Allplan Engineering 2017 Webinar

Given the physical wear and tear associated with construction work, builders are susceptible to opioid abuse. Almost one in six construction workers uses illicit drugs, and industry opioid spend is 5 percent to 10 percent above every other industry. If that weren’t concerning enough, consider the growing national opioid crisis and the full legalization of marijuana in Canada and its rapidly growing medicinal and recreational legalization in the United States.

Subcontractors are increasingly using mobile technology and software to run projects more efficiently. By using technology to document work and access information from anywhere, subcontractors not only empower their teams to be more productive, but mitigate risk and deliver more consistent project outcomes on their own terms. Watch this on-demand webinar to hear from a panel representing a variety of trades including electrical, mechanical, and concrete on how they started using field technology and how it has benefitted their teams.

Industrial buildings with overhead cranes present a particular set of challenges for structural designers. The crane manufacturers design the proprietary framing and nonstructural components of the cranes themselves. The design of crane supports, however, belongs to the building structural engineers. These engineers often have many questions about structural requirements for the buildings intended to house overhead cranes. What type of overhead crane is best suited for the application at hand? Which support scheme is optimal for the desired crane capacity? Is the structural frame rigid enough for a trouble-free operation of the crane? What if there are a number of cranes within the building? Which deflection criteria should be used for runway girders? Can an over-head crane be added into an existing metal building system? And just how much headroom and lateral clearance is needed for the proposed crane type and capacity? The webinar discusses these and many other practical issues involved in the design of buildings with overhead cranes. It covers the most common types of overhead cranes used in industrial buildings, such as monorails, under-hung cranes, and top-running cranes. For each crane type the instructor discusses the range of the available capacities and the support alternatives for structural-steel and pre-engineered buildings. You will learn about the design criteria for crane runway beams and discover the publicly available software and sources for the design of crane girders, monorail-supporting beams, and stepped columns.

Investment in Intelligent Automation (IA) by companies is growing at a rapid rate with specialist in-house teams springing up in businesses across all sectors. The quick wins of efficiency and cost savings are the most common starting point for these programs and the first target is outsourced services that are currently handling large volumes of repetitive tasks. EDF Energy dialed down 200 outsourced FTEs within a year, and many others are doing the same.