Build America Podcast

Construction claims are generated using many tools and many different methodologies. Listen here to learn some of the basic to intermediate approaches.

http://sjcivil.net/podcast/claims-tools-methodologies/

Knowing how to read a concrete mix design is helpful for the project management team: from project manager to foreman. Here are some basics.

http://sjcivil.net/engineering/cake-batter-and-concrete-mix-design-same-thing/

Being the best employee does require having traits which benefit your company, but one trait more than any other will help you as an employee benefit yourself and your own career. It’s called being coachable.

http://sjcivil.net/management/help-yourself-be-the-most-coachable-player/

In construction, or after the fact in the permanent structure, engineers are predicting structural behavior and trying to either control a failure or minimize it. Herein are ways engineers engineer failure in both instances – via deflection.

http://sjcivil.net/news/ways-that-engineers-manage-failure-deflection/

Basically, from the dictionary, a bridge carries a road across an obstacle. On top it could be a railway, or it could be a walking path, or it could be a vehicle roadway. And down below it could be going over a river or it could be a ravine, or it could be another road. Everyone knows what a bridge is; however, not everyone knows the names of the components of a bridge.

http://sjcivil.net/news/bridges-101-what-makes-up-a-bridge/

Loss of productivity claims for contractors are common, and always difficult to be successful with against an owner. ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers), primarily an Owner’s advocate, has provided contractors with another tool for their toolbox: ASCE Standard 71-21 Identifying, Quantifying, and Proving Loss of Productivity. It was published in 2021.

http://sjcivil.net/news/another-contractor-claims-tool-asce-71-21-identifying-quantifying-and-proving-loss-of-productivity/

There exists an insurance product to mitigate the risk associated with catastrophic failure of a construction company. It’s called Project Loss Insurance.

http://sjcivil.net/news/project-loss-insurance-heard-of-it/

Debt, at least in the American construction business, is helpful when it comes to growth. Here’s a couple reasons why.

http://sjcivil.net/news/debt-you-need-it/

Civil construction is the same, but different, in New Zealand. Some terms and methods which vary from American civil construction follow.

http://sjcivil.net/means-methods/utes-and-bunds-working-in-new-zealand/

Bluebeam Revu is a tool that’s been around for several years now to aid in the manipulation of pdf documents – hear a little bit about it here and why I insist on using it.

http://sjcivil.net/software/bluebeam-revu-review/