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Helping schools see the light: data reveals daylighting’s importance in education

Construction Specifier

Like most projects, architectural choices in education projects are incredibly complex. These schools are now just as rare as the one-room schoolhouse because of this understanding of how light affects the education process. Education in a school where the quality of light changes throughout the day is not the greatest place to learn.

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Survival Shelter Ideas

Natural Building

I just found this YouTube channel called Survival Shelter Ideas that has some amazing videos like the one posted below. The post Survival Shelter Ideas appeared first on Natural Building Blog. You can watch “The Most Beautiful Underground House Villa by Ancient Skills” at www.youtube.com.

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Are Basements a Good Idea?

Natural Building

I don’t want to greenwash the idea, because in a North American context it’s nearly a guarantee that concrete, foam and toxic coatings are going to be used. The post Are Basements a Good Idea? I see way too many “green building” advertisements for foam ICFs! What do you think?

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FedRAMP limits Construction Productivity and Innovation

Job Order Contracting

Opportunity Cost: The time and resources spent on achieving FedRAMP compliance that could beused for research, development, and bringing new ideas to market hampers the growth and competitiveness of small businesses. Small businesses end up spending more time ensuring compliance than focusing on innovation and improvement.

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Celebrating Construction Safety Week 2024

PC Construction

and Canada will work together to educate our industry and build awareness about construction safety. And it requires every employee to be active in his or her role by looking out for each other, speaking up, and voicing ideas and concerns. Today we kick off Construction Safety Week. This week, construction firms across the U.S.

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35th IRMI CRC Educates to Protect

Construction Business Owner

The conference brought together more than 1,500 leading project owners, general contractors, subcontractors, developers, insurers, insurance agents and brokers to explore state-of-the-art ideas and techniques for improving insurance coverages, controlling insurance costs and fine-tuning risk management programs.

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Creating an Efficient FM Ecosystem – Key to Owner/Design-builder Alignment

Job Order Contracting

Training and education must be continuous, and empower participants to innovate and scale up ideas. Continuously build and retain knowledge. Lasting progressive change comes from people within the organization who buy into and carry out needed reforms. Common Data Environment. Define glossary of terms and definitions.

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