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Assessing Feasibility

FDR Safety

The answers can be determined but only after documented due diligence using Task Based Risk Assessment (past blogs) and assessing feasibility of hazard controls. You must have a documented risk assessment, documentation of why LOTO is not feasible and validation that the controls in lieu of LOTO achieve acceptable risk.

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The Weekly show, Jan 28, 2021: Generative design tools for feasibility studies, and landscape design trends in the built environment

BD+C

Landscape design trends in the built environment. • How AEC teams and real estate developers can improve real estate feasibility studies with real-time generative design. . . This week on The Weekly show, BD+C editors speak with AEC industry leaders from Studio-MLA and TestFit about: .

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Construction Equation: Knowledge Problems + Data Problems + Management Problems = Outcome Problems

Job Order Contracting

Lack of recognition by senior management of the linkage between between the built environment and organizational mission Low level of understanding of both life-cycle total-cost-of-ownership management and integrated lean planning, procurement, and project delivery principles and processes. Data Problems. Eric Korpi, & Timo Ala?Risku.

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Is Gravity Part of OSHA’s LOTO Regulation?

FDR Safety

However, the ability for any management to foresee the thousands of maintenance tasks where a skilled worker must deal with gravity is not practicable nor feasible. The only practicable and feasible means of addressing this issue is to deal with it as part of your training for the control of hazardous energy. What can we do?

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Is Gravity Part of OSHA’s LOTO Regulation?

FDR Safety

However, the ability for any management to foresee the thousands of maintenance tasks where a skilled worker must deal with gravity is not practicable nor feasible. The only practicable and feasible means of addressing this issue is to deal with it as part of your training for the control of hazardous energy. What can we do?

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10 Types of Construction Estimates and their Definitions

Chianelli Estimating

Volatile market conditions such as fluctuating prices, and changes in the supplier environment and regulations can all be hard to predict and therefore difficult to incorporate into an estimate. These are similar to ROM but contain additional analysis and detail that help discern the feasibility of various project elements.

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Electric fleet challenges and considerations

CK Power

Neither is a technology that makes grid power feasible for high-stakes battery charging, on- or off-highway. For now, the only feasible alternatives are hybrid charging systems powered by diesel or gaseous gensets. What environment will you deploy the equipment in? For some, this is where electrification stops making sense.