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Offsite vs. Onsite Construction Part 2

Civil + Structural Engineer

The benefits of offsite construction, which comprises the manufacturing, planning, design, fabrication, and assembly of building elements offsite are expansive. The panel of experts below, representing the construction, engineering, and building systems industries, explore and explain the many benefits of this alternative construction method.

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Construction Equation: Knowledge Problems + Data Problems + Management Problems = Outcome Problems

Job Order Contracting

Lack of continuous competent leadership Focus upon command and control versus enabling local expertise and decision-making. Development of a new methodology to optimize building life cycle cost, environmental impacts, and occupant satisfaction. The development of life-cycle costing for buildings. BSI Standards Limited.

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February 2015 newsletter

FDR Safety

Don’t just rely on OSHA’s advice to build a safety program. Don’t just rely on OSHA’s advice to build a safety program. The critical building blocks of a safety program are Job Safety Analyses (JSAs). Then for each potential hazard, the JSA outlines the appropriate PPE and other controls needed to address the hazard.

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2015 Healthcare Construction – Construction Contractor Compliance

Building Information Management

infection control training to all workers on site. The terms Globally Harmonized System (GHS) and Infection Control Risk Assessment (ICRA) are getting focused attention from regulators, business owners, and property managers with new requirements. Pathogen Training. Risk assessment of susceptible patient locations.

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Sound of silence: Specifying the four roles of acoustic ceilings

Construction Specifier

By Gary Madaras Suspended acoustic ceilings are mainstream inside many types of buildings and can serve four main sound-related roles. Therefore, it is important to establish if a ceiling will be implemented into the design and which roles it will take, so the other components of the building can be designed and specified appropriately.

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2015 Healthcare Construction – Construction Contractor Compliance

Building Information Management

infection control training to all workers on site. The terms Globally Harmonized System (GHS) and Infection Control Risk Assessment (ICRA) are getting focused attention from regulators, business owners, and property managers with new requirements. Pathogen Training. Risk assessment of susceptible patient locations.

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2015 – Efficient Construction Delivery – Process, Technology, People, and Knowledge

Building Information Management

reposted and adapted from practicalBIM: 28 Aug 2015 08:14 PM PDT. There is an underlying assumption that a BIM model must become a single unified ‘thing’ (“Integrated Data Environment”), and that all BIM processes must be under the control of one entity. BIM is not A BUNCH OF STANDARDS. practical BIM.