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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

While there has been a fair amount written about Lean principles, actual application in the form of an integrated construction planning, procurement, and project delivery methodology has been limited to 5% or less actual work. Bayfield & Roberts, 2005, Hook & Stehn, 2008, Howell, 1999, McGrath-Champ & Rosewarne, 2009).

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

Civil + Structural Engineer

From the perspective of this legacy and its impact on Cairo’s built environment, there are several projects currently happening in Cairo that are poised to set the framework for this relationship in the future. When completed, this will be the longest driverless monorail system in the world.

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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. Project teams have traditionally designed using 2D drawings, leaving room for misinterpretation and error between collaborating teams. Out with the old….

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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. to a typical project budget ”.

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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). Apart from the automatic graphically biased changes they make, they really just help us segregate views in the project browser. Nowhere is this available per view.