Rays’ stadium roof blown off by Hurricane Milton
Construction Dive
OCTOBER 10, 2024
The storm shredded the canvas dome — designed to withstand 115 mph winds — of the Tampa Bay MLB park, built in 1990.
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Start Your Annual Sales Planning for Next Year’s Sales Success
Construction Business Owner
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Start Your Annual Sales Planning for Next Year’s Sales Success ccapoccia Thu, 10/10/2024 - 22:34 For construction organizations, end-of-year planning is a crucial time. It’s a time when leadership, operations, sales and marketing can come together to plan for next year’s sales success. This article outlines what a good plan looks like and offers key steps to develop and implement the plan.
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Data Driven Cost Estimating
Job Order Contracting
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Engage in data driven cost estimating with objective, verifiable, and current local market labor, material, and equipment price books from 4BT (Four BT, LLC). Approximately 90,000 line items including demolition lines and line item modifiers available within an easy-to-use web application. [contact-form] The post Data Driven Cost Estimating appeared first on 4BT.
CBO on the Road: Caterpillar
Construction Business Owner
OCTOBER 10, 2024
CBO on the Road: Caterpillar ccapoccia Thu, 10/10/2024 - 14:51 In August, I had the opportunity to attend Caterpillar’s launch celebration for eight next-generation skid steers and compact track loaders. Construction trade press members, as well as industry influencers, were invited to the to the Edwards Demonstration & Learning Center in Peoria, Illinois, for a day of machine demonstrations, educational sessions, operating opportunities and interviews.
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9 of the biggest OSHA fines of Q3 2024
Construction Dive
OCTOBER 10, 2024
One of the heftiest citations issued last quarter was to the contractor responsible for the January hangar collapse in Idaho.
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Leopardo Construction names new CFO, other execs
Construction Dive
OCTOBER 10, 2024
The Illinois-based contractor cited its recent growth and geographic expansion as the impetus for the promotions.
ENR 2024 Top 100 Green Design Firms and Contractors
ENR Construction
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Even before projects reach the shovel-ready phase, a “business as usual” mindset can stunt sustainability goals, says John Delaney, sustainability director at Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners.
Sneaking Water Into the Building for a Chilled Water Rescue
Contractor Magazine
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Making the chilled water outside would eliminate a compressor failure issue—but could we make it all work?
Assessments Underway After Hurricane Milton Rips Off Stadium Roof, Snaps Crane Boom in Florida
ENR Construction
OCTOBER 10, 2024
The storm weakened to a Category 3 hurricane by the time it made landfall, but tornados spurred by the weather killed at least five people.
Breaking Ground on Better Payment Processes: Strategies for Construction Pros
Speaker: Timothy Allsopp
Payment challenges often lead to delayed projects, financial bottlenecks, and strained relationships. With construction projects becoming more complex, outdated processes are no longer sustainable. By refining financial workflow, companies can improve cash flow, reduce error, and foster trust between stakeholders. Discover practical strategies for redesigning payment systems to overcome workflow challenges while creating a smoother, more reliable process for contractors and subcontractors alike.
Build lean, clean, and green: Exploring off-site heavy timber construction
Construction Specifier
OCTOBER 10, 2024
By Mike Banta Photos courtesy Mid-Atlantic Timberframes In the construction industry, there has long been a tendency to do things a certain way, primarily because “that is the way it has always been done.” However, as technology advances and projects become more complex—and with labor at a more significant premium than ever—several challenges to the traditional way of doing things on a job site have emerged.
The Life and Death Differences Small Infrastructure Grants Can Make
ENR Construction
OCTOBER 10, 2024
An editorial on why small infrastructure investments do more good and matter so much to more people than you think.
Mega-disrupters found to lie behind half of disputes worldwide
Construction Law
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Five ‘mega-disrupters’ lie behind half of the disputes on construction projects internationally, according to analysis from professional services provider HKA. To read more of this and every other news story on this site, please log in with your Construction Law membership account details. If you don't have an account, you can get free access to the news on this site and receive a free newsletter on Fridays by creating a Newsletter account.
Small Infrastructure Grants Can Make Life and Death Differences
ENR Construction
OCTOBER 10, 2024
An editorial on why small infrastructure investments do more good and matter so much to more people than you think.
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New Towns construction to start in 2030, says Taskforce head
Construction Law
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Locations of the government’s planned New Towns will be identified by summer 2025 but construction will not start before the next parliament, which could mean 2030, says the New Towns Taskforce chair Sir Michael Lyons. To read more of this and every other news story on this site, please log in with your Construction Law membership account details. If you don't have an account, you can get free access to the news on this site and receive a free newsletter on Fridays by creating a Newsletter accou
ENR 2024 Top 200 Environmental Firms: Making an Epic Transformation
ENR Construction
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Financial, legal and political bumps did not dent the global environmental services market for ENR’s Top 200 Environmental Firms, based on results reported in this year’s ranking.
Procurement must embed ‘One Crisis” approach, says report
Construction Law
OCTOBER 10, 2024
The Departments for Energy Security and Net Zero and Environment Farming and Rural Affairs must take a ‘One Crisis’ approach to tackle climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss, says the Environmental Industries Commission (EIC) in a report. To read more of this and every other news story on this site, please log in with your Construction Law membership account details.
Construction Economics for October 14, 2024
ENR Construction
OCTOBER 10, 2024
ENR’s 20-city average cost indexes, wages and materials prices. Historical data and details for ENR’s 20 cities can be found at ENR.
Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025
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Report identifies root causes of cost management failures on projects
Construction Law
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Four root causes have been identified by the National Infrastructure Commission as being behind systemic failures of cost management on major infrastructure projects in a new report ‘Cost drivers of major infrastructure projects in the UK’. To read more of this and every other news story on this site, please log in with your Construction Law membership account details.
Industry Leads for the Week of October 14, 2024
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OCTOBER 10, 2024
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Biden signs law allowing CHIPS Act projects to forgo environmental review
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OCTOBER 10, 2024
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Politics Muddy Needed Energy Policy
ENR Construction
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Leave it to a fast-track, rhetoric-amplified national election to add confusion to an already complicated U.S. energy agenda.
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Why ENR’s Art Director Loves Your Photo Contest Entries
ENR Construction
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Bring them on, says ENR Senior Art Director Scott Hilling. Send in submissions now for ENR’s annual photo contest in time for the Nov. 18 deadline, as ENR eagerly anticipates receiving what is likely to be at least 1,000 images depicting scenes from the past year of global construction. Hilling, ENR editors and others look forward each year to reviewing the array of images.
ENR at the Front With the Corps and Seabees in World War II
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OCTOBER 10, 2024
Bulldozers come first. This slogan crystallizes the role that engineering and construction played in World War II, where combatants were far more mobile than in previous conflicts.
From the ENR Archives: June 15, 1944
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OCTOBER 10, 2024
This June 1944 cover image shows a Navy Seabee driving a bulldozer out from the hold of a landing craft onto the beach of an unnamed Pacific island.
VIEWPOINT: Navigating Massachusetts’s Stretch Code and its Impact on Building Envelope Design
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There are new requirements for building air tightness, glazing thermal performance, energy conservation, code compliance paths, and thermal bridging.
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US Lead Water Line Replacement Required in Under a Decade In Final EPA Rule
ENR Construction
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Biden administration announced Oct. 8 $2.6 billion more for that effort, distributed through drinking water state revolving funds and added to $15 billion funded through the federal infrastructure law.
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