Commercial Building: Page 290
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Green Globes system makes inroad as Defense Department says 'OK'
The government's biggest building owner will allow facilities to choose Green Globes as well as LEED for environmental rating of projects.
By Ron Gallagher • Dec. 18, 2013 -
Praise on the passing of paving patriarch Alan Curtis
Allan Heydorn of Pavement Maintenance & Reconstruction magazine looks at the contributions of the late Curtis.
By Ron Gallagher • Dec. 17, 2013 -
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Careful collaboration before shovels hit dirt is key to a successful project, experts say.
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Mirrored net reflects well on new New York subway station design
Part of a new subway station and retail complex in Manhattan is a giant, cylindrical net to which construction workers affixed reflecting panels.
By Ron Gallagher • Dec. 17, 2013 -
Feds join local, state authorities in Denver construction fire probe
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives entered the investigation at the request of fire officials, who have not determined what turned the job site into a giant torch.
By Ron Gallagher • Dec. 17, 2013 -
Owners, developers have a reason to drive use of BIM: Their money
The potential to cut supply costs and weed out expensive changes before they happen are two reasons for owners to push the use of BIM with architects and contractors.
By Ron Gallagher • Dec. 16, 2013 -
Construction employment behind the curve in economic recovery
Total jobs in the U.S. may be back to a pre-recession level in mid-2014, given recent progress, but construction is far behind that curve.
By Ron Gallagher • Dec. 16, 2013 -
Researchers testing non-invasive way to check steel-cable corrosion
At the University of Buffalo, engineering students are in the third of three phases of testing for a technique that allows tests of tensioned cables without drilling into concrete.
By Ron Gallagher • Dec. 16, 2013 -
Human eyes needed inside Seattle boring machine to demystify difficulties
It will take human divers, working not in water but at higher atmospheric pressures underground, to climb into Bertha the boring machine, which has ground to a halt.
By Ron Gallagher • Dec. 16, 2013 -
Denver residential site burns in fire visible for miles
A fire at a partially built multifamily housing building in Glendale lit up the sky and forced evacuation of neighboring apartments.
By Ron Gallagher • Dec. 15, 2013 -
La. trims $3.7B from I-49 project, cites lack of 'fairy godmother' funds
The state cannot look to Washington for road funding anymore, the state treasurer says, so its DOT found changes to cut the $5.1 billion plans.
By Ron Gallagher • Dec. 15, 2013 -
Construction equipment purchases will decline through 2014, report says
Investment in equipment by all business is expected to rise next year, but construction equipment appears to have had its boom earlier this year.
By Ron Gallagher • Dec. 15, 2013 -
Construction materials prices show surprising stability
In November, the overall price of construction materials fell 0.5%, putting the year-over-year increase at 1.1%.
By Ron Gallagher • Dec. 15, 2013 -
A basic Marine principle makes good construction company advice
The tenet is that every Marine is a rifleman no matter what else he or she does, and it's good for everyone in the firm to keep a hand in the basics of your business.
By Ron Gallagher • Dec. 13, 2013 -
Report: Tornado Alley needs building codes like hurricane areas
The National Institute of Standards and Technology explored what could be done to mitigate a disaster like the EF-5 twister that hit Joplin, Mo., in 2011.
By Ron Gallagher • Dec. 12, 2013 -
Cracked concrete, joint leaks found in new Va. river tunnel
A second Midtown Tunnel being built next to the existing one between Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va., will need repairs before the state will accept it.
By Ron Gallagher • Dec. 12, 2013 -
Insurer sees continued construction growth if economy cooperates
Euler Hermes, an international insurer, expects home building to keep growing — if loan rates do not jump — as will commercial, but at a slower pace.
By Ron Gallagher • Dec. 12, 2013 -
Court rulings put high-speed rail funding squarely on California's plate
If the state wants its first, $30-billion piece of a passenger line to be built, it has to show a judge it has a real plan for getting all the money.
By Ron Gallagher • Dec. 12, 2013 -
Executives tell FMI low productivity a looming issue in nonresidential construction
Workers who maintained heavier loads during the recession may be nearing burnout.
By Ron Gallagher • Dec. 11, 2013 -
Minn. governor may propose $975M public construction program
Gov. Mark Dayton is due to send lawmakers a plan next month, and he says he is thinking bigger than before about a program to be financed by borrowing.
By Ron Gallagher • Dec. 11, 2013 -
Being a sustainable builder carries some special risks and challenges
You will be cheered for building green, but there are potential problems that conventional builders will never know.
By Ron Gallagher • Dec. 11, 2013 -
BIM is making headway, but data mobility has arrived
Building information modeling tends to be used by architects and large contractors, but field access to current data by almost everyone is the state of the art.
By Ron Gallagher • Dec. 11, 2013 -
Twin Cities developer gets go-ahead for project next to new Vikings stadium
Minneapolis told Ryan Cos. it can knock down the 90-year-old headquarters of the Star Tribune newspaper as part of plans for a five-block project.
By Ron Gallagher • Dec. 10, 2013 -
Volvo is buying off-road hauler operation from Terex
Volvo Construction Equipment gets Terex's Scottish factory and U.S. distribution operations, adding five rigid haulers and three articulated models to its product line.
By Ron Gallagher • Dec. 10, 2013 -
Scientist sees low risk to public from development on contaminated Baltimore parcel
Beatty Development Group LLC is planning to build on a site on the city's Inner Harbor where a protective cap keeps chromium in place.
By Ron Gallagher • Dec. 10, 2013 -
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An added risk for construction workers in Oakland: Being robbed
It's hardly an epidemic, but four times in the past few weeks definitely sounds like someone is targeting the trades.
By Ron Gallagher • Dec. 10, 2013
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