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Posted on November 6, 2011

For construction services providers as well as their clients it is worth knowing that for 2012 the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) will have changes. Affected places are restaurants, hotels, hospitals, stores, factories and warehouses. This update was made by Rocky Mountain ADA Center, which is one of the 10 regional centers funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. The changes will have full implementation for new construction or alterations after March 15, 2012.

The ADA changes are the following:

  • Social Service Center Establishments - Access to beds and roll-in showers.
  • Housing at Places of Education- Application of provisions for transient lodging and for residential facilities, and kitchen access and accessible circulation within units.
  • Assembly Areas - Additional criteria for the location and dispersion of wheelchair spaces and companion seats in assembly areas, including stadium-style movie theaters.
  • Medical Care Facilities - Dispersion of accessible patient bedrooms.
  • Residential Dwelling Units - Coverage of dwelling units designed, constructed, or altered by state and local governments for sale to individuals.
  • Detention and Correctional Facilities - Enhanced scoping (3%) for accessible cells, dispersion, and coverage of altered cells.
  • Places of Lodging - Application of scoping provisions to sites with multiple facilities, alterations, and exclusion of residential-only units. Read more...

Decline in Commercial Construction Industry Endangering Specialty Contractors

Posted on November 2, 2011

The last few years have been anything but kind to the commercial construction industry, especially the Specialty Contractors they employ. Specialty Contractors are being forced to re-evaluate and modify everyday operations to adjust to the volatile economic market that is threatening their demand.

Opportunities are few and far between these days, and every opportunity, big or small must be considered. For the majority of commercial construction companies, their futures appear murky, at best. Businesses that have been opened decades long are most concerned of the looming future of the employment of Specialty Workers.

Through desperate efforts to stay in business, contractors are forced to take uncharacteristic jobs and must now scramble to stay competitive and profitable. Plenty of contractors have to cut their staff in half, or more, to merely survive. Even worse, several sectors of commercial industries are still in the midst of a downward spiral. A commercial construction stand still is often the best case scenario for some struggling businesses.

Timelines, deadlines, and budgets are all shrinking. Stress is more palpable, the workload is more demanding, and the competition more fierce than ever. Like all industries, success is measured by supply and demand. Right now there is just no demand for specialty contractors in commercial construction.

For example, Las Vegas and its commercial construction commitments in the last few years have been severely affected by the commercial construction drought. At one point they were building as far as the eye could see, littering the strip with hotels, shops, restaurants, casinos. Read more...

The Importance Of Bearing Pads In Concrete Construction

Posted on October 31, 2011

Bearing pads are an essential part of concrete construction, because without them, there would be no defense against environmental changes, stress due to shifting and settling or the damage caused by the vibration from movement throughout these great and massive structures. Since their advent on the technological market, there has been less structural losses and more importantly, less replacement of essential concrete fixtures in infrastructures all over the world.

What They Do

Bearing pads literally carry the weight of the world upon them. In concrete construction, no matter if the material is precast or prestressed, they are a necessary element to be added to the final result so that the vertical load of the construct can be distributed evenly throughout, minimizing the amount of localized stress defects, and the structural damage that can result because of them. This is their primary benefit, of course but there are other benefits that they can provide, especially in areas that regularly suffer from environmental hazards.

Using these pads can help structures to survive extreme environmental attacks upon them, like hurricanes and earthquakes, by allowing for both horizontal and rotational movements at the load bearing level. Basically it grants more flexibility to an otherwise solid mass for shifting and rolling, lessening the effects upon the structure as a whole. The shocks that come from teutonic shifting deep underground is also lessened, allowing upright constructs to hold their place far longer than without them. Read more...

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