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3 Reasons to Reach Out to Your General Contractor During the Commercial Construction Process

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We explained to the client that as a national contractor that manages projects across the country, we have a wealth of historical pricing data we can use to create market-specific order of magnitude budgets – top-level rough estimates of costs that are typically used to determine a project’s feasibility in the early planning stages. .

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Can metal lathes be made safe?

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The article went on to offer the following ideas: “How can these risks be minimised? Those same innovations are often not feasible for retrofit – that’s the reason for my passion around the concepts of “Design-in Safety” and “Prevention thru Design” (PtD). I agree – partially.

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Shopping Mall Development Trends: Are Ghost Kitchens the Answer for Vacant Mall Space?

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CRE developers and owners are continuing to think creatively about filling vacant shopping mall space, and recently the idea of bringing in “ghost kitchens” to fill obsolete retail square footage has started to gain traction.

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Germ of an Idea

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Grace a contract to explore the feasibility of replacing uranium in nuclear weapons with thorium, a radioactive element previous used in old hurricane lamps (before anyone realized how dangerous that was, like radium in wrist-watch dials). The post Germ of an Idea appeared first on Business Facilities. Far West U.S. - Mid Atlantic U.S.

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How To Create Effective Safety Signage

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The FDR TaBRA process includes determination of feasible risk reduction for the specific machine and task. Below is my idea of a good safety sign. The vast majority of high risk (a combination of both probability and severity) result from slips/trips/falls, strains and sprains and other hazards not protected by lockout or guarding.

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Good Safety Signage

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The FDR TaBRA process includes determination of feasible risk reduction for the specific machine and task. Below is my idea of a good safety sign. The vast majority of high risk (a combination of both probability and severity) result from slips/trips/falls, strains and sprains and other hazards not protected by lockout or guarding.

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AEC inspections are the key to financially viable office to residential adaptive reuse projects

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AEC inspections are the key to financially viable office to residential adaptive reuse projects 0 dbarista Fri, 06/14/2024 - 08:45 Multifamily Housing About a year ago our industry was abuzz with an idea that seemed like a one-shot miracle cure for both the shockingly high rate of office vacancies and the worsening housing shortage.