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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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Insulation’s crucial role in creating habitable basements

Construction Specifier

By Mike Fischer One of the first questions to be asked when designing a basement foundation is “what is the desired functionality of the basement?” On the far end of the spectrum, the basement may serve as a structural foundation only and nothing more.

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

Civil + Structural Engineer

This ambitious project–owned by the Egyptian National Authority of Tunnels (NAT)–is intended to create a direct connection between Cairo, the New Administrative Capital, and 6th of October City via a two-line rapid transit system. When completed, this will be the longest driverless monorail system in the world.

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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). Engineers dont generally do reflected plans so Revit made it easier to generate regular floor plans that show their elements in a way they expect to see them.

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Open information exchange of Heating, Ventilating and Cooling systems (HVAC) – A Important Standard? – HVAC information exchange – HVACie

Building Information Management

Open information exchange of Heating, Ventilating and Cooling systems (HVACie), released by the Engineer Research and Development Center for public review. HVACie extends the existing Industry Foundation Class Coordination View including equipment and system information streamlining construction shop drawing and fabrication.

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Open information exchange of Heating, Ventilating and Cooling systems (HVAC) – A Important Standard? – HVAC information exchange – HVACie

Building Information Management

Open information exchange of Heating, Ventilating and Cooling systems (HVACie), released by the Engineer Research and Development Center for public review. HVACie extends the existing Industry Foundation Class Coordination View including equipment and system information streamlining construction shop drawing and fabrication.

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Great Leap Forward

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More recently, the PRC has begun to lay the foundation for a Chinese aerospace industry. The United States—with the best university system in the world supplying the brainpower for the most-advanced labs—has serenely assumed that its status as the global technology leader would not be challenged in our lifetimes.