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RESIDENTIAL BUILDING SITE PLANNING

The Constructor

Civic services such as water supply, drainage sewers, electric lines, telephone lines, etc. The requirements of site for buildings with different occupancies are different. The site should command a good view of landscape such a hill, river, lake, etc. should be very near to the selected site so as to obtain their services with no extra cost.

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Super sewer contractors safe from Thames Water crisis

Construction Enquirer

Some of the industry’s biggest names including Ferrovial, Laing O’Rourke, BAM Nuttall,Morgan Sindall, Balfour Beatty,Costain, Vinci and Bachy Soletanche are working on the super sewer project. Thames Water former chief executive Sarah Bentley left suddenly this week as the firm fights for its future amid restructuring plans.

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Contractor wanted for Super Sewer testing phase

Construction Enquirer

London’s new super sewer client Tideway is set to start the hunt for a contractor to maintain thousands of infrastructure assets through the project’s performance and reliability testing phase.

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Renewing the healing role of public parks

BD+C

Disease prevention has had a large impact on public space planning and design throughout history. Typhoid, smallpox and cholera epidemics in the 1800s brought forth the sanitary movement creating municipal sewer systems, indoor plumbing and wider, straighter streets that changed the way much of the world lives.

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5-Year, $3.7-Billion Chicago Capital Projects Plan Clears Finance Committee, Headed for Council Vote

ENR Construction

The city of Chicago's new five-year capital plan calls for road, sewer and Lake Michigan and Chicago river work, but requires $1.4 billion in new borrowing for the first two years alone.

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Prepping For Reentry: 8 Facility Maintenance Steps For Reopening Commercial Properties

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Across the country, states are in various phases of reentry and preparing their plans to roll back stay-at-home orders that were put in place to help mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Flush sewer lines and drains to make sure valves and seals are working.

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Green infrastructure prominent in Akron, Ohio's sewer plans

BD+C

City officials in Akron, Ohio want to prevent stormwater from entering its combined sewer system through the use of green infrastructure. Among the features being considered are the use of soils and plants as well as man-made structures such as cisterns and permeable pavement. ( [link] ). Codes Codes and Standards'

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