The Constructor

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

Ultrasonic test on concrete is a recognized non-destructive test to asses the homogeneity and integrity of concrete. With this ultrasonic test on.

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Construction Business Owner

MARCH 1, 2016

One of the consequences of the "do more with less" emphasis in construction is that everyone who participates in designing and building a project plays a more important role—subcontractors included. Building owners seek to satisfy customer demand for eco-friendly, ergonomic environments, all while keeping costs in check and projects on schedule. The result?

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Green Building Law Update

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

Owners of LEED buildings should evaluate the need to apply insecticides, killing mosquitoes to protect occupants from the Zika virus. Zika virus has been sweeping through South and Central America, with more than a million suspected cases during the past few months, along with a substantial increase in reporting of infants born with microcephaly. Although there needs to be a good deal of research to define critical aspects of infection, Zika is spread mostly by the bite of an infected aedes spec

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Viewpoint Construction Technology

MARCH 3, 2016

COBie is actually the key differentiator for the UK Governments strategy.

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The Constructor

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

The density of water changes with respect to change in temperature. The density of water can be calculated as the mass of water per unit volume.

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BIM & Beam

MARCH 3, 2016

The Building Information Modeling for Masonry Initiative has created a guide to provide architects, engineers, and mason contractors with tools for developing Autodesk Revit models for modeling masonry buildings. The Masonry Society (TMS) and the Building Information Modeling for Masonry Initiative have collaborated to fund and oversee the production of this guide.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

MARCH 2, 2016

By The BF Staff From the January/February 2016 Issue. PROJECT TITLE: VOLVO’S FIRST ASSEMBLY PLANT IN NORTH AMERICA ENTERED BY: SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. V olvo Car Corporation’s selection of Berkeley County, SC for its first North American manufacturing facility has earned the South Carolina Department of Commerce the Silver Award in BF ’s 2015 Economic Development Deal of the Year competition.

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Contractor Magazine

MARCH 3, 2016

Mr. Rooter Plumbing, a leader in the full-service plumbing industry, announced today that Glenn Gallas has been appointed vice president of operations. read more.

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Construction Business Owner

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

CIS staff demonstrates how to turn a load, presenting concepts of load center of gravity and proper rigging techniques.

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Construction Equipment

MARCH 4, 2016

According to Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) and the U.S. Department of Commerce, global markets for U.S. manufactured construction equipment reflected the downward trend in mining and the strong building growth in the United Arab Emirates.

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Help Everybody Everyday

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

The idea of marketing people reviewing price proposals is crazy, right? Yet, inevitably, a price proposal will find its way to your desk. Do you just assume it is perfect? Or is there some value you can add to the process? I’m going to explain how you can review cost proposals, even if you don’t know how to perform the work that’s being estimated. I’m also going to describe why I feel you can provide significant value to the process.

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Construction Marketing Ideas

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

At the SMPS Ontario meeting where national president Paula Ryan discussed the seller-doer model. Back in the olden days (like the 1970s and earlier), marketing for architectural and engineering professional practices was restricted. You couldn’t advertiser outside of “tombstone” ads naming principals — and so the way professional services discovered business usually was through networking, connections, and rainmakers — professionally qualified individuals (often the

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

MARCH 3, 2016

By the BF Staff From the January/February 2016 Issue. PROJECT TITLE: FORMOSA PETROCHEMICAL COMPLEX ENTERED BY: LOUISIANA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. S t. James Parish surrounds one of the biggest bends of the Mississippi River, where the waterway turns toward New Orleans halfway downstream from Louisiana’s capital, Baton Rouge. The Parish already was home to a major sugar refinery, a new direct reduced iron manufacturer and a host of agribusiness and chemical manufacturing operations, when it landed w

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Construction Equipment

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

The annual bad bridge reportcard came out this month listing each state's worst bridges. This year, Rhode Island had the highest percentage of structurally deficient bridges in the country at 23 percent. Estimating that trucks cause 70 percent of the damage to RI's state roads each year but contribute only 20 percent of the revenue towards the state's infrastructure, RI's lawmakers worked out a plan for a trucks-only toll system on major bridges statewide that will fund both new bridges and exis

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Green Industry Professionals

MARCH 4, 2016

MarketResearch.com outlines several key trends that are shaping the $6.3 billion industry for landscaping products in the U.S.

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Contractor Bookkeeping

MARCH 4, 2016

You're A Smart Contractor And You Know QuickBooks Has The Answers. You Need To Operate And Grow Your Construction Company. Every time you or your bookkeeper opens the darn thing it sits there and does nothing. That's because QuickBooks is deaf and dumb! The people that developed QuickBooks are genius's and I really mean it because the products they put out are top drawer!

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Safety Services Company

MARCH 1, 2016

What do the Metro North derailment, Exxon Valdez, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and a few other notable aircraft incidents have in common? Fatigue. Employee fatigue played a role in all these tragedies and many more. As an employer, you must ensure your workers are not experiencing signs or effects of fatigue on the job. You can help make your workers and your business safer by including information on fatigue and sleep in your safety guidelines and orientations.

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MARCH 4, 2016

Among the first visible signs of the massive land and sea infrastructure network China is constructing across Eurasia was a cargo train that left eastern China and arrived in Tehran this past February 16. It marked the beginning of China's use of global road and rail building to stimulate its economy, expand its trade routes, and secure its access to oil.

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Construction Dive

MARCH 3, 2016

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) continues to grant exemptions for commercial use of drones, reaching 3,711 this past week. In other news, two of the leading drone manufacturers have announced new drones that will contain collision avoidance technology. Read more.

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Construction Marketing Ideas

MARCH 4, 2016

Englewood Construction’s Hard Hat Chat provides useful industry context information, while serving the contractor’s marketing message objectives. Yesterday, I reported on a blog (whose owner shall remain nameless), which failed to achieve the minimum standards because you couldn’t extract any useful information from it — each blog posting had a “selling” message which forced you to spend money if you wanted to find anything useful (and because of the lack of u

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Safety Services Company

MARCH 1, 2016

What do the Metro North derailment, Exxon Valdez, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and a few other notable aircraft incidents have in common? Fatigue. Employee fatigue played a role in all these tragedies and many more. As an employer, you must ensure your workers are not experiencing signs or effects of fatigue on the job. You can help make your workers and your business safer by including information on fatigue and sleep in your safety guidelines and orientations.

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MARCH 4, 2016

Construction employment totaled 6,631,000 in February, the most since December 2008, and is up by 253,000 jobs compared to a year ago, a 4.0 percent increase. Residential construction increased by 15,900 in February and by 155,100, or 6.4 percent, compared to a year ago. Nonresidential construction employment increased by 3,500 jobs for the month and is up by 98,300 jobs compared to February 2015, a 2.5 percent increase., according to an analysis of new government data by the Associated General

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Construction Dive

MARCH 3, 2016

By Bruce Jervis Bidders on public construction contracts frequently have exaggerated impressions of their rights. Basically, a disappointed bidder has only the tools conferred by regulation and statute. And, those laws vary greatly among jurisdictions. This was illustrated in the bidding on a fire station project in Missouri. The fire district bypassed the low bid without any determination that the bid was nonresponsive or the bidder was not responsible.

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Construction Marketing Ideas

MARCH 3, 2016

An image unrelated to any blog in the Best Construction Blog competition, because this review is of a blog that I can’t identify under my policy of not identifying individual businesses and organizations negatively. Yesterday, I had a difficult challenge with a Best Construction Blog Competition nominee that shall remain unnamed in line with my policy not to comment negatively about individuals and organizations.

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Safety Services Company

MARCH 1, 2016

OSHA has a full slate of objectives coming up for 2016 and beyond. Here is a brief look at safety issues on the horizon. OSHA has outlined how the General Duty Clause will be used to cite exposure limits beyond the Permissible Exposure Limits (PEL) to more protective occupational exposure limits based on industry practices, such as the ACGIH Threshold Limit Values (TLV), and the NIOSH Recommended Exposure Limits (REL).

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MARCH 4, 2016

The National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) will celebrate Women in Construction (WIC) Week March 6-12, 2016. “NAWIC’s core purpose is ‘enhancing the success of women in the construction industry,’ and what better way to continue this purpose but to dedicate our WIC Week, not only to our members, but to all women working in and for the construction industry and to recognize the contributions women make to the success of projects in all facets of the industry,” said NAWIC resident R

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Construction Dive

MARCH 3, 2016

This week's blog highlights from across the industry look at:Construction equipment scale modelsA look at construction wasteGood news on surety bonds for small contractorsManagement advisory for project supervisionRead more.

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Construction Marketing Ideas

MARCH 1, 2016

Matt Handal publishes a great blog, but is unlikely to campaign and win the Best Construction Blog competition. Matt Handal’s Help Everybody Every Day blog probably won’t have much chance of winning the 2016 Best Construction Blog competition. Not because it doesn’t deserve to be a contender — but Matt doesn’t push the process with campaigning and initiatives to get out the vote; in fact, he didn’t even initiative the nomination — I did.

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