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Storage Units: Are They Worth Buying Or Building?

Construction Marketing

To Help Regular Travelers. Depending on their line of work, some people travel frequently. To store their goods, supplies, materials, and inventory relevant to their businesses, many business owners look for storage units. Purpose Of The Storage. Storage units serve an array of purposes. For Commercial Use.

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Plane travel and coronavirus: People are missing travel so much, they’re getting airline food delivered

Construction Test

The coronavirus pandemic has made us pine for travel – the booking, the downloading of the boarding pass, even the in-flight snacks. Its imperfection: It is excess inventory. JetBlue has donated leftover inventory of snacks to Feeding America and other food banks, as well as hospitals. We even miss the snacks. May 4, 2020.

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63,000 U.S. Bridges Need Repair: ARTBA

Construction Equipment

The American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) analysis of the 2013 National Bridge Inventory database recently released by the U.S. The most heavily traveled are on the Interstate system.'

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Online Homebuying Makes Way for Sight Unseen Bids

Pro Builder

Despite record low housing inventory, some first-time buyers remain insistent on becoming homeowners, even if it means never seeing the home in person before buying, reports the New York Times. Fri, 02/19/2021 - 09:47. First-time buyers made up 36% of total buyers in April 2020, a 5% increase from the two prior years.

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A Quick Science Refresher on Greenhouse Gas

Green Building Law Update

In 2020, the decrease in carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion corresponded with a decrease in energy use as a result of decreases in economic, manufacturing, and travel activity in response to the Coronavirus pandemic, in addition to a continued shift from coal to less carbon intensive natural gas in the electric power sector.

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Anglian Plant expands rapidly to meet customer demands

Digger Blog

Joe spent a year travelling around the country visiting machinery auctions, plant dealers, hire companies and anyone else that had good quality secondhand kit to purchase, with a view to re-selling the machines through his own business. In no time at all he sold the excavator to a retail customer in Poland.

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State of the Construction Industry: August Roundup

Viewpoint Construction Technology

In fact, the only industries with lower AI adoption rates were travel/tourism and professional services. For example, paying attention to how AI applications help with transportation route optimization or inventory management in retail could prove useful when contractors do start looking more seriously at AI.