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Announcing ISM’s 9th Lizzi Scholarship Winner

Civil + Structural Engineer

Her experience includes onsite wastewater treatment design, deep and shallow foundation sizing and design, retaining wall design, emergency foundation stabilization design, forensic assessments and analysis, subsurface exploration and environmental impact assessments for commercial, institutional and residential properties.

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Reverse Callback Templating - Perl.com

Construction Dive

The Perl community has produced many fine systems for doing just this. While there are many systems, they largely fall within two execution models, pipeline and callback (as noted by Perrin Harkins in Choosing a Templating System ). Foundation News. December 2003 (4). November 2003 (7). October 2003 (8).

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Lean methodology is ignored by the construction sector

Job Order Contracting

Little benefit would be achieved by attempting to directly apply the Toyota Production System (TPS), or similar approaches to the AEC sector, exclusive of as a general background learning exercise. The Foundations of lean construction. An introduction to building procurement systems. Bayfield, R., & Roberts, P. Bramble, B.

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Characteristics of Strategic Collaboration and Efficient Construction Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

Communication and knowledge exchanges and growth are enabled by an underlying common programmatic process for every project and activity that eases knowledge transfers and is dependent upon strength of relationships between individuals and the type of knowledge exchanged (Reagans & McEvily, 2003; Hansen, 1999). Russell Sage Foundation.

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Skilled labor shortage amplifies need to boost vocational education

The Korte Company

And yet, school systems still devalue vocational education as a matter of policy. Those totals then stagnated somewhat until healthy growth resumed in 2003. Combine that with an education system that no longer reliably funnels young workers into these good-paying jobs and the result is the severe shortage we see today.

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Big Data, BIM, Cloud Computing, and Efficient Life-cycle Management of the Built Environment

Building Information Management

In 2010 the amount of data collected since the dawn of humanity all the way up until 2003 was equivalent to the volume produced every two days in the new age of information. . Eric Schmidt, Chairman of Google. In point of fact, technology, process, people, and ontology must be viewed as inseparable and ever changing.

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Big Data, BIM, Cloud Computing, and Efficient Life-cycle Management of the Built Environment

Building Information Management

In 2010 the amount of data collected since the dawn of humanity all the way up until 2003 was equivalent to the volume produced every two days in the new age of information. . Eric Schmidt, Chairman of Google. In point of fact, technology, process, people, and ontology must be viewed as inseparable and ever changing.