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Senate DOT Spending Plan Draws Industry Support Over House's Deep Cuts

ENR Construction

A wide gap between House and Senate committees' DOT 2024 appropriations bills shows contrast in transportation spending priorities.

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What Is Oblique Drawing | Oblique Drawing Examples | What Is Oblique View | Oblique Projection | Oblique Shape | Cabinet Oblique | What Is Cavalier Drawing

CivilJungle

What Is Oblique Drawing? Oblique Drawing is a type of projective drawing in which the frontal lines are given in true proportions and relations and all others at suitable angles other than 90 degree without thinking about the rules of linear perspective. This way of drawing is known as Oblique Drawing.

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How to Draw a House Plan Step by Step

CivilJungle

How to Draw a House Plan Step by Step? You should know the right process to draw a house plan before you start drawing a plan on paper. Drawing a house plan takes much more effort and patience than doing other things. Basics: Before preparing a perfect plan to draw some decisions need to be taken.

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Severin Doctrine: It's Another Name for "Pass-Through-Plus" Claims

Best Practices Construction Law

Rhode Island DOT , the contractor on a bridge project had failed to include a material supplier in its list of vendors to the DOT. The subcontractor prepared an additional 70 shop drawings for total of 1,650 additional hours for which it sought additional compensation. The claim was presented by the contractor to the DOT.

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Stock Award for DOT Sec. Chao Draws Spotlight

ENR Construction

A published report has raised questions about Vulcan Materials Co. deferred stock units that U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao received for her earlier stint as a board member of the company.

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The significance of the small print!

DebunkTheBIM

The small (or fine) print has for long been considered the trap in all sorts of contracts to be wary of by those signing onto the dotted line. The second group covers the ‘general sheets’, those densely written pages at the fronts of drawing sets, again containing small textual instructions, keys, legends etc.

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Nitpicking today – hinging of doors and arrows on stairs.

DebunkTheBIM

Go into any architectural consultancy employing people from different parts of the world and soon you’ll find two of them arguing about the way hinging of doors must be represented on drawings. One school of thought says: the dotted lines form a symbolised arrow (symbolised symbol?) and indicate the opening of the door.