Avoid Overly Formal Construction Adverbs: Use Simple and Direct Language

Authoring Construction Quality, Safety & Commissioning Issues Part 6

Here’s my sixth blog on best practices in authoring construction quality, safety, and commissioning issues and items of work to complete or correct, out in the field and at the point-of-construction, as part of a field management program for construction.

Today, let’s continue to discuss good writing styles [...]

Avoid Ambiguous Phrases With Missing Objects: Construction Quality Writing Part 5

Authoring Construction Quality, Safety & Commissioning Issues Part 5:  Avoid Ambiguous Phrases With Missing Objects

Here’s my fifth blog post on best practices in authoring construction quality, safety and commissioning issues and items of work to complete or correct, out in the field and at the point-of-construction.

These best practices help to ensure effective communication of quality [...]

Tether Your iPad on the Construction Jobsite for Safety

When carrying  iPads out in the field, on the jobsite and at the point-of-construction, some jobsite conditions and project requirements may warrant the use of a tool safety tether, the same as for any other tool such as a drill, when on a roof, scaffold, ladder or catwalk (such as in a power plant or [...]

Preventing the N.Y. Trial for Standpipe Removal: Construction Safety Series

On April 26, 2011, ENR.com Engineering News-Record published a story entitled “Former Construction Foreman Notes Standpipe Removal in Building Fire Trial Testimony.”

On the former Deutsche Bank building site in lower Manhattan, allegedly, the general contractor and demolition subcontractor removed a basement standpipe and its supporting hangers during asbestos abatement and demolition of the building, damaged [...]

Tool Safety Tether for Your iPad in the Field

When carrying the iPad out in the field and jobsite, some jobsite conditions and project requirements may warrant the use of a tool safety tether. The same goes for any other tool, such as a drill, when on a roof, scaffold, ladder or catwalk (such as in a power plant or cogeneration facility), for example.

The [...]