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Agile
Construction for the Electrical Contractor - - a must-have for construction company owners, CEOs, project managers, and supervisors Agile Construction for the Electrical Contractor provides the tools and guidance needed to transform a traditional, reactive project management style to a new, proactive, profitable, and productive business management model - one that can quickly respond to changing industry needs and remain a profitable enterprise, even during the toughest of times. In this groundbreaking new book, Dr. Daneshgari applies proven managerial techniques from other industries to electrical construction through the introduction of Agile construction - a new scientifically-based tracking system based on jobsite dynamics and the bottom-line impact of the three sources of cost drivers: money, materials, and manpower. - more |
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Atlas Construction
Business Forms -
Save time and money with the pre-printed Atlas Business Forms!
Atlas Business Forms - Proposal Forms |
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Atlas Construction
Business Forms
Book
- 122 Essential Forms at your Fingertips!
The Atlas Construction Business Forms Book consists of 122 essential forms (2 copies each) to keep your business transactions looking professional and organized. These forms are perfect for Architects, Engineers, Construction Professionals, Contractors, HVAC Professionals, Plumbers, Electricians, Designers, and more! |
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Atlas Construction
Business Forms CD-ROM
- The Atlas Construction Business Forms CD consists of 122 essential forms to keep your business transactions looking professional and organized. Atlas Construction Business forms come in both Adobe PDF and Microsoft Word format. The Word forms are fully customizable so you can change and/or add information tailoring each form to meet specific job applications. Just add your company name and information for fully customized, professional looking forms. All PDF forms come in a fill-it-in-before-you-print format and you can print as many copies as you like. You can also save your completed PDF documents to your computer if you own a read/write Adobe Acrobat program. Please note that the information in these documents is designed to provide outlines that you can follow when formulating business or personal plans or agreements and are not meant to provide legal advice. - more info |
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Atlas Construction Daily
Project Log for Construction & Maintenance -
Track events and projects with the Construction Daily Project Log 395 undated log pages give you the flexibility to keep track of events without preprinted dates! Effortlessly keep track of daily events and occurrences including: weather conditions, craftspeople, contract extras, equipment usage and rental, material purchases, overall progress, safety concerns, accidents and more with the Construction Daily Project Log for Construction & Maintenance. Complete with enough log sheets to track more than 12 months of work, you can use your completed Daily Project Log to keep accurate records of jobsite activities, document events during the course of construction, compare the accuracy of initial estimates, gauge your overall productivity and better manage your resources and costs. - more info |
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Building Code, Electrical Code References, Inspection, Study Guides,
and ADA / ABA Accessibility Guidelines |
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Building Trades
Dictionary -Building Trades Dictionary is a comprehensive reference for trades workers. Building trades, basic engineering, and architectural terms are presented in a highly illustrated, concise format.Emphasis is placed on construction tools and equipment, materials, and processes. Similar to a standard dictionary, terms are defined, synonyms are identified, and illustrations are provided. Over 1500 terms have been added to this edition and existing terms have been revised to reflect changes in the industry. Includes a CD-ROM with the Building Terms in a searchable format. - more |
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Business & Financial Management for
the Florida Contractor Exam This gigantic 496-page book is filled with everything you need to pass the Florida Contractor Business exam -- based on the material used in the actual exam:
There are even four sample tests included -- just like the actual state tests, to make sure you pass with high marks. |
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Business Letters
for the Construction Industry -
No more struggling to find the right
words Here you find over 100 professionally written model letters for virtually every difficult situation. Nothing puts your business in the best possible light better than a well-written letter -- especially when you can use that letter to help a bad situation become better. You'll use these letters over and over again to resolve disputes, win new clients, clarify proposals, coordinate with architects, subcontractors and owners, and insurers, schedule meetings and inspections, respond to complaints and situations that may be difficult to deal with. Includes CD-ROM - more |
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California
Construction Contract Writer -If you're a California contractor, you need to be good at drafting California construction contracts. You need contracts that:
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Construction Contract
Documents for Contractors (California) Are you puzzled by what's required by California Construction Contract Law? Here you'll find the paperwork the State of California requires contractors and subcontractors to give homeowners. If you don't comply, you could lose your license. Explains in simple terms what the mechanic's Lien Law is, and how to comply with its legal requirements, what forms you'll need to use, and how to fill them out properly. Shows the four essential phrases to include in a contract to make it more easily enforceable. Without these phrases, you may never get paid. Gives instructions for using the standard forms included on the CD-ROM enclosed to help you stay organized and keep your license. - more |
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Construction Codes &
Inspection Handbook - Ensure code compliance, accurate calculations, and quality, while saving time and money Comprehensive, practical, and visual, this resource provides you with instant access to job-critical information.
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Construction
Estimating -
Construction Estimating is a comprehensive introduction to estimating practices used in the construction industry. This textbook contains 15 chapters covering estimating practices and methods and features content applicable to ledger sheet, electronic spreadsheet, and estimating software use. The Sage Timberline Office Estimating Products CD-ROM provided with the textbook includes a demonstration release of the Sage Timberline Office estimating Extended Edition. - more |
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Construction Forms &
Contracts - These forms were designed, tested and used by contractors, and will help keep your business organized, profitable and out of legal, accounting and collection troubles. Includes a CD-ROM for Windows™ and Mac 125 forms you can copy and use – or load into your computer You can customize the forms to fit your company, fill them out, and print. Loads into Word for Windows, Lotus 1-2-3, WordPerfect, Works, or Excel programs. You'll find forms covering accounting, estimating, fieldwork, contracts, and general office. Each form comes with complete instructions on when to use it and how to fill it out. Nearly every contract and form you're going to need is here ready for reproduction on your copy machine. The authors are construction contractors and have used these forms for many years. They're good. They're complete. They're going to save you time and money day after day. - more |
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Construction Master Pro
Desktop Model -
Advanced Feet-Inch-Fraction Construction-Math Calculator With Full Trigonometric Function for Contractors, Architects, Builders, Engineers, Project Managers, Estimators & Draftspersons The Construction Master Pro Desktop is the most complete construction-math calculator on the market! With many powerful new built-in solutions and expanded preference selection; it’s easy to use for fast, accurate solutions to construction problems. Perfect for completing layouts, bids and estimates – saves time, money, materials and frustration. No office should be without it. - more |
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Construction Master Pro Workbook and
Study GuideThe easy-to-use course that will help you learn common construction-math principles, building techniques and acquire the skills to utilize the Construction Master Pro advanced Feet-Inch-Fraction calculator – accelerating your productivity on the job and in the classroom. You will quickly solve routine construction problems or undertake complex design and estimating challenges. The Workbook topics are modular for on-going reference and are developed with flexibility to work in conjunction with the construction jobsite from entry level to advanced studies. - more |
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Construction
Nightmares (Jobs from Hell and How to Avoid Them) - Construction Nightmares: Jobs From Hell and How To Avoid Them narrates actual jobs gone bad from the world of construction dealing with busts in plans, extras, delays, interference, scheduling, extra work, change orders, defective construction, inadequate supervision, and incompetent contractors. In other words - just about every problem in the construction industry. After Arthur F. O'Leary tells you what happened on the job, what went wrong and how it went wrong, James Acret provides an in-depth legal analysis and the probable outcome of the potential arbitration or lawsuit. The analysis provided deals with contracts, cancellation of contracts, walking off the job, removing a contractor from the job, responsibility of the bonding company, mechanics liens, insurance covers, arbitration, mediation, lawsuits, important provisions in construction contracts, responsibilities of the architect and the owner, liability for construction defects and much more. |
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Contractor's Guide
to Change Orders - STOP PROFIT-ROBBING CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT DISPUTES BEFORE THEY START
With this expanded new edition of
Contractor's Guide to Change Orders in hand, contractors
working on projects of any size - from remodeling jobs to
skyscrapers - will have all the ammunition needed to: |
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Contractor's Guide to QuickBooks Pro
2009
- Contractor's Guide to QuickBooks Pro 2009 can save hours of time in setting up and putting to use all the new features that this 2009 edition offers. QuickBooks Pro isn't just for taxes. You can use it for payroll, keeping track of your vendors and subs -- even job costing (comparing your estimated costs to your actual costs and finding out where you're making and losing money.) If you'd rather be building homes than burning the midnight oil trying to balance your books, you should have this new book. It includes a CD-ROM with a template for a construction company to help speed your set up, an estimating program with a 5000-item database, a program that converts your estimates into QuickBooks forms so you can compare with your actual costs, and blank construction forms for your use. - more |
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Contractor's Guide to QuickBooks Pro
2008
- Contractor's Guide to QuickBooks Pro 2008 can save hours of time in setting up and putting to use all the new features that this 2008 edition offers. QuickBooks Pro isn't just for taxes. You can use it for payroll, keeping track of your vendors and subs -- even job costing (comparing your estimated costs to your actual costs and finding out where you're making and losing money.) It includes a CD-ROM with a template for a construction company to help speed your set up, an estimating program with a 5000-item database, a program that converts your estimates into QuickBooks forms so you can compare with your actual costs, and blank construction forms for your use. - more |
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Contractor's Guide to QuickBooks Pro
2007 -
Contractor's Guide to QuickBooks Pro 2007 will walk you
step-by-step through QuickBooks Pro's detailed setup procedure and
then explain item-by-item how you should be using QuickBooks Pro
every day. In days, rather than weeks, you'll create a first-rate
accounting system that's an asset to your company. This book was written for contractors by contractors. That's why it's low on "accounting speak" and high on practical examples. It will help you set up a good, effective, highly-professional bookkeeping system as quickly and painlessly as possible. - more |
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Contractor's Law & Business for
the California Contractor's Exam This gigantic book is filled with everything you need to pass the California Contractor Law & Business exam:
There are even 1,000 questions and answers included -- just like the actual state tests, to make sure you pass with high marks. |
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Contractor's Legal Kit
- The Complete, User-Friendly Legal Guide for Home Builders and Remodelers Stop "eating" the costs of bad designs, hidden conditions, and job surprises. Set ground rules that assign those costs to the rightful party ahead of time. And it’s all in plain English, not "legalese." It shows you, step by step, how to use written documents to avoid most construction disputes and to successfully resolve those that are unavoidable. For less than the cost of an hour with a lawyer you’ll learn the exclusions to put in your agreements, why your insurance company may pay for your legal defense, how to avoid liability for injuries to your sub and his employees or damages they cause, how to collect on lawsuits you win, and much more. It includes a FREE CD-ROM with contracts and forms you can customize for your own use. - more |
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Contractor's
Plain-English Legal Guide - Whether you’re an experienced contractor who’s paid too much to too many lawyers, or a newcomer without the experience or financial backing to risk a legal battle, this book will guide you away from danger spots and along a safer path. For the price of about 15 minutes in a lawyer’s office you'll have a guide that will make many of those visits unnecessary. You'll find directions for starting a business, what to put in every contract, how to collect what's owed you, what laws affect your jobs, what to do about job injuries, how to file a lien that holds up, how to handle warranties, and where you’re liable for subcontractors. Contractor's Plain-English Legal Guide includes a FREE CD-ROM with all the legal forms shown and explained in the book, plus extra forms with filled-out copies as examples. - more |
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Contractor's State License Guide -
Law & Business Exam - Here you’ll find all the information required for the law and business examination for the State of California. You’ll find how to answer questions on employee issues, contracts, job management, safety, insurance, bookkeeping, estimating, bid procedures, licensing, mechanic’s liens, and building codes. Includes sample exams to help you find the areas you need more work on. Designed for the California Contractor Exam, but should help raise your score on any state’s contractor exam. Also includes an audio CD study guide... more |
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DEWALT
Contractor's Forms &
Letters -The most comprehensive contractor’s forms and letters reference available comes with a CD-ROM that allows users to easily and effectively manage every area of their contracting business! This extraordinary CD resource contains a user-friendly interface in which all of the forms and letters are easy to find and utilize in both Microsoft Word and Excel formats. Together, the book and CD provide over 150 of the most useful forms and letters available on topics such as general company and staff communications, customer correspondence, accounting notices, and more |
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Dictionary of
Engineering - Derived from the world-renowned McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, Sixth Edition, this vital reference offers a wealth of essential information in a portable, convenient, quick-find format. Whether you’re a professional, a student, a writer, or a general reader with an interest in science, there is no better or more authoritative way to stay up-to-speed with the current language of the various branches of engineering or gain an understanding of their key ideas and concepts. Written in clear, simple language understandable to the general reader, yet in-depth enough for scientists, educators, and advanced students Carefully reviewed for clarity, completeness, and accuracy, the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Engineering, Second Edition, offers a standard of excellence unmatched by any similar publication. - more |
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Electrical Contractors'
Business Forms
Book
-40+ Essential Forms at your Fingertips!The Electrical Contractors' Business Forms Book is loaded with essential forms created just for the electrical industry. With 2 copies of each form, you'll have all you need to efficiently run your Electrical business. - more |
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Electrical Contractors'
Business Forms CD-ROM
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The Electrical Contractors' Business Forms CD-ROM is loaded with essential forms created just for the electrical industry. These forms will help ensure that your business transactions always look professional and organized. Available in both Adobe PDF and Microsoft Word format, you can fully customize each of the over 40 forms for quick and polished documents every time. - more info |
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Elevated Work Platforms and Scaffolding Job Site Safety Manual - ELEVATE CONSTRUCTION SITE SAFETY! Nowhere is construction site safety more at a
premium than on elevated work platforms and scaffoldings. Elevated
Work Platforms: Job Site Safety Manual, demonstrates how to keep
these areas as accident-free as possible. Perfect for architects, engineers, contractors, and attorneys, Elevated Work Platforms: Job Site Safety Manual is the one volume you need to stay on top of this essential construction site safety issue! - more |
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The Engineering Guide to LEED -New Construction
-The Engineering Guide to LEED-New Construction provides a solid understanding of the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED-NC rating system, explaining step-by-step how to apply it to real-world construction projects. This much-needed reference offers practical discussions of the main concepts of sustainability, and also presents detailed equations and exercises that can be used to perform the calculations outlined in LEED-NC. You will find authoritative information on sustainable sites…water efficiency… energy and atmosphere…materials and resources…indoor environmental quality…innovations in design…a systematic view of green…and many other topics related to sustainability in construction. - more |
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Estimating with Microsoft Excel
- Unlocking the Power
for Home Builders Create your own Customized Estimating Program! Most builders estimate with Excel because it's easy to learn, quick to use, and can be customized to your style of estimating. Here you'll find step-by-step how to create your own customized automated spreadsheet estimating program for use with Excel. You'll learn how to use the magic of Excel in creating detail sheets, cost breakdown summaries, and linking. You'll put this all to use in estimating concrete, rebar, permit fees, and roofing. You can even create your own macros. Includes a CD-ROM that illustrates examples in the book and provides you with templates you can use to set up your own estimating system. - more |
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Exam-Prep
Law & Business Management Question and Answer Learning Tool
CD-ROM - Review your knowledge of Business Law with this practice exam
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Forming an LLC
In Any State -
Complete Do-It-Yourself Kit to form
your LLC Professional legal advice from an experienced attorney and the experts at Entrepreneur magazine guides you through setting up a limited liability corporation. Recent developments in LLC laws are covered in detail. Reference tables for all 50 states and Washington, D.C., give entrepreneurs the information they need to select the most beneficial state—including state-specific laws, formation requirements, and costs. Attorney Michael Spadaccini details how to choose the most appropriate business entity and walks you through the process of planning, formation, and operation. The CD-ROM (included) provides invaluable forms to organize an LLC, including documents that would cost thousands of dollars if drafted by an attorney, and customizable financial templates. - more |
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Greenbook
Standard Specifications for Public Works Construction This unique book gives approved standards for all types of public works construction – from the depth of paving on roads to the adhesive used on pavement markers. The "Greenbook" standardizes public works plans and specs to provide guidelines for both cities and contractors so they can agree on construction practices used in public works and has been adopted by over 200 cities, counties, and agencies throughout the U.S. The Greenbook consists of six parts: General Provisions, Construction Materials, Construction Methods, Alternate Aggregate Materials, Pipeline System Rehabilitation, and Modified Asphalt Products. - more |
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Incorporate
Your Business In Any State -
A Complete Do-It-Yourself Kit for
Self-Incorporation Details on recent developments in corporation laws ensure entrepreneurs are up-to-date in their protection, and updated reference tables for each state provide customized state-specific information. Provides summaries of the most recent laws, requirements and costs for filing in all 50 states. With this expert legal advice from business attorney Michael Spadaccini, you can avoid the common missteps that plague corporation owners. Spadaccini walks you through the process of planning, forming, organizing, operating, and maintaining a basic for-profit corporation in any of the 50 states. - more |
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iphotoMEASURE - Accurate
Measurements from Photos! Unique software that brings picture measurements to your PC computer. Perfect for estimating projects or appraising building values. Simply place the DigiTarget (included) in the area to be measured and take a picture with any camera. Open the image in iphotomeasure and make one reference measurement. All other vertical and horizontal measurements are instantly scaled. Each measurement is saved, so you can print out or e-mail your image with the scaled measurements right on them. Can't take the picture yourself? Email the DigiTarget PDF file to your potential Customer and have them print it out, place it in the area and photograph it. They can email (or snailmail) you the resulting picture, saving time (and money) by not having to visit the site yourself. - more |
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Maintenance Manager's Standard
Manual - By: Thomas Westerkamp This book has everything you need to set up and run a building maintenance department. It shows you how to set up a maintenance management policy, how to train personnel, how to prepare a workable maintenance budget how to control and calculate labor costs, how to plan and schedule work, material, and space, how to conduct preventive maintenance, and how to maintain tools, building structures, machines, instruments, lighting, and more... |
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Markup & Profit: A Contractor's Guide
- At last, a book on how to figure the right markup for a construction company! This book gives you the key to operating a profitable, contracting business - figuring and using the correct markup on every job. It gives the simple mathematical principles and formulas that you can use, regardless of the type of work you do. This book gives you tried and tested formulas, with step-by-step instructions and easy-to-follow examples, so you can easily figure the markup that’s right for your business. Includes a CD-ROM with forms and checklists for your use. Learn from the book yourself, and then use it to train your sales staff, in marketing techniques and calculating markup on their sales. Use the sample problems in the back of the book to test your own understanding, and to check your employees' grasp of how to figure markup. - more |
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Mastering the UL
Fire Resistance Directory,
3 Vol DVD Video
Series w/Workbook -
Learning to master the the UL Directories of Fire Resistance has never been easier! Product Details Learn how to effectively use the UL Directory of Fire Resistance 2004 with this brand new set! This 3-Volume DVD Series and workbook will provide you with a complete understanding of how to use and interpret the UL Fire Directories. Being able to visually see how and when the UL Directory is applied will save you time, money, and frustration. Regardless of where in the construction process you participate -design, plan review, installation or code enforcement- all viewers will learn vital skills in applying fire resistive building requirements. Additional workbooks also available. - more info |
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National Construction Law
Manual - Here you’ll find in-depth coverage of just about every legal term someone may throw at you, what the true meanings of these terms are, and how they may apply to you in a construction business. Covers contracts, competent parties, legal object, letters of intent, certainty, consideration, illusory contract, mutual assent, offer and acceptance, delivery, contracts without words, options, duress, bidding, modification of forms, owner’s damages for defective construction, contractor’s damages for breach by owner, warranties, and just about every legal issue a contractor can face. Includes sample contracts, forms, and agreements - more |
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QuickPass CD-ROM for
the Law and Business Examination - This CD-ROM has over 300 multiple choice questions covering all the points covered in the actual California State Contractor’s Exam. You’ll learn the right answer and a full explanation of the basic principles involved in that question. Even if you guess the right answer, the explanation is given, so you learn the material in the test. Originally designed for the California exam, this CD-ROM can help anyone in any state pass the Law and Business Examination in their state. |
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Simplified Guide to
Construction Law - Here you’ll find easy-to-read, paragraphed-sized samples of how the courts have viewed common areas of disagreement – and litigation – in the building industry. You’ll read about legal problems that real builders have faced, and how the court ruled. This book will tell you what you need to know about contracts, torts, fraud, misrepresentation, warranty and strict liability, construction defects, indemnity, insurance, mechanics liens, bonds and bonding, statutes of limitation, arbitration, and more. These are simplified examples that illustrate not necessarily who is right and who is wrong – but who the law has sided with. Includes Sections On:
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Small
Claims Court Guidebook -
WIN in Small Claims Court!
This book is designed for you, the business owner. You are more likely than most to either become a defendant in a small claims case or need to bring a small claims case to court. The goal of this book is, quite simply, to help you win. Whether you're going to court to pursue or defend an action or making a demand for payment, there are many steps you can take to achieve the end result you want and this book will review them in detail. - more |
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Solar
Power in Building Design -Solar Power in Building Design is a complete guide to designing, implementing, and auditing energy-efficient, cost-effective solar power systems for residential, commercial, and industrial buildings. From basic theory through project planning, cost estimating, and manufacturing methods, this vital resource offers you everything needed for solar power design success. Filled with case studies and illustrations, this state-of-the-art design tool covers new solar technologies…design implementation techniques…energy conservation…the economics of solar power systems…passive solar heating power…and more |
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Standard Plans For
Public Works Construction - This visual reference, also updated and revised to comply with the Federal regulations for metric documentation, is the graphic companion to the "Greenbook." This book, along with the "Greenbook," sets the standard for quality and uniformity in public works construction.Hundreds of detailed drawings, cross sections, design criteria, and dimensions graphically depict all aspects of public works construction. Every dimension is listed in both feet/inches and metric equivalents. - more |
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Understanding Legal Aspects
of Code Administration
DVD
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LIMIT YOUR EXPOSURE! - This informative DVD will outline some of the legal concepts, theories, defenses and steps that city code enforcement officers can do to protect themselves. It covers the terminology, concepts and principles of legal issues that affect code officials in the administration of their duties. It will assist the code official, architect or contractor in understanding the legal concepts related to the model codes. The distinction between local, state and federal law and the impact that each has on the establishment and enforcement of the model codes will be addressed. The DVD focuses on the three main law concepts that the code official will encounter: Administrative, Constitutional and Property Law Liability. Intentional and Negligent Wrongdoing and Immunities also will be discussed. - more info |
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