Construction Dive

MAY 8, 2023

The fastest way to go out of business is lack of a good safety program.

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Construction Enquirer

MAY 8, 2023

Highways England has scrapped Costain’s major project to install concrete central reserve barriers on the M62 across the Pennines on the eve of main works starting. The M62 J20-25 project between Rochdale and Brighouse was originally conceived as a smart motorway scheme but had already been down-sized to a central reserve upgrade. Now the projected cost of the 19-mile central reserve upgrade has soared so high that Highways England has axed the scheme.

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Construction Dive

MAY 8, 2023

Services for healthcare shippers have been a bright spot for the delivery giant amid an overall decline in demand.

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Civil + Structural Engineer

MAY 8, 2023

Markus Neubauer, PE, joins planning, engineering and program management firm Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam, Inc. (LAN) as a Senior Associate and Team Leader for the Transportation Group based in the Austin office. Neubauer has more than 14 years of experience in transportation design, project management and team leadership. Neubauer’s extensive experience and knowledge will be instrumental in leading LAN’s Transportation Team.

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Construction Dive

MAY 8, 2023

Weak activity for offices, hotels and retail pulled the Dodge Momentum Index lower.

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MAY 8, 2023

Delayed impacts from the pandemic, an adverse legal ruling and accounting charges conspired to eat into the contractor’s top and bottom lines.

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The Pro Builder

MAY 8, 2023

NAHB Develops Land Use Resources for Home Builders and Buyers ibush Mon, 05/08/2023 - 10:00 Chairman's Message: An NAHB Land Development Committee working group is creating educational resources to help make land-use policy information more accessible Alicia Huey, 2023 NAHB Chairman One of the key factors in the cost of housing is the availability and cost of land, which is influenced by a variety of land-use policies and regulations at the local, state, and federal levels.

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Construction Enquirer

MAY 8, 2023

Yorkshire Water has put contractors on bid alert for two major framework deals worth around £2.8bn. These two frameworks will look to deliver water and wastewater asset investment over the next 10 years, and deliver on the water company’s drive to make substantial reductions in sewage overflows into watercourses. Planned works will cover the AMP8 regulatory period running from April 2025 to March 2030, with options to extend to APM9.

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Construction News

MAY 8, 2023

Construction firms made up nearly one in five of the insolvencies recorded during the first quarter of 2023, official data shows. According to the government's Insolvency Service, 4,165 construction firms became insolvent in the first three months of 2023 – 19 per cent of all… The post Construction suffering more insolvencies than any other sector appeared first on Construction News.

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Speaker: Dylan Secrest

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Construction Management

Civil + Structural Engineer

MAY 8, 2023

WSP USA, a leading engineering, environment and professional services consultancy, has advanced its commitment to help organizations become Future Ready® with the release of an essential book that explores how organizations can rethink their climate mitigation and resilience practices for greater impact. Titled “Future Ready: Your Organization’s Guide to Rethinking Climate, Resilience and Sustainability,” the book serves as a guide for business, government and other infrastructure organization l

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The Pro Builder

MAY 8, 2023

ProConnect Single-Family, Sept. 18-20, 2023, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL ibush Mon, 05/08/2023 - 16:47 ProConnect Single Family brings home builders from across the U.S. together with national vendors and manufacturers. Over the course of two days, builders and vendors meet one-on-one to discuss new products, supply-chain challenges, and opportunities to partner on future projects.

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Civil + Structural Engineer

MAY 8, 2023

One year after more than $4 million of Australian Government funding was announced, software solutions company MentorAPM and engineering consulting firm UNGANCO have reached the halfway mark of an ambitious asset management plan aimed at building resilience among indigenous communities in Cape York. With a total of nine participating councils, four have successfully begun implementation of the technology, ushering First Nations into a digitized era that will help reduce the risk and minimize the

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The Pro Builder

MAY 8, 2023

Spring Home Searches Narrow as Sellers Pull Back ldeakins Mon, 05/08/2023 - 10:38 Elevated mortgage rates aren’t the biggest roadblock for homebuyers this spring The average for the 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage has hovered below the 6.5% range for several weeks, settling in at 6.39% this week. And while more stable rates are an optimistic sign for prospective buyers, a lack of for-sale inventory is causing many house hunters to hold back.

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Civil + Structural Engineer

MAY 8, 2023

The Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (LEEA) will be making a series of announcements at LiftEx Australia, the future-focussed conference taking place at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney on 24 th and 25 th May 2023. This will include a major announcement that will deliver on something Association members have been requesting for a long time and promises to change the landscape for them and technicians into the future.

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The Pro Builder

MAY 8, 2023

The Mortgage Rate Madness Continues—Where Are Borrowing Costs Headed From Here? ldeakins Mon, 05/08/2023 - 10:52 Has the Federal Reserve taken its rate hikes too far? Here's what housing experts have to say about today's homebuying conditions The Federal Reserve has issued 10 rate hikes since March 2022 in an ongoing effort to tame rampant inflation in the U.S. economy, but after soaring into the 7% range during the fourth quarter of 2022, mortgage rates are now falling.

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Construction Placements

MAY 8, 2023

THDCIL Recruitment 2023 for Engineers and Executives | 77 Posts | 05-06-2023 THDCIL Recruitment 2023 for Engineers and Executives with 77 Posts vacancies, last date to apply is 05-06-2023 The post THDCIL Recruitment 2023 for Engineers and Executives | 77 Posts | 05-06-2023 appeared first on ConstructionPlacements.

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The Pro Builder

MAY 8, 2023

Construction Layoffs Soar, Led by Single-Family Sector ldeakins Mon, 05/08/2023 - 10:58 Roughly 3.7% of construction workers were laid off or discharged in March, the highest rate reported since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic Construction layoffs are at their highest level since the start of the pandemic, and that drop in the share of open positions is predominantly driven by weakness in the single-family home building sector, according to Construction Dive.

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Speaker: Abdi Ali, Sr. Lease Accounting Consultant

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Risk Management

Construction News

MAY 8, 2023

Forthcoming work to overhaul the mechanical and electrical (M&E) systems in Portcullis House is set to cost up to £143m, an MP has revealed. The seven-storey building, which sits opposite the Palace of Westminster and houses MPs and parliamentary staff, was completed in 2001, nine… The post Portcullis House set for £143m M&E works appeared first on Construction News.

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Job Order Contracting

MAY 8, 2023

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New Civil Engineer

MAY 8, 2023

Environment Agency data and regional Shoreline Management Plans have revealed £548M worth of property is at risk of succumbing to coastal erosion by 2100. The post How £548M worth of property could be lost to coastal erosion by 2100 and the solutions to manage it appeared first on New Civil Engineer.

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Equipment World

MAY 8, 2023

The high-performance EW100 runs on 136 horsepower and travels up to 24 mph.

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Civil Engineer Blog

MAY 8, 2023

Communications are vital to your success, some engineers have a habit of waiting to be told what to do, often this entails a rush of setting out as concrete may have been ordered, or men are standing around waiting for your setting out, Its good practice to have a weekly meeting to discuss programme, and […] The post Communication Tips for Site Junior and Setting out Engineers first appeared on Civil Engineer Blog.

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New Civil Engineer

MAY 8, 2023

Subsurface digital twins can reduce ground risk and provide overall programme predictability, says Seequent civil segment director Pat McLarin. The post Innovative Thinker | Seequent director Pat McLarin on the importance of subsurface digital twins appeared first on New Civil Engineer.

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Roads Online

MAY 8, 2023

Production on the tunnelling segments has begun for the nine-kilometre twin tunnels from Sydney Olympic Park to Westmead for the Sydney Metro West Project. Once complete, the Sydney Metro West project will be a 24-kilometre metro line with stations confirmed at Westmead, Parramatta, Sydney Olympic Park, North Strathfield, Burwood North, Five Dock, The Bays, Pyrmont and Hunter Street in the Sydney CBD.

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New Civil Engineer

MAY 8, 2023

Steel has long been the backbone of construction, but with prices rising and embodied carbon targets pressing, basalt rebar could become an alternative. The post Could basalt reinforcement replace steel in infrastructure construction? appeared first on New Civil Engineer.

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Construction Management

Roads Online

MAY 8, 2023

Roads & Infrastructure Magazine sits down with InEight Head of Account Management – EMEA Region, Jeff Quantrill, to discuss the challenges, potential improvements and available solutions associated with modern risk management processes. T he Australian infrastructure sector’s approach to risk management has changed over the past few decades. Developments in technology and processes have enabled the largest compilation of key data to date, each set critical to forecasting and managing risks a

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New Civil Engineer

MAY 8, 2023

India’s first undersea twin tunnels, located in South Mumbai, are set to open by the end of the year, as operation of what has been described as the largest ever tunnel boring machine (TBM) in the history of India, nick named "Mavala", nears completion. The post Work of ‘largest ever’ TBM in India is nearly complete on ground-breaking sub-sea twin tunnels appeared first on New Civil Engineer.

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Roads Online

MAY 8, 2023

Roads & Infrastructure hears from Glenn Busuttil, Corangamite Team Leader Waste, on the performance of the shire’s newest Komatsu D85EXi-18 dozer. I n September 2019, the Shire of Corangamite took delivery of a Komatsu D85EXi-18 dozer fitted with intelligent Machine Control (iMC) to work on its landfill operation at Naroghid, the Corangamite Regional Landfill.

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