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Few working people accept Karl Marx’s old saw that "productivity" means working longer and harder. Still, much of the construction industry hesitates to endorse important ideas introduced at about the time of Marx’s death. In the 1880s in the U.S., Frederick W. Taylor urged finding ways to work "smarter." More than a century later, the industry remains archaic in many of its practices, with too many construction officials suspicious about the value of measuring productivity on the jobsite. Consider a recent experience of mine: While visiting a powerplant project, I listened to a familiar claim: "We’re giving it 100% and
希望助教ke a fast multibillion-dollar ride to a dead end? Taxpayers soon will if the Federal Railroad Administration continues to railroad through plans for the nation's first commercial train operated with magnetic levitation. Seven authorities in six states shared a first-round allocation of $12.2 million in maglev planning awards. Last month in one of its last acts, the Clinton administration promised up to $55 million in second-round funds to both the Pittsburgh and Washington-Baltimore areas to refine plans for a maglev pilot project. Whichever area succeeds may receive another $950 million under the 1998 Transportation Equity Act for the
如果政客们真的想解决加利福尼亚当前的能源危机,他们必须撤消工会和项目劳动协议造成的人工短缺。十多年前,许多肉鸡和一些工会承包商开始抱怨一种新的策略,迫使电力生产者仅使用工会承包商。当时,加利福尼亚州圣马特奥的律师托马斯·R·亚当斯(Thomas R. Adams)和托马斯·J·亨特(Thomas J.新利18备用网址讨价还价,就他们的仅工会项目劳动协议就。以前,Plas有
Last month, details of a federal probe into alleged environmental data fraud by a Texas laboratory were splashed across the front pages of the national press (ENR October 2 issue p. 12). Prosecutors said the possible faulty data by Intertek Testing Services Environmental Laboratories Inc. could affect thousands of waste sites. The story didn't have any particular impact on me. I don't own a lab company, and I don't work for one. But as a long-time business consultant in the environmental services industry, it pains me to see some of the ill-informed or wrong-headed reactions to this incident. Some impressions