“What to wear” checklist: • Wear Safety Glasses or Face Shields, whichever suits better, to protect your eyes from harmful exposures like dust, chemicals, flying particles, smokes and what not – especially if your job involves welding, cutting, grinding, nailing, concreting and chemical-related works. • Use proper boots – insulated, water and skid proof – whatever protects you best. The…
The careful technical writer always uses parallel construction in paragraphs, lists, even sentences. For sentences that is just good grammar. So what is parallel construction? Parallel Sentences According to my oldest text book on technical writing, a sentence is parallel if its coordinate elements are expressed in the same grammatical form. By creating and sustaining a recognizable pattern for the…
To provide an expert’s view on construction payment and performance surety bonds, I sat down with Ellen Neylan, the owner of Surety Bond Associates, a WBE surety bond agency and consulting firm that provides specialty surety services to small, minority women and veteran owned contractors. Often projects presented accompany a bonding requirement – too many times this is seen as…
It used to be that building “insulation” evoked images of rolls of fiberglass batting material in either pink or white/yellowish color. Since the late 1930s, long strips of fiberglass batting have been cut to fit between wall studs and sandwiched between the exterior wall and the sheetrock interior. Fiberglass provided far superior (and safer) building insulation than had been used…
Woodcraft construction kits have been around for a good number of years now, but just recently started to really take off. We now find that there are a lot of people that choose to buy these toys for their kids, or even for themselves, because they offer a lot of things in return. It is known that they are some…
Eminent domain is generally the ability of the government to take private property for public purposes. It is a power granted by the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution, and exists to ensure the public has streets, sewers, electrical lines, and much of the rest of the public infrastructure that exists today. But, if the government is going to…
Retail construction is a relatively simple concept to understand. When it comes to building and renting retail spaces there are certain obligations that the builder has to the tenants and vice versa. Basic retail construction means the building of a space that is either finished on the interior or left for the tenant to complete. When a company starts a…
In a plasma screen, there are over sixteen million pixels making up the display. Each of those sixteen million are made up of three pixel colors of blue, red and green phosphors, which are evenly distributed across the screen. The entire screen which you view, or rather the picture you watch is made up of a combination of these three…
Have you noticed whenever you buy a burger, the sales people always try to persuade you to ‘Go Large’, or have ‘extra fries’ etc. Have you also noticed at the checkout of every superstore are racks of things you would not have thought of buying, but as you stand there waiting at the checkout, you suddenly realise all the things…
Pole buildings are old and proven structures. Ancient civilizations discovered the ease of pole building construction centuries ago and now it’s catching on again. A basic pole structure consists of vertical supports, horizontal members, rafters or trusses, and supports. Pole buildings are very simple and sturdily constructed. The poles are embedded deep in the ground and extend to the top…