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    Topcon Partners with UK-based COYO to Develop Global Educational Initiative

    LIVERMORE, Calif. – (March 13, 2013) Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) has entered into a strategic partnership with Class of Your Own organization (COYO), a major educational initiative for high school students based in the United Kingdom. The agreement will broaden the program into a global initiative through Topcon’s Education Partnership Program (EPP), which works directly with more than 1,000 schools and colleges around the world to advance surveying, civil engineering, construction and precision agriculture career opportunities. Topcon and COYO have been working together since last summer to provide “best in class” teaching experiences in the areas of surveying and precise positioning for secondary students, aged 11 to 19. COYO provides design, survey, engineering and construction project-based curriculum materials. The initial agreement was a result of...

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    Hendrick Construction Wins National Safety Award

    Charlotte, N.C., (March 12, 2013) –  The Association of Builders and Contractors (ABC) announced that Hendrick Construction, Inc. received a 2012 National Safety Excellence Award. The ABC National Safety Excellence Awards recognize companies who exhibit a continued commitment to jobsite safety and whose safety performance and programs are judged to be exemplary by the ABC National Environment, Health & Safety (EH&S) Committee. Hendrick Construction was the only Excellence Award winner in the 50,000 to 100,000 annual work hours category. The 2012 National Safety Excellence Awards were presented Feb. 20 during the 23rd annual Excellence in Construction awards banquet at the Marriott Harbor Beach Resort & Spa in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.  The ABC National Safety Excellence Awards – the highest safety award presented by the organization...

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  • Subcontractor Delay Claims Sometimes Succeed Despite a No-Damage-for-Delay Clause, New ASA Podcast Explains

    ALEXANDRIA, Va. (March 11, 2013) — Contracts often prohibit construction subcontractors from collecting damages for project delays caused by others, but a new audio podcast from the American Subcontractors Association explains that “no-damage-for-delay” contract provisions don’t always prevent subcontractors from successfully pursuing delay claims. “A no-damage-for-delay clause is simply an agreement where [the subcontractor] promise[s] not to sue the general contractor if there are delays on the job that the general contractor, and sometimes the owner, cause that cost [the subcontractor] unanticipated expenses on the job,” explains podcast presenter Richard Thomas, a construction attorney with Thomas, Feldman & Wilshusen, Dallas, Texas. Thomas explains that there are common exceptions to the enforceability of no-damage-for-delay clauses, meaning that, in certain jurisdictions and certain scenarios, subcontractors may successfully...

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    World Green Building Trends SmartMarket Report: Business Imperative and Market Demand Driving Green Building Growth

    NEW YORK (Feb. 28, 2013) –  As sustainability and energy efficiency initiatives take hold around the world, firms are finding business value and opportunities from green building, including the opportunity for new environmentally responsible products, according to McGraw-Hill Construction’s latest SmartMarket Report, “World Green Building Trends – Business Benefits Driving New and Retrofit Market Opportunities in Over 60 Countries.” The report, developed in partnership with United Technologies Corp. (UTC), is based on a study of global green building trends and aims to discern drivers of the green building marketplace. According to the study, firms are shifting their business toward green building, with 51 percent of respondents planning more than 60 percent of their work to be green by 2015. This is a significant increase from...

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