Construction Equipment

MAY 12, 2020

The American Road and Transportation Builders Association has produced a video that shows contractors how to prevent the spread of infectious diseases such as Covid-19 in work zones. The 7-minute video acknowledges that a work-zone is not a “high-risk” area for the spread of infectious diseases,…

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Safety Services Company

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

OSHA violations are more than just compliance issuesthey put lives at risk and jeopardize your company’s reputation. Prevention Steps: Conduct site inspections to identify all fall risks. Staying ahead with proper respirators mitigates risks. Designate safe zones to prevent collisions between trucks and workers.

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Construction Equipment

DECEMBER 10, 2019

To make construction sites safer this winter, here is a list of safety tips that will lower risks and threats: Planning and hazard assessment Before the winter season arrives, an article in OHSCanada suggests doing a hazard assessment involving management, clients, contractors, and workers.

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Construction Equipment

MAY 25, 2016

Thirty-nine percent of highway contractors reported that motor vehicles had crashed into their construction work zones during the past year, according to the results of a new highway work zone study conducted by the Associated General Contractors of America.

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Construction Specifier

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Whether the motivation is building code compliance, building protection and performance, or insurance premium reductions, it is necessary for facility owners and managers to address flood risk and determine how to protect their facilities. Zones B, C, and X are areas of low to moderate flood risk.

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Construction Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

This includes analyzing factors such as zoning regulations, transportation access, and market demand. After acquiring the property, the developer must design and plan the project, considering factors such as building codes and zoning regulations, the intended use of the property, and the target market.

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Lets Build

APRIL 28, 2023

This approach focuses on dividing each project into smaller zones to plan and schedule work in each of those zones more efficiently based on their constraints, characteristics, and dependencies. This makes it realistic to develop an achievable schedule by considering the unique constraints of each work zone.

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Construction Specifier

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Yet, building in wildland urban interface (WUI) zones continues at a fast pace. WUI zones are areas of transition between unoccupied land and human development, where structures and other human development meet or intermingle with undeveloped wildland or vegetative fuels. 1 Why are people still building, and rebuilding in WUI zones?

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Pro Builder

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Homes in Flood Zones Are Becoming More Expensive. Rising home values and higher-than-average denial rates for home purchase applications are making home purchases more expensive in areas with high flood risks . Similarly, tracts with a 10 percentage point higher share of buildings at risk for flooding in 2021 was associated with a 0.23

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Pro Builder

JUNE 30, 2020

New Study Says Millions More Homes Have Greater Flood Risk. have a high risk of flooding that is not disclosed by federal flood maps. million properties fit into FEMA’s 1% annual flood risk areas, where federal maps only categorized 8.7 cbroderick. Tue, 06/30/2020 - 10:00. million properties. flood maps Monday. Construction.

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The Constructor

MARCH 18, 2012

MINIMISING THE RISK OF CORROSION: The quality and depth of concrete in the cover zone are all important in minimizing the risk of corrosion as shown in fig. However, in situations where these materials are not cured properly there is a risk of increased carbonation.

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Construction Equipment

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

When used as a preconstruction tool, the Traveler's ZoneCheck application will help monitor vibrations and manage the risk of damage. Contractors can have ZoneCheck automatically find their location through geolocation settings or by inputting the address on the website from a mobile device or computer.

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BD+C

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

After a recent successful challenge of the scientific methodology used to redraw the coastal high-hazard zones, the Massachusetts congressional delegation is asking federal officials to put the brakes on new flood zone maps for the Bay State. read more.

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Safety Services Company

MAY 9, 2024

The Hidden Dangers of Electrical Work While most workers must perform electrical work as a fundamental part of the job, they cannot ignore the inherent risks it carries. By identifying potential electrical hazards, contractors can significantly reduce the risks associated with electrical work.

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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

More than half of residential and commercial properties in Houston that are at high or moderate risk of flooding are not included in the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Special Flood Hazard Areas (SFHA), according to CoreLogic.

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BD+C

JULY 23, 2020

North Carolina officials will not rely on FEMA to identify high-risk flood zones. As proof, they say that more than 77% of homes damaged by Hurricane Matthew in 2016 were not located in federally designated flood zones. Instead, the state will strive to compile its own data.

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Green Building Law Update

JUNE 17, 2018

There is little real dispute that given humans take shelter from the climate inside buildings, humans need to design and construct those buildings to be resilient in whatever climatic zones the building is located. Green building is a low risk geoengineering solution to many of the environmental issues of the day.

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Green Building Law Update

MARCH 30, 2015

This is significant because regulating impervious surface on a property, either by establishing a maximum allowable area or a ratio of impervious surface to the total lot area, is a common zoning performance standard used by local governments in Maryland and elsewhere. Other states must follow this lead if we are to save the planet.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Water security risks are increasing and will significantly impact business continuity if left unaddressed, according to the CDP U.S. Even as water risks become more acute, the majority of Standard & Poor’s 500 index (S&P 500) companies facing water risks lack strategic plans to adequately address these risks.

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The Constructor

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

Related posts: MAGNITUDE & INTENSITY OF EARTHQUAKE EARTHQUAKE GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING AND ITS PRACTICES-III-EARTHQUAKE DESTRUCTION How can it be in Seismic zone but not in earthquake zone or near earthquake fault? releases 1000 times more energy than the earthquake of magnitude of 6.2 and 32 times more than the magnitude of 7.2.

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Business Facilities

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Companies are asking themselves in the wake of these catastrophic and costly storms, are we adequately evaluating the risk of natural disasters when deciding where to locate new facilities? This initial GIS screening is the optimal opportunity to incorporate natural disaster risk potential into a site selection evaluation.

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Safety Services Company

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Safe Lifting Practices: 5 P’s to Reduce Risk. Power Zone: The “power zone” or preferred work zone is the area of your body horizontally between your shoulders and vertically between the middle of your thighs and center of your chest.

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The Constructor

AUGUST 10, 2012

5 Extreme Concrete in contact with or buried under aggressive sub-soil / ground water, surface of members in tidal zone, members in direct contact with liquid / solid aggressive chemicals. No Environment Exposure Conditions 1 Mild Concrete surfaces protected against weather or aggressive conditions, except those situated in coastal area.

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Pro Builder

MAY 8, 2023

Each primer focuses on a component of land-use policy and the impact it has on builders and buyers: density, zoning, and development review. Density In many communities, zoning laws restrict the amount of land that can be used for residential purposes, often in the form of minimum lot sizes or density requirements.

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Lets Build

JUNE 24, 2021

Have I integrated zoning into my planning? One of the most common yet crucial mistakes made by project managers, especially in projects that come with a lot of repetition is that they fail to integrate zoning into their planning. Subcontractors need to be able to access each zone (i.e. But you can’t work on everything at once.

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BD+C

OCTOBER 9, 2014

The New York City Department of City Planning (DCP) has released Retrofitting Buildings for Flood Risk , [ www.nyc.gov/retrofitting ] a comprehensive guide for New York City owners of buildings in flood zones. read more.

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Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

MAY 22, 2014

It places extra emphasis on spurring development and private-sector job growth in new Garden State Growth Zones (GSGZ) identified in the legislation as the four lowest median family income cities in the state: Camden, Trenton, Passaic and Paterson. The new law builds on Christie’s commitment to revitalizing New Jersey’s cities.

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Green Building Law Update

JULY 12, 2015

Often legal opinions arising from the purchase of real estate involve assurance that the improvements exist accordance with applicable zoning, subdivision and other land use laws and regulations. Committing that a project will be LEED certifiable versus certified by GBCI increases certainty and lowers risk.

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Green Building Law Update

JULY 12, 2015

Often legal opinions arising from the purchase of real estate involve assurance that the improvements exist accordance with applicable zoning, subdivision and other land use laws and regulations. Committing that a project will be LEED certifiable versus certified by GBCI increases certainty and lowers risk.

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Construction Cost Estimating

JUNE 21, 2011

Types of risks in construction. Risk in construction is fully integrated with every facets of construction life cycle. Construction risk may put a threat to an organization’s success and debar to achieve the project objectives in terms of time, cost, quality, safety and environmental sustainability. Technical Risks.

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Construction Marketing Ideas

MAY 5, 2016

I rationally decided to stay far away from the actual war zones — though folks at home in Canada thought I was a daring risk taker. ” “That’s what you call innovation and risk taking,” he told The SMPS Marketer. Yet I also understand the reason for this risk-averse behaviour.

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ENR Construction

JUNE 7, 2023

Need to address construction crew safety gains more state attention following a March 22 crash in Baltimore that killed six workers

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Lets Build

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Apart from mapping, drones provide a cost-effective measure for overseeing work zone safety and theft prevention. They can, for example, perform a visual inspection of high-risk areas like tall buildings, smokestacks, and partially completed bridges. Uptick in the equipment rental.

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Wolgast Corporation

JULY 24, 2023

Zoning – oftentimes, a property can be rezoned (trickier in a residential area) but having to rezone can add time and expense. By using these resources, property owners, researchers, and communities can make informed decisions, mitigate risks, identify opportunities, and preserve our shared history.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

DECEMBER 31, 2021

And with good reason: the right insights can improve everything from project cost and timeline accuracy to reducing the risk of lawsuits and disputes, and even winning more business. Or implementing new safety training to mitigate worker injury risk You can then use that knowledge to anticipate and better manage risk for future jobs.

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Business Facilities

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZs) Program was created in 1934 with the goal of helping businesses in the U.S. According to the National Association of Foreign Trade Zones (NAFTZ), in 2014, goods exported directly from U.S. The value of shipments into zones totaled nearly $660 billion, compared with $798 billion the previous year.

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Construction Marketing Ideas

DECEMBER 12, 2012

All of these expansions have key elements of reasoning behind them: Risk is relatively low. The expansions are responsive in that we have the right combination of customer interest, employee support and (perhaps most important) limited capital or operational risk. You don’t want to rush wildly into new things without validation.

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