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9 Tips to Help Getting Your Outdoor Power Equipment Ready for Winter Storage

Green Industry Professionals

OPEI offers tips to help home and business owners prepare for upcoming seasonal changes

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When to choose VR to train heavy equipment operators

Construction Dive

While virtual reality simulators can attract younger workers to the industry and get them up to speed faster, they can’t completely replace real world training situations, some experts say.

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10 Best Practices for Construction Claims

Construction Business Owner

Whether you are sued or receive a threatening or demanding letter criticizing your work, it’s hard not to take it personally. While the natural reaction is to immediately respond in one way or another, what you really need to do is take a deep breath, step back and evaluate the situation objectively.

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Table Form Shuttering- Types, Components, and Advantages

The Constructor

Table Form shuttering is a kind of shuttering specializing in floor concreting and it is widely used in high building and skyscraper, multilayer.

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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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Leveraging Technology to Enhance Quality Control into Your Construction Process

Viewpoint Construction Technology

As contractors face heightened scrutiny around building processes, many are turning to technology to improve quality control measures.

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Your Fleet: A Source of Savings

Construction Business Owner

Equipment operating costs can vary greatly due to a variety of factors, including the severity of the application, how often the equipment is used and the amount of respect with which the operator treats the equipment. One critical owning/operating cost well within the control of the company—how well the equipment is maintained—can be the difference in operating costs of just under $1 per service hour or more than $7 per service hour. .

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Flexible or Bendable Concrete – Composition and Uses

The Constructor

A flexible or bendable concrete is an engineered cementitious composite (ECC) that exhibits the property of ductile material unlike the brittle.

Concrete 178
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Trick or Treat? Preventing 5 Common Construction Horror Stories

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Was is your worst fear as a contractor? Here are some top contractor fears and how to prevent them.

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Improving the Physical Environment, One LEAN Construction Project At a Time

Job Order Contracting

Improving the physical environment, without the high levels of waste typically associated with construction planning, procurement, and project delivery, can be consistently accomplished with the application of LEAN processes. Lean construction tools and services specifically integrate people, workflows, information, and technology. Tools and services are readily available to enable any organization to consistently deliver quality repair, renovation, and new construction projects on-time and on-b

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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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How to Prepare for an Economic Downturn & Protect Your Company's Future

Construction Business Owner

Whether the next downturn is a depression, recession or simple market correction, there will be ripples experienced across all industries, but perhaps none more than construction. It shouldn’t take an economic correction to prompt businesses to shape up. Financial and workforce management, market differentiation and process adherence are surefire ways to absorb any impact and maintain a healthy business.

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What is Reinforced Concrete? Uses, Benefits, and advantages

The Constructor

Reinforced concrete is a combination of traditional cement concrete with reinforcements (steel bar). This combination is made to use the compressive.

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Streamlining Construction Submittals

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Contractors are modernizing their construction submittal processes through integrated technology.

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Definition of Job Order Contracting

Job Order Contracting

Job Order Contracting, JOC, isn’t simply a procurement method for construction services. JOC is a LEAN Construction Planning, Procurement and Project Delivery Method. JOC has evolved to enable the consistent delivery of quality repair, renovation, maintenance, sustainability, and new construction projects on-time, and on-budget. Furthermore, these projects are delivered to the benefit of ALL participants and shareholders.

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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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The Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program

Construction Business Owner

Most DBE programs, though implemented by the states via “uniform certification programs,” are based on the USDOT’s DBE regulations. To qualify as a DBE, the firm must be at least 51% “owned” and “controlled” by one or more “socially” and “economically” disadvantaged individuals. Details of qualification here. .

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Concrete Waterproofing- Types, Steps, and Advantages

The Constructor

Concrete waterproofing is the application of impervious material layer on concrete which prevents water from penetrating and making the structure.

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Women construction leaders discuss building their careers, demolishing glass ceilings

Construction Dive

Top female executives in the industry at an event last week stressed that women shouldn't be afraid to stand out and embrace their unique skills in a field in which "men and women are different and that’s OK.

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BEST VALUE & COMPLIANT Construction Planning, Procurement, And Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

BEST VALUE & COMPLIANT Construction Planning, Procurement, And Project Delivery can be deployed and managed today using a robust suite LEAN tools and services. The easiest way to describe LEAN and BEST VALUE construction, is to note what it is not. It is not design-bid-build, design-build, CM@R, LastPlanner(TM), black belt, kaizen, et al. LEAN, BEST VALUE construction, planning, procurement, and project delivery is embodied with collaborative processes and frameworks such as integrated proje

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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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Could mass timber be a game changer for stadium design?

BD+C

“I wouldn’t take credit for paving the way, but we pushed the limits,” says Steve Turner, President of Western Wood Structures, who’s been working with large-scale wood structures since the mid 1970s. The Tualatin, Ore.-based firm has a long and storied history as the recordsetting design and fabrication company behind the world’s biggest timber arena domes.

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Bollards- Types, Materials, Installation, and Applications

The Constructor

A bollard is a short post used to create a protective or architectural perimeter. They come in a wide variety of shapes and styles to accentuate or.

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DOL apprenticeship plan: experts argue pros, cons

Construction Dive

Construction Dive breaks down the controversy, which centers on whether the industry should be exempt from a proposed provision that paves the way for standard-setting training programs.

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BIM and VDC for construction: What you should know

Lets Build

What is BIM and VDC? Technology is having a huge impact on the construction industry, primarily bringing about positive changes. The use of software, hardware, and various digital tools is making the sector more efficient, although there is still a lot of work to be done on bringing everybody on the journey. As the saying.

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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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Ponce Paradise wants to become Puerto Rico’s premiere destination

BD+C

Ponce Paradise, a 900-acre resort, healthcare village, and marina in the city for Ponce, Puerto Rico, is expected to attract hundreds of millions of dollars in total investment and become Puerto Rico’s premiere destination when it completes.

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10+ Uses of Concrete in Civil Engineering

The Constructor

Concrete is one of the most frequently used building materials worldwide.

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Predictive AI construction group attracts more leading firms, including Skanska

Construction Dive

The Predictive Analytics Strategic Council includes leaders from Suffolk, Mortenson and Barton Malow working collaboratively to predict when and where safety hazards will occur.

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Developing Mechanical HVAC Tech Team Skills

Contractor Magazine

Training your mechanical HVAC team is an ongoing process, one that at its best involves senior technicians, associations, vendors and distributorships.

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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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General Equipment & Supplies Invests in Technology, Technicians for Fleet Services

Construction Equipment

Steve Stafki wants to “identify the sweet spot with [machine] data to then tell the customer, ‘Here’s where you should swap out your machine.

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Difference between Flexible Concrete and Normal Concrete

The Constructor

Flexible or bendable concrete gains ductility property while normal concrete shows the brittle property. This difference of flexible concrete from.

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NTSB determines probable cause for deadly FIU bridge collapse

Construction Dive

The board determined that FIGG's design had underestimated demand on the bridge structure, overestimated its capacity and failed to include redundancies that could have prevented the collapse. An independent engineering review failed to catch the errors.