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Keep Your Hands Safe in the Workplace This Winter

Construction Business Owner

Keep Your Hands Safe in the Workplace This Winter ccapoccia Thu, 01/04/2024 - 12:11 Hand injuries accounted for 102,350 days away from work in 2020, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the National Safety Council.

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How Elevated Safety Habits are Catalyzed by Leadership

Construction Business Owner

This statistic doesn't include the amount of injuries that are seen in the field every year, which are regularly numerous and often perilous. Many business owners understand the inherent dangers of working in construction and try to account for this by imposing new rules or leaving the responsibility to workers to fix the problem.

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40+ APAC Construction Industry Statistics You Need to Know

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Construction is always changing, which is why it’s worth keeping up with important statistics and developments across the industry. Jump to statistics by topic: General Outlook. Workforce Statistics . Spending on construction accounted for 13% of the global GDP in 2020; it’s expected to reach over 13.5% Bouncing back.

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Surprising Statistics About Federal Bid Protests

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Wally Zimolong over at Supplemental Conditions posted a piece about federal bid protest statistics. There were a few statistics in the report that I thought were pretty telling. But the statistic that stayed consistent was also pretty disturbing. First off, the number of formal bid protests rose almost 50% between 2008 and 2012.

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Construction Cost Data – A Valuable Read?

Job Order Contracting

While rates for labor, materials, and equipment are based on surveys and/or cost data from actual vendors, suppliers, builders, contractors, and construction projects and follow industry and statistical standards, so derived costs are likely to represent actual projects within a range of +/- 30%-40%.

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Area Cost Factors – Not a viable for Federal Construction Cost Estimating?

Job Order Contracting

There is overwhelming statistical significance and audit reporting that the cost estimates used to for physical infrastructure decision-making are highly and systematically misleading. Variances in labor, material, equipment, productivity, and means and methods cannot be accounted for by simply using a cost factor. References.

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Glossary of Greenhouse Gas Terms

Green Building Law Update

Climate Climate in a narrow sense is usually defined as the “average weather,” or more rigorously, as the statistical description in terms of the mean and variability of relevant quantities over a period of time ranging from months to thousands of years. The classical period is 3 decades, as defined by the World Meteorological Organization.