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Are Your Hotel General Contractors Checked In or Out?

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As the summer approaches and schools across the country will be taking an extended break, the busiest travel season of the year will begin. Smith Travel Research reports that U.S. Nationally, real spending on travel and tourism turned up in the fourth quarter of 2012, increasing at an annual rate of 1.8 percent in 2013.

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3 ways the most innovative companies work differently

BD+C

Innovators have easier access to space for critical work activities like focused concentration, informal and confidential conversations, and video conferences. The rest of the time was spent working in alternate office locations, client/customer sites, travel, and coworking spaces.

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What Is Limit State Method | Assumption in Limit State of Collapse | Limit State Design | What Is Working Stress Method | Assumptions in Working Stress Method | Working Stress Method of Design

CivilJungle

The limit state method of design is conferred in section 5 of IS code 456: 2000. So the beam or column made by plane cement concrete has a low load-carrying capacity and fails by cracking in the tension zone. So the reinforced steel bar is placed in the concrete in the tension zone. What Is Limit State Method?

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About risk and reward in marketing: Can you take the (rational) leap of faith?

Construction Marketing Ideas

I rationally decided to stay far away from the actual war zones — though folks at home in Canada thought I was a daring risk taker. ” Motivational speaker and former poker player Caspar Berry will discuss risk taking at the SMPS Build Business Conference. A dramatized simulation of a 1979 Rhodesian soldier.

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Open Borders

Business Facilities

They’ve become proponents of a regional tech zone spanning the border; they’ve even got a name for it: the Cascadia Innovation Corridor (a name derived from the Cascade mountain range that cuts through the U.S.-Canada Last month, at a Cascadia Conference held in Vancouver, WA Gov. Canada border).

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The tale of two BIM-stillborns and the relativity of time in developing global BIM to a useful level

DebunkTheBIM

x-ray pictures) travelling over my mail system, Google still keeps on bombarding me with ‘targeted ads’. Let’s be patient, nurturing, keep people in their comfort zones, doze them with BIM slowly, tenderly. Tripped one foot over the other and spread myself awkwardly on the gravel tucked with the right arm under my ‘slender’ body.

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Leading the Home Building Industry: Pro Builder's 2021 Forty Under 40

Pro Builder

Off the Clock • Working out • Traveling • Crushing it as a single mom with a full-time career. Hovnanian Homes • Southeast Building Conference speaker. Off the Clock • Spending time with family • Golf • Cooking • Travel . Secret Life • Enjoys analyzing land zoning and development layouts for fun. . . . .