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stok Summer Travel Destinations

Stok

Lake Tahoe, CA for swimming, boating, and paddle boarding in some of the deepest, bluest water in the U.S. Yosemite National Park, CA for misty hikes to gushing waterfalls, granite big wall climbing, stunning and accessible viewpoints, and some of the state’s richest natural history. Go forth and explore! Join our newsletter.

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Conferences, conventions and events: The virtues of travel to gather insights (and how you can reduce your costs)

Construction Marketing Ideas

I’m writing this column from a hotel room in Palo Alto, CA. In a few hours, our group of somewhat more than 50 people from around the US (with a few, like me, from Canada) will take shuttle buses to Google’s Mountain View headquarters for a day of meetings and events. The program’s details cannot […].

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Sweating the Small Stuff: Controlling CA Costs

PSMJ Resources

If team members need to travel numerous times to look at an item, there is a serious problem. Time spent by the A/E team on additional resubmittals will also be deducted by the owner from the contractor’s progress payments and paid from those funds to the A/E firm. Build in restrictions on how often you will inspect punchlist items.

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CABLE STAYED METHOD OF BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION

The Constructor

With this method the deck segments can be either precast or cast-in-situ by travelling shutter arrangement. In ca cable stayed bridge, depending on its design, the cables carry the bridge deck from one or both sides of the supporting tower. The stay cables carry the deck and transfer all bridge loads to the foundations.

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Sage Timberline Estimating to adopt industry-standard Microsoft SQL.

Cassell Construction Estimating

Our travel schedule is busy this month: after attending World of Concrete Feb 2-4, we’re down in Phoenix talking to our customers in the Valley of the Sun. The week of Feb 9th we’re down in Port Hueneme, CA working with the Navy Sea Bees, updating training on their new US Cost Success estimating system. these guys are GOOD!)

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Business Facilities’ 10th Annual Rankings Report: Memphis, NOLA Are Logistics Leaders; Houston Is No. 1 In Use Of Renewable Energy

Business Facilities

“If you’re shipping something by air, it’s probably going through Memphis, and by water it will travel through New Orleans,” said BF Editor in Chief Jack Rogers. LONG BEACH, CA. New Orleans (MSY) also is home to BF ‘s Fastest Growing (U.S.) BUSINESS FACILITIES 2014 METRO RANKINGS REPORT. LOUISVILLE.

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Remembering Earthen Builder David Easton

Natural Building

“I found a book on the rack of a natural food store in Jackson, CA that was ‘How to Build Your House of Earth’ by an Australian named Rex Middleton. ” In 1992, David and his crew traveled to Leon, Nicaragua where they built a massive, rammed earth school building.

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