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Current and Emergent Technologies Give Contractors a Competitive Edge Contractors are increasingly adopting new technologies to give themselves an edge over the competition. According to a recent study from USG Corp. and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,  74% of contractors  expect to adopt advanced technology within the next three years. The majority of them are doing so to increase labor productivity. What kinds of technologies are these contractors adopting? Here are some of the most common current and emerging trends, whether construction firms are looking to embrace tried-and-true efficiency boosters or explore the cutting edge of construction technology. Current Technologies Some of the most common current technologies include: Building Information Modeling Using the  building information modeling (BIM)  process can help contractors on larger construction projects more efficiently plan their projects and keep them organized. The BIM process uses 3D mo...

Can Construction Firms Meet the Demands of New Law Enforcement Projects? Upcoming public sector opportunities can be found in almost every area of the public sector marketplace. But, at the moment, the sheer number of upcoming opportunities related to law enforcement facilities is enough to make one ponder. Has every incarceration facility become obsolete all at once? Have local and state officials all decided to upgrade jails, prisons, and justice centers at the same time for some reason? Are there enough experienced construction firms ready to meet the demand? Although most would think of law enforcement projects as being small, that’s not necessarily the case. Not only are hundreds of individual projects extremely large, but many upcoming projects also are being designed to consolidate law enforcement, fire, and emergency personnel. Those projects will definitely be large, and many are significant enough to catch the interest of private sector investors. Officials in New Yor...

5 Ways to Keep Your Crew Safe During Roadway Projects Safety is always the number one priority in any construction project. Anyone that tells you differently hasn't been in the business long enough. In construction, a safe site is a happy and productive one. At the end of the day, ensuring everyone's safety will keep employee morale up, costs down, and ensure deadlines are met efficiently. It's best to think of safety as the umbrella that every other component of a job falls under. The principles of safety can be complex when you break them down, but there are ways to simplify the goal of a safe and friendly job site. Create a Pervasive Culture of Safety Safety isn't just a checkbox to tick off of a checklist tucked away in a Manager's office. It should be an ingrained component to your construction company's culture and ethos. The first step to ensuring safe working conditions is to create a company culture that puts safety first at all times and never ...

5 Best Practices for Communicating During Construction Emergencies When it comes to high-risk work like construction and manufacturing, crises are bound to arise. Employees can find themselves in hazardous situations with no easy means of communicating their peril to other workers. In warehouses or large jobsites, this can be especially dangerous as some workers might find themselves facing an emergency situation without a nearby point-of-contact. That’s why it’s essential construction managers implement an effective safety communication protocol. Ensuring a streamlined communication protocol is in place during emergencies can make sure all employees stay informed and prepared for when disaster strikes – be it an injury, natural disaster, or other unexpected event. Equip Employees With Radios Most construction managers equip their employees with some sort of portable mobile device. Often, this device is a cellphone. While cellphones are effective for standard communication, ...

The Behr 2020 Color Trends Palettes are Here The 3 collections of 15 colors offer enough variety to work with all design styles from modern to traditional. Unlike other paint color companies, the palettes were created for use in both home and work spaces. According to Erika Woelfel, vice president of color and creative services at Behr, “2020 marks the start of a new decade, and with that comes a desire for balance—both at home and at work,” she said. “The new collection of 15 trending hues encompasses themes of wellness and wellbeing, connected experiences, inviting environments, and deliberate color stories.”

Lighting Ideas – This Modern Sconce Doubles As Wall Art The design of the sconce allows the indirect LED illumination to be reflected on a wall or ceiling from a prism-shaped reflector that hovers over the surface on thin rods extended in tension from each of the three triangular corners.

India’s 2nd Largest Railway Over Bridge to be Inaugurated on September 30th The  Indian Railways  has completed the construction of India’s 2 nd  lar gest  railway over bridge (RoB), the giant four-lane  cable-stayed  railway over bridge at Burdwan Junction in West Bengal. The projecte will be thrown open to public and inaugurated on September 30 th  by Union Minister Piyush Goyal. The work on the 188.43 metre cable-stayed RoB began in 2012. Besides having 1.5-metre-wide footpaths on each of the sides parallel to the lanes, India’s 2 nd  largest railway over bridge has 27.7 metres of width to accommodate vehicles on four lanes.

Preparation and Characterization of Ultra-Lightweight Foamed Concrete Incorporating Lightweight Aggregates 1Building Materials and Construction Chemistry, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany 2Structural Engineering Department, Mansoura University, Elgomhouria St., Mansoura, Egypt 3Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sejong University, Korea 4Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Poland Increasing interest is nowadays being paid to improving the thermal insulation of buildings in order to save energy and reduce ecological problems. Foamed concrete has unique characteristics and considerable potential as a promising material in construction applications. It is produced with a wide range of dry densities, between 600 and 1600 kg/m3. However, at a low density below 500 kg/m3, it tends to be unstable in its fresh state while exhibiting high drying shrinkage in its hardened state. In this study, lightweight aggrega...

19 Bidders show interest for Jewar airport; development work expected to commence in 2020 A total of 19 bidders, including GMR, Reliance and Adani group, have shown interest for the development of  Noida International Greenfield Airport at Jewar  in Gautam Budh Nagar district. The development work of the  airport  is expected to commence in 2020 and the first phase will be completed by 2023. The cabinet of Uttar Pradesh have approved the amendment in the bid document prepared by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and authorised the chief minister for approval in amendments, if needed, in future. The minister said that the development work of the first runway of the airport is likely to start in 2023. The Gautam Buddh Nagar administration acquired and transferred 83 hectares of land from two villages to the  Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA)  on Thursday for the proposed Jewar airport. As much as 81.5 hectares was acquired from Ro...

Narendra Modi remotely inaugurated Gandhi Solar Park with 193 solar panels Prime Minister Narendra Modi remotely inaugurated the Gandhi  Solar Park  with 193 solar panels, each representing a member of the multilateral body, at the UN Headquarters during the  Gandhi@150  commemorative event to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi and mark India’s global leadership in renewable  energy . During Inauguration, Mr. Modi said, “Whether it is climate change or terrorism or selfishness in public life, Gandhiji’s ideals are the guiding light for us when it comes to protecting humanity. I believe the path shown by Gandhiji will lead to a better world”. The 50 kilowatt hour (kWh) roof-top Gandhi Solar Park was built at a cost of US $1 million. With each panel powered to reach the max of 50 KWn of generation power, the park’s annual output is 86,244 KWh. This equals 61 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide, 30,242 kg of coal burned and carbon sequestered f...

Best Project, Rail: Doha Metro Red Line South Elevated & At Grade Doha Metro Red Line South Elevated & At Grade   Doha, Qatar  Best Project Owner  Qatar Railways Co. Design Firm  UN Studios Contractor  FCC Construcción For the opening stage of an ambitious metro system development project planned to unify all of the railway networks in Qatar by 2030, Madrid-based FCC Construcción built the south portion of one of three lines in the 85-kilometer-long first phase of the program, and three of the first phase’s stations. The system will link the Doha Metro, the Lusail Tram and the Long Distance network into one integrated system and let passengers easily transfer between lines and connect to rail lines in neighboring countries as well, creating the region’s first fully integrated rail system. The infrastructure development program is in response to a rapid increase in Qatar’s wealth and population. The work undertaken by FCC has been to bui...

Award of Merit, Government Building: New U.S. Consulate Compound in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico New U.S. Consulate Compound  Nuevo Laredo, Mexico Award of Merit Owner  U.S. Dept. of State—Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations Design Firm  Page Contractor  BL Harbert International Civil Engineer  KPFF Consulting Engineers Structural Engineer  Ehlert Bryan Inc. MEP Engineer  Mason & Hanger (formerly Hankins & Anderson) Set in a residential neighborhood, the new consulate compound is small at just 5.6 acres, but it contains seven buildings that were carefully designed to minimize scale and provide a high level of security for employees and visitors. Jobsite security was also a concern, because the construction site was in one of the most dangerous cities in Mexico. Emergency action plans were established in response to shootings within the city, and the site was shut down several times due to gunfire outside the compound’s walls. A bullet ev...

Award of Merit, Cultural: The Statue of Unity The Statue of Unity    Kevadia Colony, Gujarat, India Award of Merit Owner  Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Ltd. Design Firm  Larsen & Toubro Ltd.—EDRC EPC Contractor  Larsen & Toubro Ltd. Architect  Michael Graves Architecture & Design Civil, Structural & MEP Engineer  Meinhardt India Pvt. Ltd. Project Management   Consultant  Turner International Consultants  Eversendai Construction Pvt. Ltd.; Woods Bagot Rising 182 meters above the banks of the river Narmada in India, the Statue of Unity is the tallest such structure ever built. Constructed in just 33 months, the iconic depiction of Sardar Patel—India’s first deputy prime minister—was designed to endure wind speeds up to 112 miles per hour and earthquakes measuring up to 6.5 on the Richter Scale. A tuned mass damper system provides additional stabilization. Towering above a star-shaped geometric base that cov...

Museum at the Gateway Arch  St. Louis Best Project Owners  Gateway Arch Park Foundation; National Park Service Design Firm  Cooper Robertson Contractor  McCarthy Building Cos. Inc. Civil Engineer  David Mason + Associates Structural Engineer  Alper Audi Inc. Mechanical, Electrical & Technology Engineer   IMEG Corp. Plumbing & Fire Protection Engineer  KAI Exhibit Designer  Haley Sharpe Design Located at the base of Eero Saarinen’s iconic Arch, this LEED Gold, $108.9-million project renovated and expanded the half-century-old subterranean museum and visitor center and added a new west entrance. The largest public-private partnership investment ever in a national park, the project team sought to expand and improve the visitor’s center and connect the park via a walking path to St. Louis’ Old Courthouse, which had been cut off by a highway. It also had to be built without shutting down the Arch, which gets nearly 3 million visito...

Award of Merit, Power/Industrial: Johan Sverdrup Living Quarters Topside EPC Johan Sverdrup Living Quarters Topside EPC  Leirvik, Norway Award of Merit Owner  Equinor Design Firm, Structural And MEP Engineer  KBR Inc. Contractor And Civil Engineer  Kvaerner AS EPC Living Quarters AM Module  Leirvik In February, K2JV, a joint venture between KBR and Kvaerner, completed construction on the Johan Sverdrup utilities and living quarters topsides (ULQ) project for Equinor, formerly known as Statoil. This project forms one of four platforms in the Norwegian North Sea, part of the first phase of the Johan Sverdrup oil field development. This project is the largest permanent living quarters in the North Sea, spanning over 10 levels, with 560 beds in 450 cabins; nine free-fall lifeboats; space for three helicopters; and recreational facilities, workshops and offices. Given the project’s 50-year design life, the team paid close attention to the materials and...

Award of Merit, Bridge Tunnel: WSDOT Alaskan Way Tunnel Design Build, SR 99 Deep Bored Tunnel Award of Merit Owner  Washington Dept. of Transportation Engineer-of-Record, Lead Tunnel Designer, Civil, Structural And MEP Engineer  HNTB Corp. Contractor  Seattle Tunnel Partners—Dragados USA and Tutor Perini Inc., Joint Venture General Engineering   Consultant  WSP USA Project Management Assistant Consultant  Mott MacDonald Subcontractors  Desert Mechanical; Fisk Electric Co.; SICE; Hitachi Zosen Replacing Seattle’s aging Alaskan Way Viaduct required a bored tunnel solution, forming a nearly two-mile section of State Route 99 underneath the city’s downtown. Seattle Tunnel Partners, a joint venture led by Dragados of Spain, worked in partnership with U.S.-based Tutor Perini Inc. and key subcontractors from Japan and France to create the largest soft-ground bored tunnel in the U.S. with a 57.5-ft excavated tunnel diameter. The $1.3-billion proje...