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Henry Construction crashes into administration

Construction Enquirer

Insolvency experts from FRP Advisory took control of the London-based residential tower builder yesterday evening. Set up by his father William Henry in 1976 as a concrete frame contractor, Mark Henry took over running the business in 2002, growing the business into a design and build contractor lifting revenue from £20m to £140m.

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WordPress Settings API PHP Class ? It was never been easier.

Construction Dive

December 2011. October 2011. February 2011. January 2011. So I came up with a very simple PHP class that builds your options panel with a simple file without extra hassle. We are going to build two array here. ???????????. ???????. ???????. ?????. ???????. ????. ?????. September 2012. August 2012.

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Writing Facades on Legacy Code | Virtuous Code

Construction Dive

Currently whenever an administrator clicks the "new application form" button, the controller code which creates the new form does it something like this: form = Form.create!(:name The tests for this logic (which is all contained in controllers) have to duplicate all of this setup in order to exercise the controllers with realistic data.

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Productive Construction – Traits of Collaboration

Job Order Contracting

Based upon the above, why would anyone be surprised by the lack of productivity and rampant economic and environmental waste endemic to public sector facilities repair, renovation, maintenance, and new builds? The Effects of Building Information Modeling on Construction Site Productivity. Integrated Project Delivery: A Guide (1st ed.).

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Toll Brothers City Living® and Daiwa House Announce Joint Venture to Develop Waterfront High-Rise Condominium Community on New Jersey’s Gold Coast

Civil + Structural Engineer

Vista Pointe represents a rare opportunity to build a luxury waterfront community with outstanding amenities and unparalleled views of Manhattan. Since its formation in 2003, Toll Brothers City Living has completed 45 condominium buildings totaling over 7,200 residences.

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Revit OpEd: Reference Planes and Wall Closure

Revit OpEd

Control Wall’s Material Return. A door or window family has the ability to control the return of materials (i.e. The exterior and interior materials can be controlled separately. A single door family is controlling the various conditions shown below. Builds and Updates. ► 2011. Newer Post.

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Reverse Callback Templating - Perl.com

Construction Dive

To handle this in HTML::Template, you would generally build a nested data structure of anonymous arrays and hashes, and then process it against nested directives in the template. Template::Recall logic remains in the code, you would build a nested loop structure in Perl that calls the appropriate sections. December 2011 (1).