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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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Are Green Building Rating Systems Really Sustainable?

Natural Building

If all new buildings were “sustainable” by today’s standards , their cumulative impacts would destroy the earth, unless population and consumption rates were magically reversed, not just reduced. Instead of quantifying impacts and sustainability outcomes, green building organizations created prescriptive rules, point systems and thresholds.

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Industry Focus: Food Processing – The Process Of Consistency

Business Facilities

The various combinations of transport are useful for materials import and product export. When shipping on land, Interstate 40 runs from North Carolina on the east to California on the west and runs straight through the middle of Arkansas. percent between 2008 and 2018. Arkansas’s labor force is nearly 1.5

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Public Law 111-308 – Federal Buildings Personnel Training Act – FBPTA – CORE COMPETENCIES

Building Information Management

the bill is supposed to cut federal government energy costs and train the federal building maintenance work force in the use of high performance technologies for energy conservation in federal buildings.”. Sys tem Des ign: We developed a system that focused on the highest impact core competencies common to every agency -­? Technology.