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How Industrialized Construction Is Changing the Way We Build   

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Modular and prefabricated building methods provide consumers with consistent experiences, regardless of dining in Florida or Oklahoma or booking a room in Texas or Michigan. methods to shorten the design and build lifecycle to open new restaurants and hotels faster and at scale across the country.? . And in Boston,? Suffolk Construction ?and

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Workforce Training: Engineering A Skilled Workforce

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

Epic Piping, a Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based pipe fabricator, opened a new 221,500-square-foot facility in San Marcos in early 2015 and projects having as many as 600 employees by late 2016. Epic Piping is one of the largest specialty pipe fabricators of its kind under one roof in the world. Source: Oklahoma Department of Commerce).

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Oklahoma Incentives and Workforce Development Guide

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

The updated Oklahoma incentives guide is brought to you by Real Street Expo , a new event sponsored by Business Facilities and Today’s Facility Manager magazines. For a list of Oklahoma economic development agencies that can help with the site selection process, visit our Online Site Seekers’ Guide.

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Industry Focus: MidAmerica’s World-Class Flow Chart

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

For certain manufacturing processes, from food processing to metal fabrication, from cooling to transporting, water is indispensable. Today MidAmerica’s water system is the still fourth largest in Oklahoma. Archives Articles By Industry Articles By Topic Featured Post Industry Focus Magazine Magazine Highlights Oklahoma U.S.

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Factors driving cold storage warehouse construction costs

The Korte Company

We often recommend choosing Tilt-Up concrete construction because it’s much easier to build panels to the exact size you need with locally available ready-mix and rebar than it is to order custom-fabricated steel from somewhere else. Plus, it’s a speedier construction process that requires less labor.

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Keeping Up With Advanced Manufacturing

Business Facilities

WE HAVE LIFTOFF IN OKLAHOMA. Oklahoma’s advanced manufacturing industry is soaring with activity in aerospace, energy and other high tech industries and is supported by a hub of collaborative partnerships—from higher education and the Oklahoma CareerTech system to local economic development organizations and industry associations.

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Critical Issues and BIM – NIBS buildingSMART alliance conference – January 7-11, 2013

Building Information Management

The buildingSMART alliance TM Conference will help you understand how BIM can better integrate the design, construction, fabrication and operation processes, and provide you with the latest metrics available to assess industry progress. 10:00 – 11:30 AM Construction – Fabrication Integration.

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