The High-Rise Insulation Experts at Thermafiber have developed another solution for the curtain wall industry. The new system (CW-D-1014) was tested with a 24" high spandrel area, the shortest spandrel height in the UL Fire Resistance ...
A just-released forecast of labour supply and demand says construction will need to recruit more than 250,000 workers—including the traditional number of new entrants to the workforce—to meet building needs from now until 2021. ...
Tags: Construction Industry, labour supply, commercial building
Greenwood International Insurance (GWI), a Massachusetts-based wholly owned subsidiary of Pan-American Life Insurance Group, and High Point Underwriters have introduced a new Independent Contractor Occupational Accident product and program. ...
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Author and humorist Mark Twain is given credit for the saying, “Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting.” It is unknown if Twain ever spoke those words. A bottle of whiskey makes for sipping. Water makes for a political ...
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The Item Unique Identification (IUID) program used by the Department of Defense allows the department to track many of its physical assets throughout their lifetime. This is key to the department's financial management as well as its combat ...
AGA CAD Ltd. is pleased to announce the strategic partnership between Arup, the global engineering and design firm and AGA CAD, a developer of BIM solutions and Revit extensions under the tools4revit? trademark. The people at Arup are ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Cliff Backman, VP of Franklin Empire Inc., announced the appointment of Sean Bernard to the position of contractor sales manager, GTA (Greater Toronto Area). Sean will head up the contractor/construction sales force assigned to the four ...
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The US government plans to reinforce its cybersecurity programme by expanding web monitoring, using a process which currently scans traffic going in and out of defence contractors and expanding it to private firms. That means employees of ...
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Marc Chenier has been appointed to the position of general manager of Sherbrooke, Que.-based Dettson Industries Inc.—a subsidiary of Group Ouellet Canada Inc. that manufactures residential and light-commercial heating products. ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, light-commercial heating products
The 2-dimensional barcode, or Data Matrix code, is at the heart of the Item Unique Identification system (IUID) used by the Department of Defense for tracking equipment throughout its life cycle. Contractors supplying equipment to the DoD ...
Tags: Manufacturing, Processing Machinery, Scanner
Agile development specialist Alistair Cockburn acknowledges that "agile is not for every project, but the hard part is to name which projects it's not for." Broadly, anything where a need for 100% reliability exceeds the need for ...
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Chip maker ST-Ericsson will be wound down as parent companies STMicroelectronics and Ericsson have decided to take over some parts of the company, including LTE modems and application processors, and close or sell the rest. The news comes ...
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A world leader in innovative glass block products for commercial, institutional, government, and residential building applications, Pittsburgh Corning™ is the only U.S.-based manufacturer of glass block. In 2011, the company began ...
Tags: Climate Curtain, mechanical, electrical
The impact of globalization is visible everywhere, be it education, business or any other sector. To serve these areas, massive construction work is going on all over the world, including India. This has increased the demand for new ...
Tags: Cranes, construction work, construction
As part of their continued growth Coastline Surveys Ltd are delighted to announce the launch of Coastline Offshore Ltd, a new division of the company specifically developed to meet the growing demands for specialist offshore geotechnical ...