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Industry News
On Friday, November 1, CISCA received a three-year cancellation notice regarding the joint INTEX tradeshow with AWCI (the Association of the Wall and Ceiling Industry). For more than 10 years, CISCA and AWCI have shared this combined tradeshow for the networking benefit and opportunity of all our combined members.
 
The Construction Industry Safety Coalition (CISC) has responded to OSHA’s request for information regarding changes to the “Occupational Exposure to Respirable Crystalline Silica - Specified Exposure Control Methods Standard,” also known as the silica rule. Specifically, OSHA requested comments in mid-August on potential changes to Table 1, which designates compliance actions for a range of conditions and tasks exposing workers to respirable crystalline silica.
 
For construction business owners, becoming profitable is a simple concept: time equals money. Without profitable projects, it’s nearly impossible for any business to stay afloat. Although many will deny it, technology, or lack thereof, is the culprit for profit loss.
 
November is National Entrepreneurship Month. An entrepreneur is defined as "one who organizes and assumes the risk of a business or enterprise." We often think of entrepreneurs as people who start a new business. The construction industry is no stranger to these types of entrepreneurs. So many construction companies are started by one or two people with skill and a dream.
 
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Good data, when harnessed, enables better decisions and can dramatically simplify project management. At the same time, collecting and accessing high-quality data has long been a challenge in the AEC industry. Business leaders in construction are often required to make critical decisions based on limited supporting data. While this is sometimes unavoidable, new technologies aim to make this a thing of the past. 
 
Claims of lien are often a contractor’s last resort. But sometimes filed at the last minute, when all other attempts at obtaining payment have failed, some of these liens may be defective and not enforceable.
 
Returning to civilian life from military service can be rocky. Veterans forge myriad skills while serving, but it can be challenging to tailor that expertise to nonmilitary jobs and even harder to use it to launch a career. Yet the construction industry's labor shortage is only intensifying, and experts say that veterans often have experience suitable for not only jobs in construction, but careers.
 
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One of the biggest challenges faced in the design of capital projects may, at first, seem deceptively simple: to understand the needs of the owners and design a building around those parameters. How that understanding is translated into the design, however, is critical - and a major factor in the success of the project. Generative design allows designers to take advantage of the latest programming technologies to review vast amounts of design iterations in a short period of time - all while still adhering to the client’s objectives.
 
The American Institute of Architects has announced that it will issue 13 new and updated documents for its Construction Manager as Constructor (CMc) and Construction Manager as Adviser (CMa) series. The updated CMc documents will be available Nov. 15, while the CMa series will be released in February 2020.
 
Construction input prices remained unchanged on a monthly basis in October but are down 2.2% year-over-year, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Producer Price Index data. Nonresidential construction input prices fell 0.1% for the month and are down 2.0% compared to the same time last year.
 
Association News
Join us in Las Vegas, March 23-26, 2020 for the 2020 CISCA Convention and INTEX. Registration is now open and there is a special CISCA rate for lodging. For additional questions, call CISCA at 630-584-1919 or email cisca@cisca.org.
 
Acoustics in Schools is a tool for architects, interior designers and other design professionals who work to improve school environments for all users. It is an introduction to the acoustical issues commonly confronted on school projects. Literature on this topic, gathered by CISCA, overviews important acoustical considerations in schools. Practical design responses to these issues are presented in this white paper in “practitioner-friendly” language. Original sources and a glossary of terms are also included to provide further information.
 
Member News
AD’s Gypsum Supply Division hosted its first combined meeting since its Building Materials Business Unit merged in April 2019 with The Drake Group, LLC. The fall meeting welcomed over 330 members and supplier partners in attendance. Held at the Hilton Austin hotel September 19-20, attendees participated in a variety of events such as business meetings, receptions and member best-practice group sessions.
 
Launched in 1999, the Ceilings Recycling Program has recycled more than 200 million square feet of used ceiling panels, saving more than one million tons of virgin raw materials and preventing more than 100,000 tons of construction waste from being deposited in landfills.
 
 

 

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