Why one bad decision or project can take a company down.
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Month: January 2019
Deadline is Approaching for the Submission of Proposals to Present at ENR FutureTech
Jan. 31 is the last day to submit proposals to present at ENR’s annual FutureTech conference in June. After the submissions period ends the conference planning team will analyze the proposals for the emerging trends shaping the construction world in the years to come.
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Erector Proves Speed Predictions for Radical Steel Frame of Seattle's Rainier Square Tower
With floors 10 and 11 of Seattle’s 58-story Rainier Square Tower under construction concurrently, crews from the Erection Co. are meeting or exceeding speed predictions for the radical composite steel frame’s steel erection, core welding and core concrete casting.
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Nucor to Build $1.35B Steel Mill in Midwest, State Not Yet Picked
Steelmaker says plant would serve Midwest, which consumes more plate steel products than any other U.S. region.
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Alla Weinstein: Offshore Wind Pioneer Gets in Deep in Burgeoning US Market
Alla Weinstein is described as “tenacious and focused” in her push to have lots of floating turbines generating power, and revenue, in deep water off California—and elsewhere.
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John Aho: Engineer Pushed for Seismic Safety in Alaska Ahead of 2018 Earthquake
The son of a pioneer bush pilot in Alaska, structural engineer John Aho spent decades working toward earthquake preparedness.
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Bringing Smarter Technology to Jobsite Monitoring, One Cloud-Linked Sensor at a Time
Frustrated by the state of sensor platforms for tracking jobsite conditions, Mark Bryant set out to build his own.
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Joel Cesare: Breaking Down Official Resistance to Exotic Green-Building Systems
Trash heaps. Ocean trips. Rocks for jocks. Nurture, nature—and even football—informed Joel Cesare’s pursuit of planetary sustainability.
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Gerry Galloway: 'Superstar' at 83 Continues His Water Management Crusade With an Assist on Big Urban Flooding Study
When Texas A&M Professor Sam Brody had the chance to snag a “superstar” to join an academic team producing the first national study of urban flooding scope and consequences, he knew just who to ask: Gerry Galloway.
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Megan Kreiger: Engineer Scales Up 3D-Printed Concrete Structures
Last month, Megan Kreiger spent more than a week at Camp Pendleton in Southern California, 3D printing a 32-ft-long reinforced concrete footbridge.
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