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Technology in Construction Law
Table of Contents:Construction Technology: Past and Future - Russ Gibbs, Anoop Sattenini, and Hala NassereddineLawyer's Duty of Technological Competence - Sanjay Kurian and Benjamin T. JohnsonData/Cybersecurity and Insurance - Reggie Jones and Kristen BrozDealing with Construction Technology in Law Practice - Rebecca Sherman and Megan GeorgeOverview of Electronic Discovery in Construction Law Cases - Brett Lamb, Elisabeth Malsch, and Leslie King O'NealGathering ESI from Construction Projects - Brett Lamb, Elisabeth Malsch, and Leslie King O'NealPresenting ESI Evidence at Trial, Arbitration Hearings, and Mediation - Elisabeth Malsch and Leslie King O'NealTechnology Tools for the Construction Litigator -Joseph T. Imperiale, John J. Gazzola, and Chris G. Haley
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At your best as a plumber : your playbook for building a successful career and launching a thriving small business as a plumber /
\"The only series of step-by-step guides to succeeding in the skilled trades and achieving the American dream. At Your Best as a Plumber is your playbook for learning if a career as a plumber is right for you, progressing from pre-apprentice to journeyman to master plumber, and launching your own small business. Learn: What does a career as a plumber look like? Why should you consider becoming a plumber? How do you become a successful craftsman as a plumber? How much can you make as a plumber? What are your career options once you become a plumber? How long does it take to be successful at each stage in a plumber's career? How and where do you find work as a plumber? What does it take to strike out on your own? What does it take to launch and build a successful small business? At Your Best is the only step-by-step handbook to finding if a career in the trades is right for you, educating yourself and earning the proper certifications, establishing yourself as an excellent apprentice and journeyman in the industry, and moving on to start your own small business in the trades. At each step of the way, your At Your Best playbook and its companion, www.AtYourBest.com, provide the information, recommendations, outside resources, and concrete actions needed for taking the next successful step in You, Inc. Whether you are beginning your first career, changing careers, or ready to move up and start your own business as a carpenter, plumber, HVAC/R tech, or other tradesman, this is the book that will tell you how. There currently over 6.5 million unfilled jobs in the skilled trades in the US. Despite being well-paying and secure, these jobs remain open because enough qualified candidates with the skills, attitude, and experience required do not exist. Moreover, plenty of opportunity exists for established tradespeople to start their own business, but they have no guidance. The At Your Best Playbooks series and www.AtYourBest.com change that.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Risks of implementing sustainable construction practices in the Nigerian building industry
This study assessed the risks level associated with implementation of sustainable construction practices through a questionnaire survey distributed to 256 building professionals in Nigeria. It identified 47 risk factors with different likelihood of occurrence and magnitude of impacts. A quantitative risk analysis result based on mean value method and risk prioritisation number showed that the three top-ranked risk factors with highest likelihood of occurrence were unavailability of sustainable materials and equipment, more complex and unfamiliar construction techniques and processes, and high initial sustainable construction costs; whereas the three top-ranked risk factors with highest magnitude of impacts were high initial sustainable construction costs, poor and inefficient communication among project participants, and high cost of sustainable materials and equipment. The criticality index result identified 23 critical risk factors which mostly related to knowledge and awareness, cost, regulatory framework, building materials and socioeconomic issues. However, the Wilcoxon Signed-rank test result indicated that there is significant difference (z = -3.207, p<0.001) between the likelihood of occurrence and magnitude of impacts of the risks factors associated with implementation of sustainable construction practices in Nigeria of which the effect was moderate (r = 0.468). Furthermore, the study revealed that there is no significance difference in the risk level of the risk factors associated with implementation of sustainable construction practices based on the respondents’ roles (p>0.05). The study, therefore, recommended for training of construction practitioners in the multi-risk management approaches and increasing awareness through education on sustainable construction concept for building industry stakeholders. It further recommended for developing of new sustainable and affordable building materials through research institutes like Nigerian Building and Road Research Institute (NBRRI) with appropriate regulatory and policy frameworks for successful sustainable building projects.
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The Way We Build
The construction trades once provided unionized craftsmen a route
to the middle class and a sense of pride and dignity often denied
other blue-collar workers. Today, union members still earn wages
and benefits that compare favorably to those of college graduates.
But as union strength has declined over the last fifty years, a
growing non-union sector offers lower compensation and more
hazardous conditions, undermining the earlier tradition of upward
mobility. Revitalization of the industry depends on unions shedding
past racial and gender discriminatory practices, embracing
organizing, diversity, and the new immigrant workforce, and
preparing for technological changes.
Mark Erlich blends long-view history with his personal
experience inside the building trades to explain one of our
economy's least understood sectors. Erlich's multifaceted account
includes the dynamics of the industry, the backdrop of union
policies, and powerful stories of everyday life inside the trades.
He offers a much-needed overview of construction's past and present
while exploring roads to the future.
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The True Value of Construction and the Built Environment to the Economy
In the first paper, De Valence deals with the issue of the scope of the construction industry and promotes the view that a framework for analysis of the construction industry should incorporate the totality of activities involved in the production of the wider built environment. He argues for the need to undertake research based on the boundaries of the built environment system which incorporates greater social and environmental challenges. Ilhan and Yobas concentrate on the social and environmental value of construction activity and not just the economic value. They discuss the shortcomings of GDP measures and promote the development and use of National Wealth accounts to provide a better way of assessing the value of the built environment. They emphasise the importance of developing a system for measuring natural, man-made and human and social capital. In the context of a strategy for evaluating the construction industry and sustainable development, they discuss measurement problems and suggest indicators.
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Making sense of construction improvement
\"The book sets out deliberately to challenge current directions in construction management, confronting the assumption that knowledge is uni-dimensional and accumulative. It will be argued that any understanding of construction management depends upon a critical orientation that does not subjugate understanding to performance. The book will initially set out the justification for adopting a critical perspective with reference to the broader literature on Construction Management Studies. Current trends in construction management will be set in the context of social, economic and political change over the past thirty years. A recurring theme throughout the book will be the complex interplay between the espoused managerial rhetoric and the realities of structural change in the construction sector. The discourse of construction management shapes, and is shaped by, the changing reality of the workplace. Linkages will also be made to the emergence of the enterprise culture and rhetoric of the global marketplace. Following the development of a critical perspective on construction management as a whole, specific chapters will be devoted to: business process re-engineering, lean construction, partnering, collaborative working, performance measurement and the assumed need for culture change\"-- Provided by publisher.
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JCT Contract Administration Pocket Book
This book is quite simply about contract administration using the JCT contracts. The key features of the new and updated edition continue to be its brevity, readability and relevance to everyday practice. It provides a succinct guide written from the point of view of a construction practitioner, rather than a lawyer, to the traditional form of contract with bills of quantities SBC/Q2016, the design and build form DB2016 and the minor works form MWD2016. The book broadly follows the sequence of producing a building from the initial decision to build through to completion. Chapters cover:
Procurement and tendering
Payments, scheduling, progress and claims
Contract termination and insolvency
Indemnity and insurance
Supply chain problems, defects and subcontracting issues
Quality, dealing with disputes and adjudication
How to administer contracts for BIM-compliant projects
JCT contracts are administered by a variety of professionals including project managers, architects, engineers, quantity surveyors and construction managers. It is individuals in these groups, whether experienced practitioner or student, who will benefit most from this clear, concise and highly relevant book.
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