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Will Summer Bring Energy Efficiency Challenges This Year?

Construction Daily News

Many construction industry professionals are anticipating 2024 climate change and how it will affect the sector. Naturally, those events raise questions about what the future will entail. Extreme weather events last year amounted to over $1 billion in losses and 464 deaths. Last year, the U.S.

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Safety Measures in Marine Projects

CCR Magazine

This includes shipbuilding, port construction, offshore oil and gas exploration, land reclamation, and underwater construction. In many circumstances, marine projects are critical for the development of commercial endeavours in various sectors, including energy, tourism, fishing, transportation, communications and trade.

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Making headway: what to do about tower crane safety?

Practical Law Construction

With yet another tower crane collapse (this time on a retirement living project in Kent – thankfully no one was injured), we must ask ourselves “is the current crane safety regime in the UK adequate?” However, working in densely populated areas also means that there can be catastrophic consequences in the event of failure.

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Pennsylvania Incentives and Workforce Development Guide

Business Facilities

The updated Pennsylvania incentives guide is brought to you by Real Street Expo , a new event sponsored by Business Facilities and Today’s Facility Manager magazines. Funds may be used to acquire land, conduct environmental assessment and remediation and perform demolition. Funding is variable.

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The Start of Celebration: the 2023 Yearbook of Engineering Achievement

Civil + Structural Engineer

This issue of C+S Magazine contains the third iteration of the Yearbook of Engineering Achievement, and, as has been the case in the last two contests, these projects represent the best of the best in the AEC industry. The project features a new 1.8

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Top 5 Mistakes Contractors Make during the Prequalification Process and How to Fix Them

Safety Services Company

A LinkedIn Article noted that 35% of project defaults are due to issues identified in the prequalification process but ignored! Prioritizing safety and compliance is a critical step that helps contractors land more jobs. silica exposure, equipment safety, road risks, or fall prevention), we can’t rely on dated practices.

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Industry Focus: Global Aerospace Production Soars To New Heights

Business Facilities

combat role in Afghanistan are resulting in fewer purchases of military equipment from defense contractors. The Deloitte study, which is the most comprehensive look at the aerospace/defense sector, projects overall growth of about five percent this year, matching the trends recorded in 2012 and 2013.