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- PVC in Buildings: Hazards and Alternatives
- This paper provides a brief about the Polyvinyl chloride, commonly known as "PVC" or "vinyl," as one of the most common synthetic materials. PVC is a versatile resin and appears in thousands of different formulations and configurations. Over 14 billion pounds of PVC are currently produced per year in North...
- White papers 2003-06-10
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- Material Delivery Problems In Construction Projects: A Possible Solution
- Emerging project management methods for construction projects generate new kinds of challenges for the delivery process of materials. The rationale of such methods is to create short-term schedules, based on a constraint analysis of resources, for project tasks. This approach has two requirements for material deliveries: transparency of material availability...
- White papers 2005-02-07
- A Solution For The Material Delivery Problems In Construction Projects
- The new project management methods emerging for construction projects generate new kinds of challenges for the delivery process of the project materials. The basic philosophy of the emerging methods is to create short-term schedules for project tasks based on a constraint analysis of project resources. This approach places two requirements...
- White papers 2004-02-16
- Labor, Material And Equipment Utilization
- Good project management in construction must vigorously pursue the efficient utilization of labor, material, and equipment. Improvement of labor productivity should be a major and continual concern of those who are responsible for cost control of constructed facilities. Material handling, which includes procurement, inventory, shop fabrication, and field servicing, requires...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- A Project Manager's Level Of Satisfaction In Construction Logistics
- Customer satisfaction and continuous improvement are the fundamental goals of construction logistics. While much research has been focusing on exploring the relationship between the contractors and the ultimate customers, known as the owner, to improve the understanding of the significance of customer satisfaction, the need to examine the relationship between...
- White papers 2003-12-18
- All-Metal Construction Made Easy
- The paper focuses on the Sheet metal aircraft construction which is the most prevalent aircraft construction material by all measures, used extensively from jetliners to light, single engine airplanes and kits over the past five decades. Furthermore, virtually all other aircraft types use sheet-metal construction to some degree - whether...
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- Engineered Wood Construction Guide
- Wood is the right choice for a host of construction applications. It is the earth's natural, energy efficient and renewable building material. Engineered wood is a better use of wood. The miracle in today's wood products is that they make more efficient use of the wood fiber resource to make...
- White papers 2003-06-20
- Crack Resistant Concrete Material for Transportation Construction
- Most transportation infrastructures are exposed to a combination of mechanical and environmental loads. Normal concrete is brittle and tends to crack, resulting in a lack of durability and frequent repair needs. This paper describes an ultra ductile cementitious composite which is highly crack resistant, with a tensile strain capacity over...
- White papers 2003-08-01
- Durable Trim for Coastal Construction
- This paper describes durable trim for coastal construction. It informs that PVC trim holds paint well, resists rot, and looks just like wood. The paper attempts to find a long-lasting and good-looking exterior trim, and tries a hardboard-type composition product that promises lifetime durability and low maintenance. The adhesive securely...
- White papers 2002-09-01
- Green Healthcare Construction Case Studies
- This article describes about special construction for patients. Patients with environmentally induced medical problems come to the Center seeking Western and Eastern remedies. Many have multiple allergies, making it all the more critical for Guenther Petrarca to "push the envelope" of material selection in order to eliminate any substances that...
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- Construction Superintendent
- The Construction Superintendent job description template includes the following job summary: To provide management oversight for all phases of the construction project, including coordinating workers, material, and equipment, ensuring that specifications are being followed, and work is proceeding on schedule and within budget. Additional information available includes essential job functions,...
- Tools & templates 2007-09-09
- Accelerating the Adoption of Vacuum Insulation Technology in Home Construction, Renovation, and Remodeling
- This report focuses on a program to develop vacuum insulated panel products for home construction, renovation, and remodeling. Vacuum Insulation is a technology with the potential to improve the thermal performance of housing. A vacuum insulated panel consists of a core material sealed in an evacuated envelope of some impermeable...
- White papers 2002-12-23
- Incorporating Material Resources With Microsoft Project 2000
- Microsoft Project 2000 now allows you to identify and assign material resources to tasks in your projects. Material resources are supplies, stock, or other consumable items used to complete tasks in a project. Material resources are different from work resources, such as people and equipment, which use time rather than...
- White papers
- Material Substitution in the U.S. Residential Construction Industry
- The University of Washington's Center for International Trade in Forest Products (CINTRAFOR) surveyed residential homebuilding firms in 1995 to determine the materials they used, factors affecting material selection, and attitudes about wood-based building materials. In late 1999, CINTRAFOR conducted a follow-up study of 2,500 residential construction firms to characterize how...
- White papers 2000-01-01
- Prevent Terrorism Through Pro-Active Civil Action
- TerraBuilt Corporation International ("TerraBuilt") has a soil-based building technology that provides a solution that addresses a material percentage of the global housing shortfall. The GreenMachine is specifically designed to be transportable to virtually all construction environments, especially those inaccessible by large construction machinery, sites including densely populated, over-crowded urban sites...
- White papers 2004-05-24
- Construction Contract
- Contracts are an essential part of the construction industry. Since construction is an index of any nation's progress, it is necessary that every citizen must be equipped with knowledge of at least the basics of construction contracts. A construction contract can be termed as an agreement entered into by two...
- Tools & templates 2007-12-01
- Mulching Engineered Wood Products: An Alternative to Landfills
- Anyone who has ever walked through a construction site knows that building a structure creates a surprising amount of wood waste. In fact, building a 2,000-square-foot house generates 1.7 tons of it, on average. Some of the construction waste is from engineered wood products (EWPs), such as oriented strand board...
- White papers 2004-11-01
- The Effects of Training on the Productivity of Construction Craftsmen in South Western Nigeria
- The study reported in this paper highlights a number of benefits apart from increased productivity accruable to Nigeria's construction industry through the application of improved formal and informal training programmes. Moreover, other factors such as financial and non-financial incentives, general organization and procedure, planning, control and supervision of workers had...
- White papers 2002-06-14
- Heavy Timber Construction
- Heavy timber construction is one of the oldest types of buildings used in the development of this country. This publication defines the minimum requirements for heavy timber construction, and provides illustrations of good construction details. These are recommended to the architect and builder as a guide in developing a safe...
- White papers 2004-02-27
- Hybrid Wood and Steel Details - Builder's Guide
- The NAHB Research Center, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and the Steel Framing Alliance have worked cooperatively to introduce cold-formed steel framing into the residential construction market and to provide builders and homeowners with a cost-effective alternative construction material. There is one barrier in the progress...
- White papers 2003-07-01
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