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Building over a building: A radical project from the archives

The Korte Company

When snow was in the forecast they’d stack coils of paper up three high to shore up parts of the roof they thought would collapse.”. But all that went out the window once a structural engineer from Omaha walked through. It was “dumb,” they’d said. They couldn’t afford it. Ralph was perplexed. Maybe he saw the stacked paper coils.

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Top 10 Construction Companies in the U.S.

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Location: Omaha, NE. Highly technical projects require significant resource planning, forecasting, and attention to detail. Employees: 55,000. Revenue: $17.6 Founded: 1906. Location: Irving, TX. Employees: 53,000. Revenue: $19.166 billion. Founded: 1912. Kiewit Corp. Employees: 22,000. Revenue: $10.3 Founded: 1884. Employees: 3,800.

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BC’s Blog December 08

Cassell Construction Estimating

Next year’s construction forecasts, released in December haven’t been good; industry experts predict a downturn in every single sector of construction for 2009. We did two days of training at Seedorff Masonry’s Omaha office. The good news is that fuel, lumber, drywall, and steel prices have fallen to their lowest prices in years.

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