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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. . With metal buildings, they should be inspected and cleaned once a year.

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Analysis Traces Mississippi River Bridge Beam Crack to Fabrication

ENR Construction

Arkansas DOT separately issued its own report detailing needed improvements for the agency's inspection program.

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Analysis Traces Mississippi River Bridge Beam Fracture to Fabrication Process

ENR Construction

Separately, the Arkansas DOT issued its own report detailing needed improvements for the agency's inspection program.

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Trending: The Rise of Prefab and Modular Commercial Construction Techniques

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Not all that long ago, when I was still a young laborer in the field, many items such as millwork, ductwork and mechanical components were still frequently fabricated on the job site. Back then, many “old timers” predicted prefabrication was the future.

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Detail quality control methods in construction works

Construction Cost Estimating

This civil engineering article sheds light on the inspection method of various civil works as well as necessary documents to carry out an inspection at construction project. Construction activities and consequent inspection standard should be based on job site specifications, methods and drawings.

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In Construction, There’s A Tattletale And There’s What is Right

Best Practices Construction Law

Waukegan was responsible for fabricating and installing the structural steel of project. The subcontractor was required to submit “fabrication quality control and weld inspection certificates” to the government before payment was issued. That employee fabricated the requested welding inspection certificates.

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Structural silicone glazing

Construction Specifier

Contemporary prefabricated and unitized systems that leverage SSG technology have come to supplant earlier field-fabricated and stick-built systems that typically limited the use of field-installed SSG glazing , often using SSG only in combination with mechanically captured pressure bars along vertical or horizontal edges.