Construction Engineering

If you want to start making more money as a painter and decorator, improving your sales and marketing is the key. If you don’t take your sales and marketing seriously, you are leaving thousands of dollars per year on the table. Creating advertisements, crafting proposals, and selling your services at the highest level is the fastest way to increase your profits. This book will guide you through everything you need to know about sales and marketing for your decorating business.

Incredible experiences as told in a series of 22 short stories covering a 40-year career in Heavy Civil Construction. Most of us love to watch new buildings going up. There’s something about the whole process and the cranes, earthmovers and daredevil nature of scaffold climbing that appeals on a primal level. That same fascination is likely to extend behind-the-scenes to the unusual things that actually happen on construction sites; particularly when matched with the storytelling skills of a 40-year construction professional.

You will be introduced to what is achievable today in technology that has massive implications and applications for senior living care and design. Imagine 19 years ago and your first experience with the internet, 7 years ago and your experience with your phone. How the internet and iPhone have changed our connection to each other and the information available to us in seconds - it is a drop in the bucket to the disruptive changes coming. This is going to be a wonderful ride if you're prepared for it!

Precision Construction introduces Internet of things (IoT) fundamentals with a construction-industry focus, providing a vendor-neutral, acronym-free framework for understanding IoT. Illustrated through eight real-world case stories, Precision Construction describes how IoT and emerging technologies like augmented reality and robotics are improving business for contractors, rental agencies, manufacturers, and suppliers.

When you listen to Shipping Container Homes - Steps and Strategies to Building or Buying Your Own Dream Shipping Container Home, you'll discover everything you need to know about this unique and exciting way of life. When you join the growing number of people choosing this method to owning their dream home, you'll enjoy many benefits.

The demolition of Penn Station in 1963 destroyed not just a soaring neoclassical edifice, but also a building that commemorated one of the last century's great engineering feats: the construction of railroad tunnels into New York City. Now, in this gripping narrative, Jill Jonnes tells this fascinating story - a high-stakes drama that pitted the money and will of the nation's mightiest railroad against the corruption of Tammany Hall, the unruly forces of nature, and the machinations of labor agitators.