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A shrinking pool of quality employee candidates has made it increasingly difficult to hire good people for your business. A band of inferior hopefuls stand outside your door, hoping to gain entry and wreak havoc in your business – you represent the only barrier that keeps them from coming through. Being able to see through their smoke and mirrors will improve the odds of hiring someone that will represent you and your company well.
This paper will describe the fundamentals of MasterFormat™ 2004 and how its use can simplify the specification writing process. MasterFormat™ 2004 is jointly produced by the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI), and Construction Specifications Canada (CSC). Contractors, Owners and Specifiers can all benefit from the use of these guiding principles of specification development, especially when surface preparation, hazardous remediation, and coatings and linings are part of a larger overall scope of work.
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US Marines are known and respected the world over for their leadership ability. How do they do it? What do they know that enables them to be such successful leaders on active duty and then in the civilian sector? This paper, based on the book of the same name, reveals the nine essential behaviors that make up the foundation of leadership.
As a means of surface preparation for protective coatings, abrasive blasting provides proper surface roughness and increases the surface area, which are critical in achieving physical and chemical adhesion between steel surface and organic coatings. For application of high-performance coating in a new shipbuilding, the abrasive blasting cleaning is widely favored primarily because of its economic and performance benefits. The abrasive blasting, however, also requires the significant amount of labor hour, whereas its efficiency mainly depends on the blaster’s skill.