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The New Normal: Commercial Construction Continues in Unprecedented COVID-19 Times

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Currently, construction sites are open and work is continuing in most states where we have projects underway — including our home state of Illinois where construction is deemed an “essential” business exempt from the current stay-at-home directive put in place by our governor.

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Appeals court lowers bar for OSHA willful violations

FDR Safety

Circuit Court Appeals — which covers Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin — have lowered the burden of proof required for OSHA willful violations. The employee was stuck for more than five hours, and OSHA issued a willful violation of its permit-required confined space standard. Recent decisions from the 7th U.S.

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Strategies to Maximize Virtual Collaboration

Construction Business Owner

Join Autodesk, Swinerton, PARIC and OpenSpace to learn about resources and best practices that help construction companies succeed on important items such as inspections, permitting, reporting, bids and submissions with technology. Can’t attend the webinar? Register now and listen later. We’ll send you a link to the playback.

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State of the Construction Industry: January Roundup

Viewpoint Construction Technology

billion in new construction permits issued in 2018, while in-state neighbor Nashville currently has 18 projects underway valued at $100 million or more, including two $1 billion projects. In Chicago, officials are mulling over several design plans for an $8.5 billion expansion of O’Hare International Airport to modernize the facility.

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New Year’s Resolutions for Commercial Contractors: Goals and Strategies for Growth

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Add to that the fact that we have people like me, who started out in the field and worked their way up, to individuals with degrees in construction management, architecture (take the big guy, Englewood President Bill Di Santo, who has a degree in architecture from the University of Illinois), design, engineering and more.

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A HERS Rating for Water Use?

Pro Builder

Later on, as we launched the formal pilot at the end of 2020, we got more feedback that there was some difficulty regarding timing with the final HERS inspection and the HERS H2O rating when it came to evaluating irrigation systems because they’re something that is typically installed at the very end [of the project].

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Industry Focus: Logistics – Going With The Flow

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Located in the heart of Illinois; in the great Midwest; within 200 miles of metropolitan areas of Chicago, Indianapolis and St. The University of Illinois, a world leading research institution, is within one hour; and Decatur-based Millikin University provides quality offerings in a variety of disciplines.