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How to Stop “Urgent” Tasks from getting in the Way of Your Long-term Goals
How many times have you started the day with a solid plan only to get caught in a whirlwind of emails, calls, meetings, and other “urgent” tasks that take over your entire day? While it’s easy to try to blame this on distraction alone, the truth is that there’s...
Employer Use of Contact Tracing Apps: The Good, the Bad, and the Regulatory
Employers struggle with COVID-19 for any number of reasons. However, perhaps one of the main challenges they face is how to keep employees safe, even when one of them tests positive for or is exposed to COVID-19. They are looking for innovative ways to stay a step...
Is Now The Time? The Case for Modular
FROM THE JULY ISSUE: Faster project delivery, increased productivity and safety, and reduced costs all are benefits touted by modular construction advocates. Anyone who’s been on a construction site knows that traditional construction methods are inefficient,...
ACCIONA and a Multidisciplinary Approach to Concrete 3D Printing
In our most recent roundup of 3D printing webinars and events, we told you about the free “Let’s Talk Concrete 3D Printing: A Multidisciplinary Approach” webinar by Spanish company ACCIONA. The webinar, held the morning of June 30, lasted about 100 minutes and focused...
Polypropylene Fiber Reinforced Concrete
The capability of durable structure to resist weathering action, chemical attack, abrasion and other degradation processes during its service life with the minimal maintenance is equally important as the capacity of a structure to resist the loads applied on it....
How to Bring a Little Joy to Zoom
Four months into the pandemic here in the US means four months since much of the workforce has gone from zero to hero on Zoom or some equivalent video software. Pre-pandemic, only 5% of the workforce used video conferencing regularly for meetings; now, it’s...
Why Don’t More People Share Their Best Practices with Each Other?
If you are a member of a team, business, school, or volunteer organization, there's a good chance you want whatever project you are working on to succeed. Yes? Towards that end, you work hard, think hard, generate ideas, go to meetings, fight fires, and (hopefully)...
How Leaders Can Cultivate Patience in an Impatient World
Nine ways to develop this important “muscle” and reap its mental health benefits. The whole world is waiting for a coronavirus vaccine so that life can get back to normal. It feels like all of us are characters in Waiting for Godot. But unlike Samuel Beckett’s play,...
Construction Company Nexii Pushes Green Alternative To Carbon-Heavy Concrete
Nexii Building Solutions Inc. is the name of the company and its signature product is Nexiite, a proprietary material that allows for the rapid construction of sustainable buildings. The material is meant to replace concrete, which has a high carbon footprint, and the...