Construction Business Owner

APRIL 1, 2014

'Dewatering plays a critical role in the success and safety of most jobsites and can pose a variety of challenges, which vary by jobsite. Some of these challenges include selecting the proper pump and accessories for the application, deciding where to discharge the water, managing jobsite water with limited space and doing so while abiding by relevant regulations such as those set by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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The Constructor

MARCH 31, 2014

'Applications of Nanotechnology In Construction Nano-Particles used with building materials are currently used for producing durable, anti-bacterial, Concrete Technology Construction Nano-Technology'

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Constructonomics

APRIL 4, 2014

'More and more people are living in cities, with new cities springing up and existing cities becoming home to larger and larger populations. We’re also going through a period of rapid climate change, and the effects of this are felt particularly keenly in densely populated areas like London. Cities like London need to develop sustainable and greener ways to grow, and to make use of the space that they already have, rather than encroaching on the Green Belt.

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Green Building Law Update

APRIL 1, 2014

'The U.S. Green Building Council is about to announce that there are more than 3 Billion square feet of LEED certified commercial and institutional building. Three Billion! That is a three followed by nine zeros or three thousand millions. In a sense of scale, the Earth is only 4.67 Billion years old. The distance to the moon and back is less than 3 Billion feet (actually 2.66 Billion feet at apogee).

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BD+C

APRIL 3, 2014

'Building Design+Construction is pleased to introduce our “40 Under 40” Class of 2014. They join 320 previous recipients of the honor, dating from 2006. These emerging AEC leaders range in age from 31 to 39 (as of December 31, 2013), with a median age of 36.

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BIM & Beam

MARCH 31, 2014

'A new Structural Model eXchange (SMX) solution has been implemented to enable a bi-directional exchange between Autodesk® Revit® 2015 software and Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis Professional 2015. The SMX feature addresses several limitations of the former link, such as the systematic modification of the Revit model during the export for example.

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Constructonomics

APRIL 3, 2014

'Infographic by Viewpoint.

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BD+C

APRIL 2, 2014

'One of the nation’s newest and most premier energy research facilities has been named R&D Magazine ’s 2014 Laboratory of the Year. Designed and built by SmithGroupJJR and JE Dunn Construction, the $135 million Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF) is located at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado.

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The Constructor

APRIL 3, 2014

'Concrete structure damages, defects and its prevention Concrete structures get damaged or defective during its lifetime. The causes for such damages.

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Construction Equipment

APRIL 2, 2014

'Total construction spending rose 0.1 percent in February, to $946 billion, from the revised January total, according to analysis of federal data by the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC). AGC officials noted that the figures would have been stronger if not for declines in public sector construction and infrastructure investments.

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Revit OpEd

APRIL 4, 2014

'Reading through the AUGIWorld issue for April I saw two new feature items that haven''t been published or acknowledged formally by Autodesk yet. First is a change to the formula options and syntax for Logarithm. Here''s what it looked like in Revit 2014 and how Revit interpreted/applied the formula to a value. Here''s what it looks like in 2015. Note the new syntax to express a natural logarithm with ln(x), shown for Value3.

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BD+C

APRIL 4, 2014

'White roofs can be more effective at reducing the urban heat-island effect than darker roofs and roofs covered with plants, according to a report by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. White roofs also cost less. The report, Economic Comparison of White, Green, and Black Flat Roofs In the United States ,says that white roofs are three times more effective than green roofs at “cooling the globe.

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The Constructor

APRIL 2, 2014

'Tunnel Form Construction Technique was invented over 50 years ago. The use of tunnel-form produces high quality monolithic structures. It eliminates.

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Construction Equipment

MARCH 31, 2014

'Construction firms added jobs in 37 states over the past 12 months and in 30 states between January and February according to an analysis of federal data by the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC).

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Revit OpEd

MARCH 31, 2014

'Revit 2015 won''t be as compliant as it used to be when you attempt to delete elements that have been pinned, and that is good! An exception to this is when you pin a hosted family like a door for example. If you pin a door and delete the host wall Revit will go right ahead and delete the door too. Not even a warning that the door was pinned. Face-Based families like light fixtures don''t suffer the same fate as element based (wall, floor, ceiling, or roof) families.

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BD+C

APRIL 2, 2014

'Autodesk has announced the Autodesk 2015 software portfolio of design, engineering, and construction solutions to help drive a global transformation to Building Information Modeling (BIM). The 2015 Suites for buildings, civil infrastructure, and oil & gas projects offer hundreds of improvements and new capabilities for Autodesk Building Design Suite, Autodesk Infrastructure Design Suite and Autodesk Plant Design Suite.

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The Constructor

MARCH 29, 2014

'It is reported that in USA fire kills more people each year than all other natural disasters combined including floods, cyclones and earthquake. The.

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Construction Equipment

APRIL 4, 2014

'Construction employers added 19,000 workers to payrolls in March, bringing industry employment to the highest level since June 2009, while the industry''s unemployment rate dropped to the lowest March level in seven years, according to an analysis of new government data by the Associated General Contractors of America. Association officials warned that the pool of available workers is declining rapidly, raising the prospects for significant labor shortages if demand continues to expand.

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Safety Services Company

APRIL 4, 2014

'The increasing diversity in today’s workplace is putting more and more focus on issues regarding language and literacy. A constant concern for supervisors and managers is determining whether their safety training for non-English speaking employees is adequate. In other words, do the workers really understand? In April 2010, OSHA released a memorandum requiring all employers to offer OSHA training in a language that all employees understand.

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BD+C

MARCH 31, 2014

'Directly following Hurricane Sandy in October 2012, Plaza Construction was asked to start working on the development of a flood prevention solution for 55 Water Street, one of New York City’s largest office structures with 54 stories and 3.8 million square feet located in the financial district. Hurricane Sandy was the second-costliest storm in U.S. read more.

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Revit OpEd

APRIL 3, 2014

'Daniel Stine contributed a feature review on AECbytes the other day. Be sure to check it out as well. His comments are geared toward getting better acquainted during implementation of the new features. Read his Article There.

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Construction Equipment

APRIL 4, 2014

'The next CONEXPO-CON/AGG international exposition will be held March 7-11, 2017 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas.

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Help Everybody Everyday

MARCH 30, 2014

'Are you struggling to get into or improve your business development? Well, I reached out to Kelly Riggs, the author of “Quit Whining and Start Selling.” I asked him to walk us through a scenario illustrating how marketers can get started with business development. Along the way, Kelly dispels some business development myths, alleviates common fears, and walks us through the process.

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BD+C

APRIL 4, 2014

'The Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District that serves the Cleveland area will allocate $650,000 of state funds for a grant program to pay private developers to use green elements for managing increased stormwater runoff from a road project. The sewer board also allocated $250,000 to build green infrastructure to help absorb rainwater throughout its area. read more.

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Revit OpEd

APRIL 2, 2014

'Should you upgrade? Yes! Not enthusiastic about the new features in 2015? I''m not happy with the scope of what''s new in 2015 either but when it becomes available I''ll still install it and use it for the very next project and/or upgrade ongoing work too. I''ll be happy to do so. I''ve never regretted installing and using a new release no matter how ambivalent I''ve been about how well specific changes met my needs or client''s needs.

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Construction Equipment

APRIL 2, 2014

'OSHA will issue a final rule to improve workplace safety and health for workers performing electric power generation, transmission and distribution work. The 40-year-old construction standard will be revised to make it more consistent with the corresponding general industry standard and is also making some revisions to the construction and general industry requirements.

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Contractor Magazine

APRIL 1, 2014

'A new McKinsey & Co. article, "The disruptive potential of solar power," points out that global solar installations have continued to increase by 50% a year, even while the technology is getting hit hard by cheap natural gas, an end of subsidies from governments, the financial crisis, and the flood of cheap photovoltaic panels from China that bankrupted a number of panel manufacturers.

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Safety Services Company

APRIL 1, 2014

'We can see the significant load is so large that the center of gravity is so far away from the forklift. Because the load is too much for this forklift the operator has compensated by adding extra weights to the back of the forklift, offsetting them to counterbalance the load and move the truck’s center of gravity backward. But the extra weights are unsecured, creating a precarious situation if the truck has to go up or down hill, the load has to be lifted, or something fails on the truck.

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