Researchers focused on the east of the island, where various resources are located, and looked at the distribution (分布) of 93 statues built before European sailors arrived in the 18th century. After finding no connection with the rock used for the construction, they considered whether the statu...
Since it is so versatile, asbestos could be found in a wide range of materials used in the construction industry. From the 1930s to the early 1980s, manyconstruction workershandled these products daily. As asbestos products such aspipesanddrywallwere cut, drilled, and installed, fibers could ...
Alex Six is an Enterprise & Strategic Civil & Infrastructure Overlay Account Executive for Procore. Alex has a long background in the construction industry beginning with an internship with one of the biggest contractors in the world, and expanding across projects with teams as small as 4 people...
The role of a materials engineer, Holm says, is to figure out what ingredients should be used to create a product and to "figure out how to make" that product with those particular ingredients. Materials engineers can work in nearly any industry,...
However, the phenomenon that the comparative advantage of manufacturing industry was weakened rapidly due to labor shortage and rapid wage rise after 2004 does not mean that the surplus labor force has been completely absorbed. In fact, demographic factors played the most important role in the forma...
It’s of paramount importance to know what makes them tick, what interests them, how much they know about your industry and what their needs are that you can fulfill. If your content does not address the right information, it won’t be interesting to your target audience and ...
If you want to build a home, you can’t use a regular mortgage to finance it (as there’s nothing to back the loan yet). But you can take out a construction loan — especially a construction-to-permanent loan, which converts to a traditional mortgage once you actually move into the ...
Construction workers need access to properly fitted PPE that is suitable for diverse body types. Although this need is inching closer to becoming an industry standard, there are still many hurdles before this practice becomes the norm. Employees should have equipment that can be adjusted or tailored...
For example, companies within the oil and gas industry, such as Exxon and Chevron, are competitors. Those same companies also fall under the primary sector since they both engage in the extraction of natural resources. However, Exxon or Chevron would not likely compete with companies involved in...
As a result, approximately two million workers in the construction industry became unemployed, adding to cyclical unemployment. The Fed responded by cutting interest rates and expanding monetary policy while the U.S. federal government enacted fiscal stimulus measures to jumpstart the ...