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Friday, May 11th, 2012
The Environmental Protection Agency recently created a general permit for stormwater runoff from construction sites. The new permit – titled the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) - went into effect on February 16, 2012.
For more information, refer to the following: FR Notice (PDF) (8 pp, 180K).
The 2012 CGP replaced the 2008 CGP, which expired on February 15, 2012. This new permit will provide coverage for eligible new and existing construction projects for a period of five years.
Features of the 2012 Construction General Permit (CGP)
• The 2012 CGP includes a number of modifications to the 2008 CGP, many of which are necessary to implement the new Effluent Limitations Guidelines and New Source Performance Standards for Construction and Development point sources, known as the “C&D rule.”
• Does not include turbidity limits.
For background on the EPA’s original rule and related legal wrangling, see EPA to Reconsider Key Aspect of Construction Stormwater Rule, by attorneys Meline MacCurdy and Russell Prugh of Marten Law (September 30, 2010).
If you have any questions about the EPA Proposed Stormwater Rule or if you have a construction project that you need completed right the first time, please contact Reliable Contracting by calling 410-987-0313 or visit our website.
Reliable Contracting maintains a reputation as a leader in the construction industry. Our clientele includes builders, developers, individuals and government agencies. With projects ranging in cost from $10,000 to over $10 million, Reliable can be seen working on Maryland’s roads, highways, airports, office parks, shopping centers, hospitals, churches, and residential neighborhoods earning our reputation by providing clients with consistent quality and dedication to their projects.
Reliable Contracting Company serves the following and surrounding Counties: Annapolis, Queen Anne’s, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Calvert, Caroline, Charles, Howard, Prince George, St. Mary’s, Talbot, and Washington D.C.
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EPA Pushing for New Construction Stormwater Rule
EPA Submits Permit for Construction Sites Minus Turbidity Limits for Stormwater Runoff
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Friday, March 23rd, 2012
Simply put, storm water runoff, which occurs naturally, is rain or snowmelt that flows over land and does not percolate into the soil. Manmade surfaces, such as roads, sidewalks, and parking lots, can greatly alter the natural hydrology of the land by increasing the volume, velocity, and temperature of runoff and by decreasing its infiltration capacity.
- In nature, storm water is absorbed by the soil, which acts as a natural filter, removing harmful toxins. Then, the now harmless storm water seeps into streams, ponds, lakes, and underground aquifers.
- In urban areas, storm water falls directly on cement and asphalt pavements and has nowhere to filter out harmful contaminants. As a result, those contaminants are washed into waterways without undergoing natural filtration.
This is a very serious problem that can result in severe stream bank erosion, flooding, and the degradation of the biological habitat of these streams.
Other Ways Storm Water Runoff Impacts Us
- Reducing infiltration can lower ground water levels
- Reducing infiltration can affect drinking water supplies
- As storm water runoff moves across surfaces, it picks up trash, debris, and pollutants such as sediment, oil and grease, pesticides and other toxins.
- Changes in ambient water temperature, sediment, and pollutants from storm water runoff can be detrimental to aquatic life, wildlife, habitat, and human health.
Storm Water Runoff and the Construction Industry
The soil exposed by construction is especially vulnerable to excessive erosion. In fact, runoff from an unstabilized construction site can result in the loss of approximately 35–45 tons of sediment per acre each year (ASCE and WFF, 1992). This excess sediment clouds the water and reduces the amount of sunlight that is able to reach underwater plants, clog fish gills, smother aquatic habitats, etc.
If you have any questions about the Storm Water Runoff or if you have a construction project that you need completed right the first time, please contact Reliable Contracting by calling 410-987-0313 or visit our website. And be sure to check back here next week to learn how construction workers can stop storm water pollution.
Reliable Contracting maintains a reputation as a leader in the construction industry. Our clientele includes builders, developers, individuals and government agencies. With projects ranging in cost from $10,000 to over $10 million, Reliable can be seen working on Maryland’s roads, highways, airports, office parks, shopping centers, hospitals, churches, and residential neighborhoods earning our reputation by providing clients with consistent quality and dedication to their projects.
Reliable Contracting Company serves the following and surrounding Counties: Annapolis, Queen Anne’s, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Calvert, Caroline, Charles, Howard, Prince George, St. Mary’s, Talbot, and Washington D.C.
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Thursday, February 9th, 2012
Often time in life, we take the inventions and innovations around us for granted. For instance, when is the last time you really sat there and thought about how a light bulb works, or where you would be if it were never invented? What about your computer? Most of us cannot function nowadays without our computer, laptop, or smartphone. And then there are those innovations that make our lives easier that we rarely ever notice, like asphalt; it’s everywhere from shingles and sidewalks to driveways, roads, and more. In fact, over 750 million tons of asphalt is poured and rolled every year in the USA, alone.
But where did asphalt come from?
Asphalt Facts
• Asphalt occurs naturally in asphalt lakes and rock asphalt.
• Asphalts first recorded use was in Babylon in 625 B.C. in the formation of roads.
• The ancient Greeks and Romans used asphalt to seal their baths, reservoirs, and aqueducts. In fact, the word asphalt comes from the Greek word “asphaltos”, meaning “secure.” The Romans later changed the word to “asphaltus.”
• Sir Walter Raleigh wrote about using natural asphalt to re-caulk his ships in 1595.
• Then, in the mid 1800’s, John Loudon McAdam used hot tar to bond broken stones together.
• In the late 1860s, “asphalt” came to America!
• The first bituminous mixtures were used for sidewalks, crosswalks, and roads.
• Then in 1870, Edmund J. DeSmedt laid the first true asphalt pavement in America, a sand mix in front of the City Hall in Newark, New Jersey.
Since then time, asphalt has really taken off.
If you have any questions about Asphalt or if you have a construction project that you need completed right the first time, please contact Reliable Contracting by calling 410-987-0313 or visit our website.
Reliable Contracting maintains a reputation as a leader in the construction industry. Our clientele includes builders, developers, individuals and government agencies. With projects ranging in cost from $10,000 to over $10 million, Reliable can be seen working on Maryland’s roads, highways, airports, office parks, shopping centers, hospitals, churches, and residential neighborhoods earning our reputation by providing clients with consistent quality and dedication to their projects.
Reliable Contracting Company serves the following and surrounding Counties: Annapolis, Queen Anne’s, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Calvert, Caroline, Charles, Howard, Prince George, St. Mary’s, Talbot, and Washington D.C.
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Friday, February 3rd, 2012
The National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA) first introduced warm-mix asphalt (WMA) to the United States in 2002 after WMA grew in popularity in Europe. This new technology instantly spurred interest for government agencies, researchers, contractors, and especially hot-mix asphalt producers.
Warm-mix asphalt allows producers of asphalt pavement material to lower the temperatures – by as much as 100 degrees Fahrenheit – at which the material is mixed and placed on the road.
Benefits of Warm-Mix Asphalt
•Lowers fuel consumption
•Drastically decreases the production of greenhouse gases
• Reduces the production of emissions
• Improves working conditions for asphalt pavers
Looking for an asphalt contractor in Maryland? Then turn to Reliable Contracting!
Reliable Contracting operates three asphalt plants in Anne Arundel County, affording us unequalled reach for commercial asphalt projects in the Baltimore, Annapolis and Washington D.C. metropolitan areas. By controlling the raw paving materials, asphalt production, trucking, and installation, Reliable can provide complete single-source solutions for your Maryland asphalt paving project.
Reliable can produce all of today’s high-performance asphalt paving products, or can tailor a mix or installation to suit your project’s specific needs. Our accredited quality control lab and certified technicians ensure consistency while our experienced plant and field crews deliver a final product of which you and we can be proud. To finish off your job, we also offer parking lot striping, signage, parking bumpers and speed bumps.
If you have any questions about Warm-Mix Asphalt or if you have a construction project that you need completed right the first time, please contact Reliable Contracting by calling 410-987-0313 or visit our website.
Reliable Contracting maintains a reputation as a leader in the construction industry. Our clientele includes builders, developers, individuals and government agencies. With projects ranging in cost from $10,000 to over $10 million, Reliable can be seen working on Maryland’s roads, highways, airports, office parks, shopping centers, hospitals, churches, and residential neighborhoods earning our reputation by providing clients with consistent quality and dedication to their projects.
Reliable Contracting Company serves the following and surrounding Counties: Annapolis, Queen Anne’s, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Calvert, Caroline, Charles, Howard, Prince George, St. Mary’s, Talbot, and Washington D.C.
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
Asphalt is one of the most commonly used paving materials around. Its waterproofing and binding properties make it an ideal material for road and parking lot construction. But what many people do not know is that asphalt is also recyclable.
When old asphalt roads are replaced, the old asphalt can be reused. This is not only better for the environment (it requires less new material), but it is better for your wallet, as well! Other benefits of using recycled asphalt include:
Environmentally Friendly: As we already mentioned, recycled asphalt is much better for the environment than using new asphalt. Recycling asphalt reduces the need for new asphalt and thus new oil. Asphalt is derived from the remnants of oil and mixed with sand and stone in order to created a strong material for paving.
Economic Benefits: Since asphalt is made using petroleum, its price fluctuates with the price of oil. Using recycled asphalt will save you money!
Engineering Benefits: Recycled asphalt can be added into both “hot mix” and “cold mix” asphalt. The Colorado Asphalt Pavement Association has even come out to say that pavement mixes using recycled asphalt sometimes have superior performances than those made with virgin materials.
Some More Fun Facts: Did you know that up to 25 percent of the asphalt in some states is made up of recycled asphalt? Pretty interesting, huh? The Colorado Asphalt Pavement Association reports that 90 million tons of asphalt is recycled annually, saving taxpayers over $300 million each year.
If you have any questions or remarks or if you wish to discuss this matter further, please comment. We at Reliable Contracting want to know what you think. You can also contact Reliable Contracting by calling 410-987-0313 or visit our website.
Reliable Contracting maintains a reputation as a leader in the construction industry. Our clientele includes builders, developers, individuals and government agencies. With projects ranging in cost from $10,000 to over $10 million, Reliable can be seen working on Maryland’s roads, highways, airports, office parks, shopping centers, hospitals, churches, and residential neighborhoods earning our reputation by providing clients with consistent quality and dedication to their projects.
Reliable Contracting Company serves the following and surrounding Counties: Annapolis, Queen Anne’s, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Calvert, Caroline, Charles, Howard, Prince George, St. Mary’s, Talbot, and Washington D.C.
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Friday, January 20th, 2012
Recently, Governor Martin O’Malley proposed a Project Labor Agreement (PLA) for the Detention Center in Cheltenham, Prince George’s County. Such labor agreements discriminate against merit shop contractors and disadvantaged businesses, making it hard for them to submit bids and potentially win construction contracts. Union-only PLAs are also incredibly unfair to women-owned and minority-owned business, both of which are traditionally underrepresented by unions, mainly due to artificial and societal barriers in union membership and union apprenticeship and training programs.
PLAs include the following provisions that typically discourage merit shop contractors and other non-union companies from working on PLA projects:
•PLAs require non-union companies with their own benefit plans to pay their employees’ health and welfare benefits to union trust funds. Thus, companies have to pay benefits twice: once to the union and once to the company. Workers never see any of the benefits sent to the unions unless they decide to leave their non-union employer and remain with the union until vested.
•PLAs require non-union companies to obtain apprentices exclusively from union apprenticeship programs. Participants in federal and state-approved non-union apprenticeship programs cannot work on a job covered by a PLA. This means craft professional enrolled in a non-union apprenticeship programs are excluded from work in their hometowns.
•PLAs require non-union companies to obtain their workers from union hiring halls. This means a non-union company has to send its own employees to the union hiring hall and hope the union sends the same workers back.
•Non-union workers may have to pay union dues and fees or join a union in order to work on a PLA project.
According to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics’ most recent data, unionized private construction workers currently make up just 15.6 percent of all of America’s private construction workforce. This means union-only PLAs would prevent more than 8 out of 10 construction workers from being employed for said projects who would otherwise gain work from construction projects.
Furthermore, union-only PLAs drive up the cost of construction projects by unnecessarily limiting bidders and following inefficient union work rules. Several academic studies indicate PLAs increase the cost of construction between 10 and 20 percent when compared to similar projects not subject to union-only PLAs.
So why is Governor O’Malley proposing a PLA for the Detention Center?
If you have any questions or remarks or if you wish to discuss this matter further, please comment. We at Reliable Contracting want to know what you think. You can also contact Reliable Contracting by calling 410-987-0313 or visit our website.
Reliable Contracting maintains a reputation as a leader in the construction industry. Our clientele includes builders, developers, individuals and government agencies. With projects ranging in cost from $10,000 to over $10 million, Reliable can be seen working on Maryland’s roads, highways, airports, office parks, shopping centers, hospitals, churches, and residential neighborhoods earning our reputation by providing clients with consistent quality and dedication to their projects.
Reliable Contracting Company serves the following and surrounding Counties: Annapolis, Queen Anne’s, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Calvert, Caroline, Charles, Howard, Prince George, St. Mary’s, Talbot, and Washington D.C.
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Friday, January 13th, 2012
Following the terrorist attacks of September 11th, several industries began to make drastic changes to the way they conducted business. Airlines, the Transportation Security Administration, varying other security agencies, and even the construction industry started questioning their current systems, realizing there were some inherent flaws. For the construction industry, the primary question raised following 9/11 was this:
Why did the towers collapse?
Now, after nearly 5 years of research and $40 million, we finally have answers. From those answers, we have been given recommendations on how to improve high-rise building design and functionality. These recommendations were developed to address any potential emergency situation – including earthquakes, widespread power outages, tornadoes and other events – not just another terrorist attack.
The recommendations found in the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) report are broken into eight subject areas. They are:
•Increased structural integrity.
•Enhanced fire resistance of structures.
•New methods for fire resistant design of structures.
•Improved active fire protection.
•Improved building evacuation.
• Improved emergency response.
•Improved procedures and practices.
•Continuing education and training.
While it is unlikely that all of these recommendations will go into full effect, becoming actual building codes, it is obvious that there is a need for change.
If you have any questions or if you have a construction project that you need completed right the first time, please contact Reliable Contracting by calling 410-987-0313 or visit our website.
Reliable Contracting maintains a reputation as a leader in the construction industry. Our clientele includes builders, developers, individuals and government agencies. With projects ranging in cost from $10,000 to over $10 million, Reliable can be seen working on Maryland’s roads, highways, airports, office parks, shopping centers, hospitals, churches, and residential neighborhoods earning our reputation by providing clients with consistent quality and dedication to their projects.
Reliable Contracting Company serves the following and surrounding Counties: Annapolis, Queen Anne’s, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Calvert, Caroline, Charles, Howard, Prince George, St. Mary’s, Talbot, and Washington D.C.
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Friday, January 6th, 2012
Founded in 1950 in Baltimore, Maryland, Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc. (ABC) has since grown to become a national organization with 75 chapters throughout the United States covering all specialties within the construction industry. ABC chapters represent 23,000 merit shop construction and construction-related firms, primarily in the industrial and commercial sectors of the industry.
ABC is recognized as one of the leading organizations representing America’s business community and the merit shop construction industry.
ABC’s activities include:
• Government representation
• Legal advocacy
• Education
•Workforce development
• Communications
•Technology
•Recognition through national and chapter awards programs
• Employee benefits
•Information on best practices and business development through an online contractor search directory
ABC’s mission is to promote and defend merit shop philosophy within the construction industry, encouraging open competition and a free-enterprise approach to construction based solely on merit. This means that construction projects should be awarded to the company or contractor who is best qualified, not just the one who provides the lowest quote.
So when you hire an ABC affiliated contractor, you know you are getting the best man (or woman) for the job! That is why Reliable Contracting is a proud member of Associated Builders and Contractors, Chesapeake Chapter.
Reliable Contracting maintains a reputation as a leader in the construction industry. Our clientele includes builders, developers, individuals and government agencies. With projects ranging in cost from $10,000 to over $10 million, Reliable can be seen working on Maryland’s roads, highways, airports, office parks, shopping centers, hospitals, churches, and residential neighborhoods earning our reputation by providing clients with consistent quality and dedication to their projects.
If you have any questions about ABC or if you have a construction project that you need completed right the first time, please contact Reliable Contracting by calling 410-987-0313 or visit our website.
Reliable Contracting Company serves the following and surrounding Counties: Annapolis, Queen Anne’s, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Calvert, Caroline, Charles, Howard, Prince George, St. Mary’s, Talbot, and Washington D.C.
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Friday, January 6th, 2012
Every building project begins with one very important decision; choosing the right commercial construction contractor. Choose the wrong commercial contractor and your entire project suffers (not to mention your wallet). Choose the right contractor and the sky is the limit!
So when searching for the ideal commercial contracting candidate, there are several attributes to look for. These include:
Business-like Demeanor: In any professional setting, even in the construction industry, it is important to carry one’s self in a professional and business-like manner. This means showing up on time, adhering to the agreed upon construction schedule, remaining organized, and more.
Communication: A good working relationship is important. You need your contractor to understand your vision and your goals and to take your project as seriously as you do. Without good communication, you may begin to feel like you are no longer a part of your own project.
Experience, Skills, and Reputation: Construction, especially commercial construction can be a very complex task. Skills and especially experience are key attributes in the commercial construction industry. Furthermore, be sure that your potential contractor has experience in the type of construction work you need done.
Don’t be afraid to ask for referrals and recommendations. These are great indicators of both experience and skill level.
Business Practices: Ask to see a certificate of insurance to ensure your potential contractor has the necessary coverage (including liability insurance and workers’ compensation). Also call the state licensing board to check on your contractor’s license. Was it ever suspended? If so, why? Are their any claims against this contractor? If so, what?
If you have any questions or if you have a construction project that you need completed right the first time, please contact Reliable Contracting by calling 410-987-0313 or visit our website.
Reliable Contracting maintains a reputation as a leader in the construction industry. Our clientele includes builders, developers, individuals and government agencies. With projects ranging in cost from $10,000 to over $10 million, Reliable can be seen working on Maryland’s roads, highways, airports, office parks, shopping centers, hospitals, churches, and residential neighborhoods earning our reputation by providing clients with consistent quality and dedication to their projects.
Reliable Contracting Company serves the following and surrounding Counties: Annapolis, Queen Anne’s, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Calvert, Caroline, Charles, Howard, Prince George, St. Mary’s, Talbot, and Washington D.C.
You can also follow us on Facebook and Twitter!
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