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Construction – The Building Cycle Infographic

The construction industry can be confusing and so can the project building cycle. When do contractors typically come on board? Who manages what? How is the design developed? These are all really good questions and the whole process can be tricky to navigate.

This week we wanted to share an infographic we found on the internet which does a really good job at explaining the whole process.

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8 Important Items To Include in Your Winter Protection Plan

In the words of everyone’s favourite HBO character John Snow “Winter is coming”. For those of you in warm climates, consider yourself lucky, for those of you like us that live in colder climates, it’s time to start planning if you haven’t already. Each year we have a season that demands the most of our construction projects. From making logistics more difficult, freezing liquids, making certain surfaces incompatible winter is a challenging time to work.

Before winter comes you should already have a plan in place on how to deal with the change in conditions. This week we’re running you through eight things that need to be part of your winter protection plan.

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Beating the Construction Labour Shortage

It doesn’t matter where you look nowadays there are headlines in the news daily telling us about the labour shortage. It’s a real problem and one that likely won’t be going away anytime soon. Since this is the case, we thought we’d help you out with an article on ways you can help to combat the industry labour shortage.

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Construction Glossary Is Here!

We here at cnstrctr understand that the construction industry can sometimes be a bit cliquey with all of the terms and abbreviations. Thats why we’re

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Learning How to Caulk

One of the most useful skills thats helped countless times as I’ve been battling with people over deficiencies was taught to me in my first

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Air Tightness in Buildings

A few months ago I had a chance to watch John Straube in a presentation about building envelope. For those of you that have the