Bosch Wet/Dry Dust Extractor Offers Professional Functionality, Performance

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The Bosch GAS20-17AH Wet/Dry Dust Extractor is an industrial-grade powerhouse with a maximum 300 cfm capacity that filters fine dust, coarse dirt and liquids. The GAS20-17AH boasts 17 gallon capacity, and auto filter cleaning with HEPA filter to provide a complete package in helping users move toward OSHA silica dust regulation compliance. Its auto filter-clean system activates every 15 seconds and the HEPA filter captures 99.97 percent of particles at 0.3 microns and larger. The dust extractor features a high-performance 17.5 amp motor for heavy-duty applications, including concrete cutting and surface grinding with larger 7-inch and 9-inch grinders and up … Read more

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NCCER Releases New Construction Superintendent Certification Program

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NCCER has released a new superintendent assessment and is partnering with FMI to offer a joint certification to qualified professionals in the superintendent field. The assessment was developed in conjunction with subject matter experts for professionals whose primary role is to oversee the operations of a construction site from planning to completion. This joint certification encompasses both the NCCER assessment, which recognizes the knowledge of these professionals, and the FMI Field Leadership Institute that provides hands-on interactive education and experiences. While the skilled worker shortage has gained much attention over the last few years, it is vitally important the industry … Read more

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Improving Worker Safety and Health in the Building Industry

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CPWR’s Exposure Control Database can help anticipate and control worker exposures to silica, welding fumes, lead and noise. This free online tool allows users to enter a construction task, proposed controls and other variables and obtain a predicted exposure level based on exposure data from trusted sources. A recorded webinar on the database will walk you through its features. January 2019 marks two years since CPWR’s Foundations for Safety Leadership training module was deemed worthy by OSHA to be used as an official elective for the OSHA 30-hour outreach training curriculum. FSL is a free, interactive training curriculum that instructors … Read more

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CPB Contractors Wins $116M Coffs Harbour Health Expansion Main Works

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CPB Contractors has been awarded the Harbour Health Campus expansion main works, which will include a new five-story clinical services building located in New South Wales, Australia. The project is expected to generate revenue of approximately $116 million to CPB. Construction is expected to commence in April 2019 and conclude by the end of 2021. The Coffs Harbour Hospital expansion main works will include: Construction of a new five-story clinical services building with a rooftop helicopter landing site, ICU and surgical, maternity and pediatric inpatient units New connections to the existing hospital building at ground and first-floor levels Refurbishment of … Read more

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Hekla Tower La Défense Under Construction

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Hines and AG Real Estate have appointed Bateg (VINCI Construction France) to build the Hekla tower located in Paris, France. The 220-meter-tall skyscraper will boast six underground levels, a 48-story superstructure, a two-story-high entrance hall and a tree-planted roof terrace. This new office tower, with a surface area of approximately 80,000 square meters, forms part of a project to develop the Rose de Cherbourg area in the heart of the La Défense business district, and will benefit from a landscaped park (1.3 hectares) and a planted walkway above the circular highway. Its façade, composed of 14 kilometers of shading elements, … Read more

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