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“Once-in-a-Generation” Opportunity for Women in Construction: Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act

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The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) is a “once-in-a-generation” investment in America’s national infrastructure. With this plan, the goal is to rebuild many of the bridges, rails, and roads throughout the country to improve the overall infrastructure across America.

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Technology will NOT SOLVE Construction Productivity Woes.

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Those doing the work do far more than complete repair, renovation, maintenance, of new construction tasks, they manage quality and develop creative solutions to ever-present variables. Performance is much more related to management philosophy. appeared first on 4BT.

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Meet the Insider: Alan Muse, Global Director of the Build Environment at RICS

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Alan Muse , Global Director of the Built Environment at the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) , is passionate about all of these things. I specialize in the project and cost management of global construction and infrastructure projects, with over 40 years of experience in the industry.

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ANZ Infrastructure Industry Well-Positioned to Meet 2030 Benchmarks and Achieve Net Zero by 2050

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In a first-time collaboration Autodesk (NASDAQ: ADSK), Australian Constructors Association , Consult Australia and the Infrastructure Sustainability Council have released a joint report to support industry in accelerating a net zero future through the design and construction of the infrastructure pipeline. . degrees. .

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Construction Cost Knowledge Management

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Information must be presented in plain English, using industry standard terms and definitions, and organized in a standard data format (CSI Masterformat). In order to truly reflect actual conditions, it also must be locally researched and customized to owner needs. has proven relatively fruitless.

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The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act: A Pivotal Moment for Water Public-Private Partnerships in the United States

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Introduction America’s water infrastructure has long faced a critical need for funding and modernization. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, there is a $105 billion funding gap for drinking water and wastewater infrastructure projected over the next two decades. [1] billion to the U.S. billion to the U.S. Indeed, $1.5

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The Transformative Power of Natural Building

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Our infrastructure is thus faced with the task of both integrating and responding to the duality of the island’s environment–natural abundance and natural risk–and this is a task it very rarely achieves. This all ends up negatively affecting our quality of life, neither connecting us to our environment nor protecting us from its risks.