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5 Best Lightweight Work Shirts

Work Gearz

Because heat can tire you, heavy fabric will add to your discomfort. They can leave you sweaty, itchy, and even sticky at work, and the heavier the shirt fabric, the longer it needs to dry if there’s a lot of perspiration. A heavier fabric will tend to absorb the perspiration moisture only adding to the shirt’s weight.

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What’s the difference between RFIs, Submittals and Specifications?

Fieldwire

Determining what material will be installed on the project Approving plans for items being custom fabricated Project quality control procedures and results Examples of submittal-heavy projects: Commercial buildings will often have complex pre-fabricated components, like elevators, windows, generators, and cooling towers.

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BIM at LOD400: Why Level of Development 400 matters for design and virtual construction

BD+C

At Walter P Moore, our solution is to solve design virtually, by producing a building information model (BIM) at Level of Development 400 (LOD400). By broadening design to anticipate construction issues and delivering a fabrication-ready model, engineers can create more certainty in cost, schedule, and design intent.

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Demystifying fire-retardant treated wood specifications

Construction Specifier

This article contains a strong, generic model specification in standard CSI format for FRTW that will help specifiers: • Identify the critical code requirements for FRTW; and. • The following sections correspond to those used in the model FRTW specification. Related materials. FRT plywood may be cut or ripped in any direction.

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What Are As Built Drawings?

Autodesk Construction Cloud

An as-built plan offers four important benefits, like improving onboarding, assisting the facilities team, streamlining the permitting process, and improving the renovation process. Streamlines permitting process: Oftentimes, government agencies request sets of as-builts in order to issue building permits.

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IS IT TIMBER OR STEEL OR CONCRETE? WHAT WOULD BE THE BEST IN USE?

Construction Cost Estimating

The structural concrete today permits engineers and architects to design, plan and achieve outstanding buildings that are as huge as they can be artistic. Marianne Fourie of the International Federation for Structural Concrete believes technological development and modernism over the centuries have polished its use.

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That Time of Year Again - Revit 2016

Revit OpEd

Fwiw, people involved with activities that carry an NDA (non-disclosure agreement) aren''t permitted to discuss things they are aware of until their particular agreements are lifted. The media embargo has been lifted for Revit 2016 so we''re beginning to see some information surface on blogs and other sites.

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