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Anne Glubis Joins Legacy Engineering’s Executive Team as Director of Geotechnical Operations

Civil + Structural Engineer

Her specialties include soils, foundations, construction materials testing and inspections, quality assurance, and quality control management. About Legacy Engineering Founded in 2005 by Jacksonville native John E. Ellis, Legacy Engineering is the largest locally-owned testing firm in the region.

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Raising the bar with G-TAR: Matthews Brothers Engineering

Roads Online

The bitumen sprayer, tack coater, bitumen tanker and combi sprayer/spreader manufacturer was advised that a part supplied for its control systems was set to be discontinued, with the third party set to move from analogue to digit inputs. Shortly after, the idea for the company’s Guaranteed Target Application Rate (G-TAR) was born. Image: MBE.

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Tight Envelope Air Sealing With Aerobarrier Drives Energy Efficiency and More

The Pro Builder

This commitment to excellence is reflected in company values, which emphasize quality, durability, health, and innovation. An Industry Leader In 2005, New Tradition made a commitment to meet or exceed the most stringent standards for energy efficiency.

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Construction Productivity is a Process Problem, Not People: Here’s How Autonomy Helps

Autodesk Construction Cloud

In 2017, McKinsey & Company released a 10-year analysis from 2005 to 2015 that found that construction-labor productivity in the United States hadn’t kept pace with other industries. Since then, the construction industry has grappled with a poor reputation regarding productivity. Now, anyone can curate models—including project engineers.

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Sound isolation code requirements

Construction Specifier

The influence of the acoustic environment on the overall occupant satisfaction is objectively borne out in an analysis of the 2005 American Housing Survey, which found “the most dramatic impact on residential satisfaction comes from hearing neighbors through the floors, walls, or ceiling.” structure-borne (“banging and slamming”).

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VERIFI® In-transit Concrete Management Advances UK Concrete Barrier Projects

GCP Applied Technologies

In January 2005 the United Kingdom’s Highways Agency launched their Smart Motorway Projects, a commitment to replace all life-expired steel barrier systems with concrete on motorways with high traffic volumes, in order to increase safety throughout their road networks. Company: Extrudakerb . Introduction.

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CCCT with Amanda Kaminsky, Director, Sustainable Construction – Americas for Lendlease

CCR Magazine

Informed by piloting and lab testing, solutions were quality-controlled and streamlined for scaled implementation via evolution of existing codes/standards, and creation of new ones. Before and during early stages of BPE, Amanda also led sustainable construction and procurement efforts at The Durst Organization, from 2005-2015.