Member Update
Scheduled for Feb. 7-10, CEC’s brand new Advanced Project Management course will prepare seasoned project managers for future advancement and increased responsibilities. The program was created to build off the highly successful 10-day program. The course will provide 28 hours of Gold Seal-accredited, industry-specific, advanced-level project management training.
Visit https://www.naylornetwork.com/mca-nwl/articles/index-v2.asp?aid=526416&issueID=59017 to view the full article online.
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INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY
Decisions in construction are historically based on subjective experiences instead of hard data. However, as the industry increasingly adapts to new technologies that drive productivity, boost safety, identify and address problems, automate low-level tasks and compile fact-based best practices, this precedent is beginning to shift.
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BY THE NUMBERS
1555: The Protestant martyrs Bishop Hugh Latimer and Bishop Nicholas Ridley are burned at the stake for heresy in England. 1701: Yale University is founded as The Collegiate School of Killingworth, Connecticut by Congregationalists who consider Harvard too liberal. 1793: Queen Marie Antoinette is beheaded by guillotine during the French Revolution. 1901: President Theodore Roosevelt incites controversy by inviting black leader Booker T. Washington to the White House. 1908: The first airplane flight in England is made at Farnborough by Samuel Cody, a U.S. citizen. 1934: Mao Tse-tung decides to abandon his base in Jiangxi, China, due to attacks from Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists. With his pregnant wife and about 30,000 Red Army troops, he sets out on the “Long March.” 1940: Benjamin O. Davis becomes the U.S. Army’s first African-American brigadier general. 1946: Ten Nazi war criminals are hanged in Nuremberg, Germany. 1973: Israeli General Ariel Sharon crosses the Suez Canal and begins to encircle two Egyptian armies. 1995: The Million Man March for "A Day of Atonement" takes place in Washington, D.C. 1998: General Augusto Pinochet, the former dictator of Chile, is arrested in London for extradition on murder charges.
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