Department of Labor estimate. read more.

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Construction Equipment

AUGUST 29, 2013

'Bomag Americas Inc. is ceasing manufacturing operations in Kewanee, Ill., by the end of 2014 and relocating its business to a yet to be determined location in the southern United States. The products that are currently manufactured in Kewanee will either be relocated and/or replaced with market-accepted products manufactured in other existing BOMAG facilities located in Oklahoma, Germany or China.

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Safety Services Company

AUGUST 30, 2013

'WorkSafeBC is requesting stakeholder feedback on the proposed changes to the B.C. Occupational Exposure Limits (OEL) for twelve substances, based on the new or revised 2012 American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) Threshold Limit Values (TLV), as well as the TLVs for four other substances from prior years. A TLV is an airborne concentration of a chemical substance where nearly all workers are believed to experience no adverse health effects over a working lifetime.

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Construction Business Owner

AUGUST 28, 2013

'Could you help baseball players become better hitters if you didn’t know their batting averages? Of course not. Then how can you run a construction project efficiently without a scorecard displaying your job costs?

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BD+C

AUGUST 30, 2013

'As a growing number of healthcare institutions become more customer-focused, post-occupancy evaluations (POE) are playing a bigger role in new construction and renovation projects. Advocate Health Care is among the healthcare organizations to institute a detailed post-occupancy assessment process for its projects. read more.

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Contractor Magazine

AUGUST 29, 2013

'Home service experts team up with environmental specialist Kay McKeen from SCARCE to offer simple tips for improving indoor air quality. Air.Water.Energy., the new Air Conditioning & Heating Company, is planning a complimentary lunch for area homeowners and business owners on Thursday, Oct. 3 in honor of the company’s 3rd annual Healthy Home Month according to Ray Grimm, company CEO. read more.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

AUGUST 27, 2013

'Posted by Heidi Schwartz. The illustration above shows how plants absorb CO2 from the atmosphere as part of the natural carbon cycle. During plant respiration and decomposition, the CO2 is released back into the atmosphere (left image). By using plant biomass as the source of our fuel cycle, the fuel created is considered carbon neutral when it is burned, as it only releases back into the atmosphere the same CO2 that was originally captured by the biomass (right image).

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Construction Business Owner

AUGUST 27, 2013

'BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (August 27, 2013) – Children’s of Alabama’s Benjamin Russell Hospital for Children expansion is the first healthcare facility in Alabama, and one of the first of its kind in the U.S., to gain LEED Gold status as a result of its design and use of sustainable, energy-efficient and environmentally responsible materials, the organization announced today. .

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