The Constructor

APRIL 15, 2014

'Coarse Aggregate Properties affecting Mix Design Strength Maximum size of coarse aggregate: Maximum size of aggregate affects the workability and.

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FDR Safety

APRIL 15, 2014

'Does OSHA Understand its Own Machine and Equipment Guarding Directive? Journey to Risk Elimination. FDRsafety enhances recruiting services. Join Our Mailing List. Does OSHA Understand its Own Machine and Equipment Guarding Directive? By Jim Stanley and Mike Taubitz. Machine and equipment guarding by location or position is a topic the two of us have discussed many times in recent months.

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Green Building Law Update

APRIL 15, 2014

'The U.S. Office of Management and Budget is seeking comments, no later than May 12, 2014, on proposed revisions to Circular A-119, “Federal Participation in the Development and Use of Voluntary Consensus Standards and in Conformity Assessment Activities.” “Green Globes and LEED are voluntary, consensus based standards” according to Kevin Kampschroer, director of the office of federal high-performance green buildings at the U.S.

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Carol Hagen

APRIL 15, 2014

'Many Bluebeamers only have the CAD or Standard versions and these Revu clients don’t know what they’re missing. The Extreme version offers some real time-saving functions and can perform multiple processes in one step. The OCR (Optical Character Recognition) function can deskew and detect the orientation of your document while it converts image content to text.

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The Constructor

APRIL 15, 2014

'Manufactured Sand is a sand produced from crushing of granite stones in required grading to be used for construction purposes as a replacement for.

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Best Practices Construction Law

APRIL 18, 2014

'A number of families will be traveling this holiday weekend, and some are travel-savvy enough to check out travel websites like www.911.Virginia.org for real-time traffic information and identification of construction delays. When savvy contractors face delays on a project, they immediately take steps to provide notice, document, evaluate and plan for recovery from those delays.

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Safety Services Company

APRIL 17, 2014

'As we move through spring and temperatures start to rise in most of North America, it’s time to start thinking about avoiding heat stress. Although some parts of the country believe that the cold weather will never end, I assure you it will, and when it does the heat will be on. Heat-related illnesses range from a mild heat rash and cramping all the way to heat stroke, which is a life-threatening condition.

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The Constructor

APRIL 17, 2014

'Factors that affects the concrete mix design strengths are: Variables in Mix Design A. Water/cement ratio B. Cement content C. Relative proportion of.

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BD+C

APRIL 18, 2014

'New York-based Lee H. Skolnick Architecture + Design Partnership has been selected to design a new children’s museum in Sofia, Bulgaria—the first children’s museum in Eastern Europe. The museum, called MUZEIKO, will be located in a former college laboratory building in the Studentski-grad university precinct. A+A Architects will assist in the project, which is being planned by the America for Bulgaria Foundation.

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Digger Blog

APRIL 15, 2014

'Companies the size of Case generally have systems in place to ensure that publicity stills like this go through strict corporate vetting procedures. They must ensure that they send out the right corporate message and that all the appropriate health & safety protocals are being adhered to. Case has a slick marketing operation so this particularly image has probably been scientifically constructed to convey a very particular message.

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Construction Marketing Ideas

APRIL 13, 2014

'Social media (paid and free) has most support as effective marketing methods, but that could change depending on participation in this survey. It’s still early going, and the results are nowhere near large enough (or gathered in the correct manner) to assert scientific validity. Nevertheless, the early results of my survey of profitable supplements to word-of-mouth (referral) and repeat business for marketing effectiveness still give the highest vote tally to social media (free and paid).

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The Constructor

APRIL 18, 2014

'Structural Design Engineer play an important role not only in making a structure safe structurally, but also by ensuring that the site where the.

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Contractor Magazine

APRIL 18, 2014

'If you have the money to spend, why not spend it on the bathroom fixtures? read more.

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Digger Blog

APRIL 13, 2014

'The BI00C was fitted with a chain cutter (CST 965) developed by Benetti Macchine SpA, who are based in Carrara and specialise in supplying marble-cutting machines. They worked in close collaboration with the New Holland Construction Engineering division in Lecce, which has the capability to produce bespoke machines, based on requests from its customers, for niche sectors. 

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Construction Marketing Ideas

APRIL 14, 2014

'This CMO.com presentation, “Top 11 Marketing Trends for 2014″ contains some stuff you could predict, or might just take as obvious. However, item 10 may be worthy of some thought: More Maker Fairs And Meet-Ups. As consumers get overloaded and begin unplugging and masking their identities online, marketers will need to create more events and situations to give them a reason to interact with their brands in the real world.

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The Constructor

APRIL 14, 2014

'Manufactured sand is a substitute of river for construction purposes sand produced from hard granite stone by crushing. The crushed sand is of.

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Construction Equipment

APRIL 16, 2014

'OSHA has scheduled an informal public hearing to discuss the agency’s proposed rule to extend the compliance date for the crane operator certification requirement. The hearing will be held May 19, 2014 in Washington, D.C., and will also discuss the existing phase-in requirement that employers ensure their operators are qualified to operate equipment.

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BD+C

APRIL 15, 2014

'Editor''s note: We re-posted this article after a technical glitch prevented readers from viewing the original version. We apologize for the error. Body Image: read more.

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Construction Marketing Ideas

APRIL 12, 2014

'Our ongoing poll — which shows the importance of repeat and referral leads for AEC businesses and practices. This survey looks more closely into the other categories, for effectiveness. Undoubtedly, most architectural, engineering and construction businesses and practices attract most business through repeat clients and referrals (word-of-mouth).

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The Constructor

APRIL 18, 2014

'Besides being of compatible properties, repair materials for cement, concrete/mortar shall also be easy to apply and require no attention after the.

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Construction Equipment

APRIL 18, 2014

'Italian manufacturer OSA Demolition Equipment, working through its exclusive distribution partner, Cadeci International of Wellington, Fla., will enter the North American market in spring 2014.

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BD+C

APRIL 15, 2014

'Avoided energy use attributable to energy-efficiency investments undertaken since 1974 has resulted in a contribution outstripping the annual consumption of oil, natural gas, electricity, and coal, according to a report by the International Energy Agency , a global NGO. Body Image: read more.

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Revit OpEd

APRIL 14, 2014

'We can use Purge Unused on a family as well as a project, assuming Revit finds anything that it thinks can be purged. A family can inherit size from imported CAD data and nested families too. Importing and exploding a CAD source file will add object style sub-categories, line patterns, materials, fill patterns, text styles etc. There may not be any in the family right now but if you didn''t create the family from scratch yourself and know everything that it went through until you noticed its si

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Safety Services Company

APRIL 14, 2014

'Although it’s impossible to discern exactly what led to this overturned skid steer, an experienced operator can tell you that it can be easy to upset earthmoving equipment like this. Because of the weighted back end, if you go too fast uphill or backwards downhill, and have the bucket lifted high enough to raise the center of gravity, you can pop a wheelie or roll completely over.

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Digger Blog

APRIL 13, 2014

'The company also purchased seven JCB tracked excavators - one JS130, two JS160, three JS220 and a JS260 model - in the same deal. These will be used for earthmoving, demolition and general works by the Owen Pugh Contracts team. The two new JCB 457 wheeled loading shovels are operating at Marsden Quarry - on behalf of the Owen Pugh Aggregates division - loading quarried materials on to vehicles leaving the site.

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Natural Building

APRIL 16, 2014

'Chris Magwood’s Making Better Buildings is a comparative guide to sustainable construction for homeowners and contractors. It is also a masterpiece of research and experience folded into an encyclopedic reference book for anyone interested in sustainable approaches to our built environment. Clearly a labor of love and a commitment to improving our situation on Earth, this book will have enduring value.

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PSMJ Resources

APRIL 17, 2014

'By David Lecours, LecoursDesign (This post is an excerpt from a longer post that originally appeared on LecoursDesign on March 19, 2014.) If you have this nag­ging sense that your AEC firm web­site could be more than an online brochure, you’re right. The mod­ern web­site doesn’t sit idle wait­ing for the arrival of a vis­i­tor to sim­ply con­firm what they’ve already heard about your firm.

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Contractor Magazine

APRIL 17, 2014

'When the Service Roundtable held its International Roundtable in Las Vegas, one of the social events was held at the Stratosphere hotel and casino. read more.

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