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Oh No! I’ve Graduated With a Construction Management Degree.

Constructonomics

But be careful of the pigeon hole, and being shipped to Alaska to build the first paved dogsled track. You probably want to at least pay a lawyer for a few hours to review the agreement and documentation that all parties involved will be signing. Do It Your Damn Self. Last but not least, Chill Out.

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Platforms and online networks: The challenge of creating effective systems and tools

Construction Marketing Ideas

The cover says: “We are currently focused in the greater Philadelphia and Houston marketplace” but I couldn’t find any active projects, and the only tradesperson I could see listed was a welder based in Alaska. As an example, I’ve seen earlier incarnations of bidding network systems.

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Deepwater Horizon: Three Years Later

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

That’s almost 20 times more than what seeped out of the Exxon Valdez off the coast of Alaska in 1989. BP says it has set aside about $8 billion to cover these economic and property damage loss claims (the agreement does not set a cap on the liability), of which about $1.87

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Guest Blog – Public Contracting: Why You Need Performance and Payment Bonds

Construction Law Monitor

In the extreme worst cases, a well-intentioned infrastructure project can become a wildly over-budget public controversy (like Boston’s Big Dig ), or a politically radioactive debacle that’s talked about nationwide (like Alaska’s infamous “ Bridge to Nowhere “).

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BC’s Blog December 08

Cassell Construction Estimating

Working with Skyline will be a new, great opportunity for us in the Islands, as well as in Alaska, and the Pacific Northwest. Back in Washington in mid-December, we’ll be working in the office with our Support Assurance Plan (SAP) clientele in Iowa, Washington, and Arizona, to renew agreements for the coming year.

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Icy Hot

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

Even if a consensus develops around the protocol, the guidelines will be voluntary, like those of last month’s much-heralded Paris Agreement on climate change (nearly 200 nations agreed to the climate-change reduction plan at the COP21 conference in Paris, but the deal left certain emission targets non-binding).

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COVER STORY: 2013 Business Facilities Rankings Report – State Rankings

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

In 2012, North Dakota surpassed Alaska and California to become the second largest oil-producing state in the nation behind Texas, according to the U.S. million agreement for Shelton State Community College to support Mercedes-Benz U.S. Energy Information Administration. Earlier in the year, AIDT formalized a $1.6-million