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FEMA Recommends I-Codes For National Flood Insurance Program

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A Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) flood plain management report says current model building codes, such as the International Codes (I-Codes), have flood provisions that are consistent with NFIP requirements for buildings and structures. Posted by Heidi Schwartz.

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Construction Law: March 2024

Construction Law

News Our regular news round up includes a call from insurance companies for pilot projects to find investment models for green infrastructure; failure of another legal challenge to the Stonehenge project; and a warning that the new Building Safety Regulator is looking for a high profile prosecution to make a point.

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Natural Disasters Cause $85 Billion Global Economic Loss During First Half Of 2013

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Impact Forecasting , the catastrophe model development center of excellence at Aon Benfield (the global reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor of Aon plc), has issued its mid-year natural disaster analysis, which aggregates the key global natural disaster perils data for the first half of 2013. Posted by Heidi Schwartz. billion).

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Is PFI about to be reborn?

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Alternative ways of bringing in the funds available from lenders like insurance companies and pension funds were being sought and various proposals involving hybrid public/private partnership type arrangements mooted. Its 25 year commercial arrangement is based on the ‘PF2’ model – which has since been scrapped by the Treasury.

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Hard Cost Estimating of Labor Worksheet

Construction Cost Estimating

This worksheet includes all of the hours for paid vacations, holidays, participating in training programs or trade events and company meetings in the anticipated labor costs. Building In building information modeling construcion estimating constructioin cost data constructioin estimating construction builder construction code'

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Zip System™ Roof Assembly Stays Dry in Hurricane Conditions

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The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) conducted a hurricane-force, wind-driven rain demonstration on January 9, 2020, to show the water resistance of a FORTIFIED Roof ™ built with a ZIP System Roof Assembly. Zip System™ Roof Assembly Stays Dry in Hurricane Conditions. kcichowicz. Thu, 10/29/2020 - 07:20.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

INSURANCE |. Just like we expect our smart phones to alert us of daily events and provide us with apps that are easily accessible, contractors are expecting more from their machines and software. It’s a construction collaboration tool that lets everyone in the industry tap into the BIM (Building Information Modeling) process for free.