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How You Can Benefit from Getting to Know Your Customer

Construction Business Owner

Businesses of all makes and models are upping their game when it comes to making data-driven decisions. However, many contractors still whiff when it comes to making the right decisions about their customers. They may study their habits with the eloquence of a premier pitcher examining a lineup, but do they truly know the most important characteristics of their customers’ businesses?

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How to Overcome the Labor Shortage

Viewpoint Construction Technology

In Q3 of 2017, we announced that we had more than 500,000 daily users of our integrated software, working on thousands of projects worldwide. With these projects comes the need for skilled workers and project managers. However, even though construction projects are abundant, 60 percent of contractors are still finding it difficult to attract skilled workers.

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Factors Affecting Performance of Concrete During Fire

The Constructor

Concrete structures are exposed to fire and high temperature during life service which creates changes in concrete properties detrimentally causing.

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How BIM is empowering safety on site

Lets Build

In most cases, the discussion around Building Information Modeling (BIM) tends to focus on the potential efficiency and financial benefits that it may entail for the construction industry. Nevertheless, BIM can significantly contribute to the prevention of severe accidents on site, as well. Construction is one of the most hazardous.

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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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What to Consider Before Changing Law Firms

Construction Business Owner

Every construction business owner and executive’s plate is overflowing on a daily basis. That’s just the way it is. The last thing any of them need to add to their neverending to-do list is switch law firms. But every vendor is crucial to the company’s success. Sub-par performance is simply not acceptable, whether you’re talking about the company’s legal counsel, its accountant, IT consultant or the company responsible for cleaning the offices.

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Why Select Reinforced Concrete as Construction Material for a Structure?

The Constructor

Various factors for selection of reinforced concrete over other construction materials such as masonry, steel and timber such as properties and.

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This is the key to unlocking efficiency in construction

Lets Build

The construction industry is on a crucial path. Lack of transparency, fragmented communication and disappointingly high waste rates are only a few of the problems that construction is currently facing. Nevertheless, a significant change has started to be noticed. The reason behind this change is related to the use of.

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3 Tips for Pairing the Right Drill with the Right Job

Construction Business Owner

There is no cookie-cutter approach to selecting the right machine for a concrete drilling job. A number of factors come into play, including working conditions, drill weight, number of holes needed and more. With the following quick recommendations, you’ll soon be ready for concrete drilling with the right machine for the job. .

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Setting up a Job Order Contract Using Best Management Practices

Job Order Contracting

Setting up a Job Order Contract Using Best Management Practices involves a mix of strategic and operational steps including a gap analysis of current and planned outcomes. . Job Order Contracting is an alternative LEAN construction delivery method that targets repair, sustainment, restoration, modernization (SRM), and minor new construction projects (unless prohibited by local statue).

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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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Types of Construction Loads on Composite Slabs and Calculation

The Constructor

Composite slab is one of the most important of floor system that is used in the construction of multistory steel structures. Different types of loads.

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What you need to know about artificial intelligence

Lets Build

Human vs artificial intelligence Computers and artificial intelligence will support specialists and managers. Artificial intelligence can solve problems quite differently than a human individual. Even the developers of artificial intelligence do not entirely understand why the software has chosen a particular solution. Go is a board game from the Far.

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Revolutionizing school design with virtual reality

BD+C

As schools are working to develop new curricula to prepare students for a future dominated by technology, architects must also prepare education clients for a new future—one where they can explore their building designs in a fully immersive way.

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New International Standard To Reduce Mining Accidents

Construction Equipment

There’s no question that mining has been made safer over the years, but mines are still one of the most hazardous places to work. The causes can be numerous, from explosive dust and toxic gases to collapse of mine shafts, and the consequences severe, with thousands of fatalities each year.

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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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Common Sources of Errors in Structural Design

The Constructor

There are several sources of errors in structural design and drawings. It is important to specify and explain these sources to avoid such mistakes in.

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Amazon To Open Fourth Maryland Fulfillment Center

Business Facilities

Amazon.com, Inc. plans to open its fourth Maryland fulfillment facility in Baltimore’s Sparrows Point. More than 1,500 full-time positions will be created at the 855,000-square-food facility. The online retailer currently employs more than 5,000 associates at its sortation and fulfillment centers in Baltimore and fulfillment center in North East, MD.

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Austin’s first indoor shopping mall becomes Austin Community College’s new digital media center

BD+C

The first indoor shopping mall in Austin, Texas is currently undergoing a major renovation to become Austin Community College’s new digital media center. The redesigned building will contain space for art, music, dance drama, radio-television-film, photography, visual communication, computer programming, and gaming technology. . Rendering courtesy of Perkins+Will. .

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New ISO Standard Codes Mining Accidents

Construction Equipment

There’s no question that mining has been made safer over the years, but mines are still one of the most hazardous places to work. The causes can be numerous, from explosive dust and toxic gases to collapse of mine shafts, and the consequences severe, with thousands of fatalities each year.

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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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I want Project Topics related to Structural Dynamics

The Constructor

I’m studying structural engineering so I require project topics related to structural Dynamics Read More at I want Project Topics related to.

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Communicate with your Clients!!

Chianelli Estimating

Construction can be overwhelming and very scary to your clients.It’s a good thing when they ask questions and it’s in the your best interest to devote the necessary time to listen. Yes, listen!! We all have two ears and one mouth; there must be a reason for some higher authority using that design. By just talking things through you’ll be surprised what avenues it may lead to.

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No place like home: LA’s The Six provides permanent supportive housing for veterans

BD+C

For the homeless, the experience of obtaining social services, whether in a soup kitchen, shelter, or free clinic, often means having to encounter institutional buildings marked by dingy walls, stained floors, and annoying fluorescent lights. . “The message people get is, ‘We don’t really care very much about you,’” says Mike Alvidrez, CEO, Skid Row Housing Trust, Los Angeles.

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Drones map underground mines deemed dangerous to humans

Construction Equipment

A trial at a gold mine in Western Australia is testing how autonomous drones can be used to map underground mines, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The drones use a laser-guidance system similar to those employeed in autonomous cars, the paper reports. Watch the WSJ.com video below. .

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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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Difference between OPC and PPC Cements and Which is Best?

The Constructor

What is the difference between Ordinary Portland cement and Pozzolana Portland Cement? Which one is best for concrete works? Read More at.

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Why Opportunities Pass You By (And What To Do)

Help Everybody Everyday

“If only I had,” is the most devastating phrase in the English language. We all carry some degree of regret in our hearts. One of the most common traits I see in successful people is that they recognize and capitalize on opportunities. More importantly, they don’t shy away from opportunities that challenge their thinking or make them uncomfortable.

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Three VR + AR innovations to watch

BD+C

. . Is your design catching eyes in the right places? New VR heat map technology delivers a detailed map of where viewers are paying attention in created VR experiences. Photo: Yulio Technologies. .

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Update: EPA Proposes Change in Glider Kit Emission Rule

Construction Equipment

The Environmental Protection Agency has released text of its proposal to change the way glider kits - those truck bodies that are sold as incomplete trucks which will later be fitted with either new or used engines, transmissions, and other components - are viewed regarding the GHG Phase 2 emission standard put in place by the Obama administration.

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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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Shrinkage reinforcement direction and percentage in wing walls

The Constructor

What should be the quantity of reinforcement in percentage and its direction in wing walls? Read More at Shrinkage reinforcement direction and.

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Snapshots: 60 Seconds With Terry Gill, Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development

Business Facilities

By the BF Staff. From the September/October 2017 Issue. BF: Braidy Industries announced earlier this year that it will build a $1.3-billion aluminum rolling mill in Greenup County, creating 550 jobs. What is your strategy to keep the momentum going for an economic revival in the eastern part of Kentucky? Terry Gill, Secretary, Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development.

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Design isn’t enough to foster collaboration in healthcare and research spaces

BD+C

“Collaboration” has become an abiding design goal for many nonresidential building types, such as offices and educational institutions. But the medical field, with its hierarchical divisions and silo mentality among professionals, continues to resist a more collaborative workplace culture. Perkins Eastman set out to find out why, and used one of its own projects—the 95,000-sf NYU Winthrop Hospital Research and Academic Center in Mineola, N.Y.

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