Ramtech Modular Building Receives High Marks from Clary Sage College
Ramtech recently went back on the road north of the Red River with a video camera in tow to visit with some of our previous modular building school clients in and around the northern Oklahoma area. (more…)
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Modular Buildings in the Spotlight – Ramtech Announces YouTube Channel
Today Ramtech announced the official launch of The Modular Building Channel on YouTube. This move will further expand our Internet marketing efforts by developing a closer integration with our existing social media and other collateral marketing programs. Since 2005, YouTube has been the world’s leading online video community, allowing billions of people to discover, watch, and share originally created video material on the internet. (more…)
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Blue Ridge Middle School Celebrates Opening Day
An 18,088 square foot middle school facility for the Blue Ridge Independent School District, Blue Ridge, Texas opened the 2011/2012 school year this past Monday (8/29/2011). The building utilizes Ramtech’s Accelerated Building System which provides the speed, quality, and flexibility of prefabricated building components combined with the durability of an engineered slab-on-grade concrete foundation. (more…)
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Moving Forward While Taking a Look Back
As Ramtech moves ahead with the development of our hybrid construction program joining the Accelerated Building System (ABS) permanent modular building method with other forms of site construction, we took a look back at some previous steel building system and ABS projects to learn how the facilities were performing for three particular clients in the education, healthcare, and commercial environments. (more…)
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Is Design-Build Still a Preferred Delivery Method?
There have been discussions recently around the blogosphere that point to some evidence that the use of the design-build delivery system for construction has been declining lately, specifically on federal projects. The transparency requirements and reliance on ‘fixed-priced’ contracts from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (aka The Stimulus Act) were originally, and erroneously, thought to have restricted the use of design-build. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has also been cited as one agency that is pulling back from design-build. But is this the case for the federal government as a whole? Recent reports like this one indicate that it isn’t, and if you factor in the number of states that have adopted and changed their laws allowing it, design-build delivery would seem to have a pretty bright future. (more…)
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