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Viewpoint: Contractors Should Update Their Pollution Insurance Coverage

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Owners, general and trade contractors can take steps to mitigate the consequences of an environmental incident.

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Viewpoint: Industry Needs An Infrastructure Bill That Boosts The Worker Pipeline

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must enact provisions in funding legislation to insure career success for those long underrepresented in skilled-trades—before workforce gaps get any bigger. Carpenter apprentice Lisa Guzman, and others in industry, say U.S.

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Viewpoint: How to Protect Your Jobsite and Equipment From Theft

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The most recent insurance estimates suggest that equipment theft costs the industry anywhere from $300 million to $1 billion annually.

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Viewpoint: Adjusting to the ‘Post-Truth’ Environment Driving Up Insurance Claims Costs

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How the pandemic has added to the unpredictability.

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How to Manage Compliance for Construction Success

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Viewpoint recently published a white paper about tackling this challenge. Insurance and bonding requirements. Building codes , insurance requirements and bonding requirements can vary by location, though. Construction management is challenging, in no small part because the industry is governed by a plethora of regulations.

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Essential BIM Terminology

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Viewpoint software seamlessly integrates with BIM for increased collaboration. It focuses on professional indemnity insurance issues. Viewpoint software’s workflow tools ensure the PAS 1192 process is followed and recorded. To harness BIM to its fullest potential, it’s important to know what each party is taking about.

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Viewpoint: Making the Case for Firms to Buy Terrorism Insurance

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It’s only a matter of time before a terrorist again targets American infrastructure for a deadly act of violence.