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Staying in control with fabric cladding

Construction Specifier

Tension fabric structures have served a key role as a cost-effective facility solution for years. In some cases, users have turned to fabric buildings when brick-and-mortar construction is not economically feasible or would take too long to complete. The fabric building market remained stable, but also stagnant, for a long time.

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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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Is Gravity Part of OSHA’s LOTO Regulation?

FDR Safety

Examples include: A skilled worker setting up a frame for welding and fabrication and a 400 lb. 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. Why is it so difficult to cite gravity related accidents? What can we do?

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Is Gravity Part of OSHA’s LOTO Regulation?

FDR Safety

Examples include: A skilled worker setting up a frame for welding and fabrication and a 400 lb. 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. Why is it so difficult to cite gravity related accidents? What can we do?

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It's Alive! First-Ever 3D-Printed Excavator Unveiled

Construction Equipment

Known as Project AME - Additive Manufactured Excavator - industry partners, university students, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) researchers designed and fabricated the world’s first large scale use of steel in a 3D printing application.

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Conceptual Estimating is ideal for project feasibility study

Construction Cost Estimating

A well developed conceptual estimate is based on the study of historical project cost factors and result in forecasting rapid estimates & accurate cost for project feasibility studies, budgeting and financing the finished products, financial evaluation of a number of alternative projects etc.

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Benefits of externally bonded reinforcement toward concrete & masonry

Construction Cost Estimating

Fabric-reinforced cementitious matrix (FRCM) systems are gaining popularity as a feasible substitute to FRP systems. Properties of FRCM FRCM systems are externally bonded strengthening systems which contain a fabric mesh implanted in a cementitious matrix. Both hydraulic and non-hydraulic cements are applied.