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11 Advantages Of Fabric Buildings

Construction Marketing

Since fabric buildings are tensile structures, the membrane can be pulled into a three-dimensional surface for developing shading, a roof, or a decorative component. Simply put, they’re a building made of all-steel frames and tarp covers or fabric material. Read on to learn about the advantages of fabric buildings.

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Important Things to Know Before Building a Commercial Building

Construction Marketing

There are several different options including concrete, metal, and fabric. Concrete buildings can withstand more environmental wear over time, while metal buildings are low on maintenance, and fabric buildings can be put up and taken down easily. . Each of them has its own benefits and disadvantages depending on the industry. .

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Minnesota-Based Pipeliner Achieves Safety Milestone

Construction Equipment

million hours worked without a lost-time injury. The company is a pipeline contractor that works in pipeline maintenance and construction, fabrication, horizontal directional drilling, hydrostatic testing, and… United Piping (UPI), based in Duluth, Minnesota, finished 2019 with a record of 2.5

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Are You Ready For An OSHA Audit?

FDR Safety

This blog is targeting small employers, especially those involved with sheet metal fabrication. Over the past few years, FDRsafety has been asked to represent a disproportionate number of small metal fabricating plants. That’s a pretty high bar to reach in metal fabrication. Spot welders, riveters, manual forming machines, etc.

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PPE Products for Increased Jobsite Safety

Pro Builder

PPE Products for Increased Jobsite Safety ldeakins Thu, 06/15/2023 - 13:14 Falls accounted for just over 35% of all workplace deaths within construction and extraction occupations in 2020, and during that same year, construction laborers saw their highest annual fatal injury count (308) in half a decade, according to the U.S.

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What to Wear on a Construction Site as a Worker?

Work Gearz

Starting from working with heavy machineries to carrying heavy loads to working at heights to working with temporary structures, construction sites pose a serious threat of accidents and injuries to the workers! that are required to be worn in the construction sites for saving you from injuries ad hazards. So, let’s get started!

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Can Kevlar Be Cut? (Facts and Myths)

Work Gearz

Industries have heavy-duty pieces of equipment to cut through Kevlar. Every individual fabric of Kevlar moves and shifts while the fabric is being cut. So, it’s important to hold the fabric stable.  Keep the fabric to be cut on a solid strong surface.   Here’s how you can cut Kevlar neatly: 1.)