Construction Business Owner
JULY 23, 2014
'As a design and construction professional with more than 30 years of industry experience, I am shocked that construction is still an inefficient business. Multiple sources have documented that overall productivity in the construction industry has decreased throughout the last few decades. Despite all the tools and electronics on jobsites today, data from the U.S.
HardHatChat
JULY 15, 2014
'Englewood moved escalators to the corners of Westfield’s Fox Valley Mall in Aurora, Ill. to create better foot-traffic flow and help struggling retailers. Even in the best shopping center developments, not all spaces are created equal. Many shopping centers owners have difficulty leasing or keeping consistent retail tenants in certain portions of their shopping mall.
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The Constructor
JULY 24, 2014
'Types of cracks Structural cracks. Non Structural Cracks.
Constructonomics
JULY 16, 2014
'Whatever home improvements you’re making, the secret to brilliant results is good attention to detail. Whilst painting your property may appear to be one of the simpler DIY tasks, great results take patience and care. Here are our top five secrets to paint perfection when decorating your home: 1. Sand away any flaws. To get the best paint finish around your home, you need to ensure you have a smooth and perfect canvas – whether that’s on the walls or the woodwork.
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Green Building Law Update
JULY 27, 2014
'A case filed last week in a California court is a prime example of the importance of contract documents in a LEED project. Earlier this year the City of Palo Alto gave notice firing Flintco Pacific, Inc., the general contractor responsible for construction of the Mitchell Park library, a proposed LEED Platinum project. With a performance bond in place, the City and the surety announced in early March that they has negotiated a takeover agreement that will allow a new contractor to complete cons
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Construction Business Owner
JULY 24, 2014
'Construction equipment has come a long way from its beginnings more than 100 years ago. This is particularly true of technology improvements that are designed to provide more valuable information to equipment operators, owners and fleet managers.
BD+C
JULY 16, 2014
'Reed Construction Data has announced that the dollar value of construction starts in June, excluding residential activity, surged 34% versus May. The figures are in "current" dollars, meaning they are not adjusted for inflation. The individual month of June, at $32.0 billion, was one of the strongest in Reed''s entire database. To find a similarly high volume, one has to look back at June 2008, just before the Great Recession really took hold.
The Constructor
JULY 17, 2014
'Majority of cast-in-situ pile fails because of defective pile shaft necking, intrusion of foreign matters and improper toe formation due to.
Constructonomics
JULY 27, 2014
'While it is typically patrons of a casino that are in need of a little luck, this time it is Revel Casino that needs to either double down or take what is left of their once enormous pile of chips and cash out. Basically, Revel Casino has 16 with the dealer showing a face card and after their second bankruptcy in less than 18 months, they need to take a hit.
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Green Building Law Update
JULY 7, 2014
'We are increasingly called upon to give legal opinions that a green building is LEED certified, ‘certifiable’ or otherwise really a green building. The purpose of a legal opinion given in a commercial real estate transaction is, most simply put, to provide the recipient of the lawyer’s writing with comfort regarding specified aspects of the transaction.
Carol Hagen
JULY 2, 2014
'Bluebeam Shortcuts are a huge timesaver and it’s well worth memorizing your favorites but there are conditions when they simply do not work. The default setting in Bluebeam is set to disable shortcuts whenever the document you are working on contains a form field. This is set to avoid any conflict between keyboard shortcuts and typing in the form field.
Construction Business Owner
JULY 24, 2014
'As recently as 20 years ago, a project manager managed projects by working with people—employees, vendors, consultants, designers, subcontractors and, most important, owners. Today, project managers manage information. The rise of email and other electronic data has spawned an information tsunami that’s a full-time job to manage.
BD+C
JULY 11, 2014
'Famed Chicago architect Jeanne Gang is headed westward. Yesterday, San Francisco’s newest tower proposal was unveiled, the S an Francisco Chronicle reports , and it will be a 400-foot-tall tower designed by Gang. Renderings show that the planned residential tower will be a tier of bay windows placed slightly askew on top of each other, resulting in a flowing, twisting-effect.
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The Constructor
JULY 27, 2014
'JOINT DETAILING OF STEEL HOLLOW SECTIONS Detailing of joints in steel structure is as much important as detailing of main structural members.
Contractor Magazine
JULY 14, 2014
'In a stunning move on July 10, the U.S. House of Representatives passed an amendment on a voice vote to the 2015 Energy and Water Appropriations Act (H.R. 4923) which would prohibit any federal spending for replacement of inefficient toilets. read more.
Green Building Law Update
JULY 2, 2014
'On July 1st the U.S. Green Building Council released a change to LEED classifying electronic cigarettes as a form of tobacco smoking for the purposes of the smoking prohibitions of the LEED Environmental Quality Prerequisite 2, Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) Control, which is also applicable to LEED v4. Project teams must follow rating system addenda posted before their project’s registration date.
Mr Ethics
JULY 17, 2014
Dear Mr. Ethics, The project architect and I recently prepared a project punchlist. The owner did not participate in the punchlist walkthrough due to a death in the family. She authorized us to proceed in her absence. I think the architect was distracted that day because he did not write some things that to me were clear punchlist items (like raised carpet; droopy copping).
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Construction Business Owner
JULY 23, 2014
'Getting paid on time in the construction industry has always been difficult. One reason is that many construction clients have bad payment records. Working with those clients leads to problems regardless of how organized your collections are.
BD+C
JULY 28, 2014
'BOSTON, MA – A new study released by planning and design firm Sasaki Associates has found that food is a major driver of the American urban experience: 82 percent of urbanites appreciate their city’s culinary offerings, and a new restaurant is the top reason the majority of them (46 percent) would venture to a new part of their city. This is compared to 25 percent of people who are incentivized by a new store and 16 percent by a sporting event.
Green Industry Professionals
JULY 27, 2014
'Things to think about and features to look for when investing in a GPS fleet tracking solution for your landscaping or lawn care company.
Contractor Magazine
JULY 15, 2014
'By Steve Swanson. Skilled trades cannot be outsourced. On-the-job labor is one career that cannot be outsourced. One sure way to lower unemployment is to direct attention back to one of the country’s all time strengths — our skilled trades. If you want to strengthen the middle class and create small businesses, there is no surer way of doing it than investing in our skilled trades. read more.
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Construction Equipment
JULY 7, 2014
'Construction employers added 6,000 workers in June as the industry''s unemployment rate dropped to 8.2 percent, its lowest June level in six years, according to an analysis of new government data by the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC). "The construction industry continues to expand gradually and unevenly," said Ken Simonson, AGC''s chief economist.
Mr Ethics
JULY 17, 2014
Dear Mr. Ethics, The project architect and I recently prepared a project punchlist. The owner did not participate in the punchlist walkthrough due to a death in the family. She authorized us to proceed in her absence. I think the architect was distracted that day because he did not write some things that to me were clear punchlist items (like raised carpet; droopy copping).
Construction Business Owner
JULY 23, 2014
'The Insurance Research Council indicates that roughly 35 percent of workers’ compensation claim dollars are paid to fraudulent claimants. Another study by the National Insurance Crime Bureau states that the total cost of workers’ comp fraud is $7.2 billion per year. Fraudulent claims increase immediate insurance policy costs and long-term rating discounts and modifiers.
BD+C
JULY 11, 2014
'They''re not really LEGOs—they just look like them. Smart Bricks (or S-Bricks for short) are a patent-pending innovation designed by Kite Bricks. Incorporating high-strength concrete, the blocks may make buildings more rapid, cheap and energy-efficient to construct. Like the iconic Danish construction toys, S-Bricks come in a variety of forms for different functions and can all connect together.
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Revit OpEd
JULY 23, 2014
'Going to spend an hour renaming views or sheets? Check out all the worksets for Views and close all user created worksets. Same is true of most things you need to edit en masse. Select them all and make them editable. You ask Revit for permission to work on them once, all together, and Revit doesn''t need to pause every time you interact with something.
Contractor Magazine
JULY 22, 2014
'BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA — Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has signed legislation that will replace the state’s plumbing code effective Jan. 1, 2016, with the International Plumbing Code. The IPC, published by the International Code Council, will replace the Louisiana State Plumbing Code. The legislation also adds IPC, IBC, and IRC plumbing sections to the state’s construction code. read more.
Construction Equipment
JULY 30, 2014
'Construction Equipment magazine’s Frank Raczon, senior editor, was honored by the American Society of Business Publication Editors with a 2014 Gold AZBEE Regional Award for Editorial Excellence of a Product Section/Department for Construction Equipment ’s “Buying File.” The series of three “Buying File” features ran from September through November 2013, and went on to win a Silver National AZBEE Award in the same category.
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