WOMEN ENGINEERS INCH UP THE MANAGEMENT LADDER
It’s 2010! There’s no doubt that there are many more women in the workforce than there were in the 1950s – but have attitudes towards those women in traditionally male-dominated sectors like engineering really changed? Well, yes and no. Read on for a look at the gains – and remaining pain points – of the women making inroads in engineering.
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Getting and Keeping Customers via Online Collaboration
Brian Javeline first held forth on the challenges of leading (dragging?) reluctant contractors into the technology era in March of 2008. Since then, simpler tools and disappearing alternatives (you’re reading this online; are you still getting all your trade magazines in the regular mail?) have really put the pressure on for contractors to get onboard with getting online. How’s that working for you? Brian checks in again in 2010! Read More

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Limitation of Liability Clause in Engineer’s
Contract Enforced in Georgia  
An engineering firm performed soil studies and rendered an opinion on the suitability of using septic systems in a residential subdivision being developed by its client.  The client sued the engineer on the basis of allegedly inaccurate conclusions.  The engineer successfully moved for summary judgment to enforce a limitation of liability (LoL) clause in its contract.  According to the Georgia Court of Appeals, the clause was a reasonable allocation of risk negotiated between two companies with equal bargaining position and it was not contrary to public policy or any state statute.  Read More  
 

Industry News

Architectural Record:  Clinic Made of Freight Containers Heads to Haiti
As the efforts to rebuild Haiti after its devastating January 12 earthquake inch along, a medical clinic is headed to the island nation that can be set up quickly and opened straight away.  Pre-built inside a pair of 20-foot-long steel shipping containers that can be loaded onto boats, the clinic is set to arrive in Port-au-Prince around the beginning of June, according to Containers to Clinics, the Dover, Massachusetts-based nonprofit that developed it.  Read More 

ENR:  The Top 400 Contractors
For the past year, construction firms have been searching for signs that the recession, which began over two years ago, was abating. Those signs continue to be few and far between. So the largest U.S. contractors now are settling into a waiting game, scrambling to increase their market shares, moving into new markets and taking a good look at how they do business to make sure that, when the market does rebound, they are ready. Read More

GreenSource: Picking up the PACE
A new finance model could help rev up energy upgrades in buildings across the US.  The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 has to date provided about $31 billion for clean-energy investments, creating green jobs (see "Retrofit Revolution," March/April 2010), weatherizing low-income homes, and supporting renewable energy. While the ARRA is a good start towards the transition to a green economy, it is limited in its scope. "We need financing from the private sector. The stimulus is an improvement, but it’s still not enough. Here enters the PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy) bond," says Jack D. Hidary, who serves on the national steering committee for PACENow.org.  Read More