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Contractor Website Best Practices

Construction Marketing

An excellent website is no longer an option for any type of construction, remodeling, or trade contracting firm. Fact is, website excellence is now a requirement for business success. The good news is achieving website excellence is attainable for even small construction firms, along with the broader requirement of implementing a complete digital marketing program that drives sales leads, and ultimately new customer acquisition.

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New report assesses where opportunities could lie in construction technology

BD+C

Between 2013 and February 2018, cumulative investment in construction technology totaled $18 billion, or double the amount invested during the previous five years.

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How Hensel Phelps maximizes its use of drones

Construction Dive

The construction giant spent up to $20,000 per manned helicopter flight to capture aerial video of projects before tapping unmanned aerial vehicles to complete the same tasks and more at a fraction of the cost.

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Types of Drawings used in Building Construction

The Constructor

Different types of drawings is used in construction such as architectural drawings, structural, electrical, plumbing and finishing drawings. These.

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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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Can Lean Manufacturing Principles Improve Construction?

Viewpoint Construction Technology

If construction jobsites have one thing in common, it’s that they’re all different. This variation — in project size, scope, type, materials, timelines, etc. — makes a philosophy like lean manufacturing seem unsuited to the construction industry. Lean, an approach to manufacturing first developed by Toyota , focuses on streamlining and standardizing processes by reducing waste, improving flow and designing what you do based on what’s valuable to end customers.

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The Perils of Uninsured & Underinsured Motorist Coverage

Construction Business Owner

The auto line of business is the loss leader for most, if not all, insurance carriers. Underwriters are scrutinizing companies’ hiring practices, fleet safety and maintenance programs and, most importantly, loss history. History has a way of repeating itself. An often overlooked coverage detail/limit within an auto policy is uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage.

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What is Gabion? Its Types, Applications, and Advantages

The Constructor

What is gabion? Gabion is a welded wire cage or box filled with materials such as stone, concrete, sand, or soil. So, gabion is a partially flexible.

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Breaking Down Silos for Better Construction Collaboration

Viewpoint Construction Technology

The dreaded silo. Almost all growing businesses struggle with silos. People tend to separate themselves by department or function and then don’t do a great job collaborating with people in other parts of the business to resolve issues, optimize processes and improve efficiency and productivity. This lack of effective communication and collaboration can be the downfall of a business, especially in the construction industry, where tight deadlines and razor-thin profit margins rule the day.

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Risk management plan in construction – A practical guide

Lets Build

There is never a time when a construction company is not going to take at least a little risk with their projects. In that sense, it is no exaggeration to claim that an exhaustive risk management plan is a ‘must have’ in your construction operations. Nevertheless, putting together a functional risk management plan isn’t always.

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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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Roof Inspection Checklists

Job Order Contracting

Roof Inspection Checklists can be automated and linked to detailed cost models for budgeting and project estimation. Locally researched cost data is optimal for this purpose versus the use of “national average” reference cost databases and associated location factors. Additionally, the use of proven, robust, LEAN construction delivery methods, can assure consistent, on-demand, project delivery with on-time, on-budget, and satisfaction for all all participants and stakeholders.

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Retaining Wall Types, Materials, Economy, and Applications

The Constructor

What is a retaining wall? Retaining wall is a structure that are designed and constructed to withstand lateral pressure of soil or hold back soil.

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Technology can ease the labor shortage, survey says

Construction Dive

Not only can technology increase productivity and profitability, it also can attract talent and help retain younger workers, a recent Associated General Contractors of America and Autodesk report showed.

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Under-development solar panels snap together and turn waste heat into hot water

BD+C

The more sunlight solar panels receive, the hotter they get. The hotter they get, the more inefficient they become at converting energy into electricity. A new modular solar panel currently under development at Brunel University London solves this issue by using heat pipes to gather this excess heat and use it to produce a building’s hot water.

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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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Understanding Job Order Contracting & Efficient LEAN Facilities Repair, Renovation, and Construction

Job Order Contracting

It’s important to recognize that Job Order Contracting (JOC) is not simply a way to speed projects through procurement “red tape” In order to obtain the major benefits of JOC* the following are required. Change management – Moving from traditional ad hoc day to day practices to robust workflows based upon proven LEAN processes. Owner leadership and competency – JOC is a collaborative process, however, owners provide leadership.

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Concrete Grade Beam Construction Process

The Constructor

What is concrete grade beam? Grade beams are commonly concrete beams which are designed to act as horizontal ties between footings or pile caps. They.

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Tech Toys: Real physics guide dirt-moving simulator, cranes become autonomous and more

Construction Dive

EarthCam enhanced its high-resolution live jobsite streaming and time-lapse offerings and IntSite is testing its artificial intelligence for crane operations in the field amid a round of venture capital backing.

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Can Lean Manufacturing Principles Improve Construction?

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Applying Lean to Unpredictable Construction Jobsites.

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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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Facilities Electrical Equipment Maintenance Test Frequency

Job Order Contracting

Facilities Electrical Equipment Maintenance Test Frequency. The 2011 American National Standards Institute / International Electrical Testing Association (NETA) Maintenance Testing Specifications ANSI/NETA MTS-2011 has been used as the guide for all Electrical Testing procedures. By reference, the ANSI/NETA MTS-2011 requirements for Frequency of Maintenance Tests have been included for the performance of maintenance on all electrical systems.

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Grade Beam Construction Process

The Constructor

What is grade beam? Grade beams are commonly concrete beams which are designed to act as horizontal ties between footings or pile caps. They should.

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Business Toolbox: How to enact a more 'quality' jobsite quality control program

Construction Dive

The benefits of a written quality control program are hard to deny, said Western Specialty Contractors' Eric Olson, but like most other programs, a written policy is only as good as the enforcement behind it.

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Chicago becomes seventh city in the world to achieve LEED for Cities Platinum certification

BD+C

Last September, Washington, D.C. became the first LEED Platinum city in the world. Now, almost exactly one year later, the U.S. Green Building Council has just named the world’s seventh LEED Platinum city: Chicago.

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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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Job Order Contracting Software

Job Order Contracting

Job Order Contracting Software and more! Building in Cloud (BiC) and the 4BT-PE/4BT-CE modules support LEAN COLLABORATIVE OpenJOC(TM) Job Order Contract via Software as a Service (SaaS). Owners and builders simply need a broadband Internet connection, a current web browser, and appropriate security settings to enable use of all system capabilities.

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Retaining Wall Types, Materials, Economy, and Applications

The Constructor

What is a retaining wall? Retaining wall is a structure that are designed and constructed to withstand lateral pressure of soil or hold back soil.

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Breaking Down Silos for Better Construction Collaboration

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Are Your Processes Dividing People?

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Saltwater incursion into Miami’s aquifer may make city uninhabitable later this century

BD+C

The Miami metro region faces crises due to rising sea levels that threaten to make the area uninhabitable. While the danger of flooding has been widely documented, the threat to the region’s drinking water supply has been less chronicled. In fact, salt water incursion into the region’s aquifer could be what threatens Miami’s viability for human habitation before the doomsday scenario of inundation of the land by the sea.

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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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Empowering Owners with On-Demand Quality, On-Time, On-Budget Facilities Repair, Renovation, & Construction

Job Order Contracting

Empowering Owners with On-Demand Quality, On-Time, On-Budget Facilities Repair, Renovation, & Construction is what we do each and every day. LEAN construction delivery, specifically the OpenJOC(TM) Job Order Contracting Solution measurably repair, renovation, and construction outcomes. Whether your responsible for a facilities portfolio in higher education, secondary education, federal/state/county/local government, healthcare, or transportation, you can assure significantly better outcome

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What is Gabion? Its Types, Applications, and Advantages

The Constructor

What is gabion? Gabion is a welded wire cage or box that filled with desired materials such as stone, concrete, sand, or soil. So, it is a partially.

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Industry petitions OSHA to establish heat standard

Construction Dive

More than 130 organizations asked the agency to establish protection rules for workers exposed to heat, the leading weather-related killer in the U.S.

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