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STV Helps City of Columbia, South Carolina, Win $204 Million FRA Grant for Corridor Improvement

Civil + Structural Engineer

COLUMBIA, SC STV, a leading professional services firm that plans, designs and manages infrastructure projects across North America, today announced it has played a key role in securing a $204 million Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) Railroad Crossing Elimination (RCE) Grant for the City of Columbia, South Carolina.

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Cintec in North America Announces their Cintec Anchoring System was used in helping Repair the Helmsley Building 230 Park Avenue, NYC

Civil + Structural Engineer

The Problem : By 2009, the building had begun to show its age. The building owners/management had inquired as to replacement cost of these Terra-cotta Brackets and had been quoted prices exceeding 16 Million dollars.

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Characteristics of Strategic Collaboration and Efficient Construction Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

The characteristics of strategic collaboration and efficient construction project delivery are discussed below. Mandatory early and ongoing collaboration for each project. Integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery processes and team. Performance-centric reward system. Lower project related cost growth.

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Credible Construction Estimate Core Elements

Job Order Contracting

To meet their responsibilities as stakeholders of the built environment ( facilities and other built structures ), public sector owners need to have the ability create credible construction cost estimate for ALL repair, renovation, maintenance (FSRM), and new build projects.

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Revit OpEd: BIM Coordinator for Civil 3D and Revit

Revit OpEd

It allows a Civil 3D user to define the shared coordinate system to be passed on to a Revit project. Note that it uses a file formatted as ACCSXML (Autodesk Consulting Coordinate System eXtensible Markup Language). Check it out, might help your next project? I just set up Shared Coordinates on a project the regular way.

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Why Projects Fail

Job Order Contracting

A great deal of research has been done one why projects fail. Instead, most of the performance variations are caused by the system, of which those people are but a part. People can’t perform better than the system allows W. People can’t perform better than the system allows W.

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Revit OpEd: Cool Lego Assembly Line

Revit OpEd

Comments: Comments are moderated to manage spamming. Any reference to Revit, Revit Architecture, Revit MEP or Revit Structure on this site is made acknowledging this ownership. In-Place Massing and Project Orientation Inequity. ► 2009. ► December 2009. (16). ► November 2009. (23).