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OSHA imposes fine in roof worker's heat-related death; contractor is contesting fine
A temporary employee of Dayton, Ohio,-based A.H. Sturgill Roofing Inc. was on a roof on an 82-degree day last summer when he suffered heat stroke.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 26, 2013 -
Lighting standard proposes quicker reduction, shutoff in more building spaces
Revisions proposed for automatic lighting standards for buildings would have auto-reduction and auto-off lighting in more places to reduce energy usage.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 26, 2013 -
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Careful collaboration before shovels hit dirt is key to a successful project, experts say.
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Rule reduces review of some emergency road, bridge repairs
A new ruling by federal highway officials aims to speed up environmental reviews of road and bridge projects when the president or a governor has declared an emergency.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 26, 2013 -
Concrete industry touts hard roads as a gas-saver
You may have inflated your tires a bit extra to get better mileage, and now an MIT research center associated with the concrete industry says harder roads are better, too.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 25, 2013 -
Rendering of Google headquarters shows a worker-to-worker web
Google's latest foray into building a new headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., would have a collection of bent buildings that form courtyards, are connected and put every worker within 150 seconds of every other worker.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 25, 2013 -
Steel construction industry looks for advice on melding BIM, existing guidelines
The American Institute of Steel Construction wants to blend its existing guide to best practices with the growing use of building information modeling to drive projects.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 25, 2013 -
Boyer moves from Shaw Environmental to lead Atkins' North American arm
The England-based engineering and consulting firm has hired Joe Boyer to replace the retiring L. Dean Fox as CEO of the North American subsidiary of the company.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 25, 2013 -
Turner technique for transit tunnel: Expand, pour, collapse, move on
In Seattle, the company will use a framework that can be inserted into a tunnel and expanded to allow for pouring concrete, then collapsed back down and moved ahead for another pour.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 25, 2013 -
Dutch scientists announce self-healing concrete
In the wake of Korean scientists' devising a self-activated coating, Dutch scientists announced a bacterial mix-in patch which activates when water gets in the small cracks in concrete.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 22, 2013 -
The big thinking behind designing tiny apartments
The architect who won a contest to design a New York City micro apartment shares some insights on living large in a small space.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 22, 2013 -
Defense Dept. report: Green buildings save money
The National Research Council says the Defense Department is on the right track in requiring LEED Silver or better for new construction and large renovations.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 22, 2013 -
Retrieved from Starbucks on February 24, 2013
New line of modular Starbucks shops won't have chairs
The king of the coffee shops has a new look of about 500 square feet that will use local materials and will not offer seating.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 22, 2013 -
In R.I., there's a chance to have a 19th-century home by living at the mall
The nation's first indoor shopping mall – built in 1828 – fell victim to the 21st-century recession, but it's being reborn as mostly tiny apartments above small shops.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 21, 2013 -
Nice color on the polished concrete – but could you change that red, please?
Grand Prospect Corp. overcame several challenges in grinding and polishing concrete floors in the remodeling of Ted Stevens Airport, not least of which is a last-minute design change.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 21, 2013 -
Housing starts down, but builders say single-family is strong and permits are up
January federal data for housing starts shows the total fell 8.5% from December's pace, but the National Association of Home Builders lays that to normal multifamily volatility, not weakness.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 21, 2013 -
Engineer: Steel-laced concrete beams are development of seismic proportions
After working on a 24-story Seattle apartment building using steel-reinforced concrete to reduce the use of rebar, engineer Cary Kopczynski claims the new technique has arrived.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 20, 2013 -
New coating holds promise of self-repairing concrete
Researchers in Korea say they have developed a coating for concrete that carries micro-capsules of patching material that break open when concrete cracks.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 20, 2013 -
Rising materials prices in Jan. outpaced falling ones for 0.7% net increase
Construction materials pulling prices up out-muscled those pulling the average down last month for a net rise of 0.7%.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 20, 2013 -
Be ready if/when a construction accident happens
Nobody wants it but everybody should expect it and be ready with a plan and procedures to follow before an accident happens.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 20, 2013 -
Tunneling robot analyzes work, saves money and time
Edmonton, Alberta has tested a robot that tracks a tunnel's alignment in real time and generates as-built drawings, finding it to be a major time-saver.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 19, 2013 -
Commercial construction outlook: Better flat than backsliding
The backlog of signed commercial construction deals stuck at eight months from the third to the fourth quarters of 2012, and ABC expects that to remain the same through the first part of this year.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 19, 2013 -
Tips on how to win and keep community colleges as commercial clients
Community colleges are in great demand as displaced workers try to retrain, so it's worth hearing how to get and keep growing clients.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 19, 2013 -
ASCE group is developing building codes to cope with tsunamis
A group of engineers from the West Coast of the U.S. are working on codes to encourage designs that can better withstand the punishment of pounding water.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 19, 2013 -
Midst Pakistan's problems, perhaps the world's tallest building
A $45 billion investment deal for Pakistan appears to include construction of a tower that backers say will stretch above the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the current record holder.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 17, 2013 -
You can't buy what satisfied customers say about you for free
Treating customers well and making right any problems regardless of warranty gives you an advertiser for whom you could never pay enough.
By Ron Gallagher • Feb. 15, 2013
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