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Make It Resilient 2024 Student Contest Encourages New Ways to Build for Extreme Environments

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Scholarship prizes total $50,000 and will support educational expenses such as tuition, books, room and board, transportation, and childcare. In addition, Autodesk is also offering students who who are continuing their education in the building trades $50,000 worth of microgrants *. Of course, it isn’t a contest without prizes!

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Guide to Top 2023-24 Construction Conferences & Events

Autodesk Construction Cloud

There are over 200 educational sessions combined with another 400 industry speakers and keynotes discussing sustainability, networking and more. Attend in person to take part in educational sessions and connect with industry professionals in architecture, engineering, design, manufacturing, media, entertainment, and construction.

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The Construction Office Imperative: Digitize, Go Paperless and Mobile

Carol Hagen

The Phoenix Construction Peer Exchange on February 24th. We’re having a guest keynote speaker, Randy Stutzman from FMI Capital Advisors present “Building Value for Your Construction Company Through Your Accounting and IT Groups” and offering two separate educational tracks addressing IT Strategy and Content management.

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Demystifying fire-retardant treated wood specifications

Construction Specifier

The codes require FRTW to be tested for an additional 20-minute period, meaning the FRTW is challenged by fire for a total of 30 minutes: • During the first 10 minutes of the extended test, the distance of flame travel and rate at which the flame front advances are used to calculate the flame spread index (FSI). Type I: 111,484-m2 (1.2

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Exciting products and fresh directions

Cassell Construction Estimating

Some rebound in health care, education, and agriculture is forecast for next year, but private development and residential construction is predicted to continue its decline. While much of our work can be done remotely from our office in Washington, we’re traveling frequently again.

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Advanced Manufacturing: Manufacturing Gets Smarter, Faster

Business Facilities

Taking advantage of that strong educational and training foundation is the new BRIDG (Building the Innovation Development Gap) facility at NeoCity in Osceola County. The excellent support we have received from Bay County EDA, Governor Rick Scott’s office, higher educational partners and The St. Photo: Enterprise Florida).

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State by State Incentives Guide

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

Property Tax Abatements: The Tax Incentive Reform Act of 1992 (TIRA) allows qualified industries to receive abatements of non-educational property taxes for new businesses locating to Alabama and for expansions of existing facilities in Alabama. The combined state and local millage rate would then be applied to the assessed value.

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