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Characteristics of Strategic Collaboration and Efficient Construction Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

Common data environment (glossary of terms and definitions, locally researched detailed unit price cost data). Lower project related cost growth. Projects completed at or under budgeted cost. Reduced project related cost growth per change order. Zero costs associated with disputes and claims. Shared boundaries.

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Protecting sensitive sites: Noise and vibration rules

Construction Specifier

By Todd Busch Photo dhvstockphoto/courtesy bigstockphoto.com In the United States and Canada, three places are uniquely regulated by government authorities for construction noise and/or vibration. The regulations require studies before construction activity and/or noise and vibration monitoring during construction.

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Making headway: what to do about tower crane safety?

Practical Law Construction

With the scarcity of land and new residential or office developments literally growing upwards, cranes are an everyday sight in urban areas. For example: In the Battersea crane collapse in 2006 (in which two men were tragically killed), the crane operators used the manual for a different model of crane to the crane in operation.