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Construction Site Hearing Issues: How Noise Damages Workers’ Health & Prevention Tips

UK Construction Blog

Legal obligations require employers to assess, control, and review noise exposure under the Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005, providing mandatory hearing protection at 80 dB and health surveillance for at-risk workers. Excavators generate similar levels when digging foundations or clearing debris.

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Lean methodology is ignored by the construction sector

Job Order Contracting

Research has readily noted the causal factors for the relative lack of adoption of Lean across the construction and facilities management sectors. Bayfield & Roberts, 2005, Hook & Stehn, 2008, Howell, 1999, McGrath-Champ & Rosewarne, 2009). Journal of Civil Engineering and Management, 14(2), 73–78. 1440-7027).

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Cairo & the Built Environment: Past, Present, and Future

Civil + Structural Engineer

By Luke Carothers A Land in Transition Egypt as a place is no stranger to the change that marches hand-in-hand with the progress of time. The legacy of time and change can still be felt throughout Cairo’s built environment. When completed, this will be the longest driverless monorail system in the world.

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Construction Productivity is a Process Problem, Not People: Here’s How Autonomy Helps

Autodesk Construction Cloud

In 2017, McKinsey & Company released a 10-year analysis from 2005 to 2015 that found that construction-labor productivity in the United States hadn’t kept pace with other industries. The truth is that more technology solutions can fragment work in different applications and systems. As the statistician and management consultant W.

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How Rajat Buildtech is Leading the Way with Digital Adoption and Benefits

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Ltd was founded in 2005 with the vision of creating landmarks and contributing to the urban infrastructure development in the newly formed state of Chhattisgarh. Automated Version Management in 3D environment. With the new system in place this time was reduced to less than 20 minutes. A part of Rajat Group, Rajat Buildtech Pvt.

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Delivering Valuable Data: an interoperability code of practice

Extranet Evolution

An interoperability code of practice for technologies in the built and managed environment is set to be launched on Monday 17 April in London. There has been a lot of progress on the first three, but, sadly, much less on how information can be exchanged between systems. Addressing poor interoperability However, change was afoot.

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Revit OpEd: View Discipline

Revit OpEd

When MEP (Systems as it was called then) appeared a year later they extended the concept to Mechanical and Electrical (plumbing lumped in with Mechanical till release 2013). When Mechanical is assigned Revit changes the nature of what plan and reflected plan mean. The concept of View Discipline appeared with Revit Structure.