In sports, there is a phenomenon that sometimes occurs when a team is leading towards the end of a game. It’s called “playing not to lose”.

The reason you are seeing high HDOP warnings from the NAVCEN and GPS “brownouts” during the day when RTK (GPS-only) isn’t working is because the GPS satellite constellation is sub-optimal. The current design of the GPS constellation is not focused on “playing to win”, but rather “playing not to lose”.

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Stantec has announced that it’s close to finalizing a deal to acquire Philadelphia- and New York-based healthcare facilities design specialist Granary Associates. The transaction is structured as an asset purchase and is expected to close, subject to certain conditions, in early November.

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The outlook for the general economy is improving, but that doesn’t mean good news for construction yet, reports FMI’s Construction Outlook, a quarterly, construction-market forecast and supplement to the U.S. Markets Construction Overview FMI has produced since 1985. Total construction in 2009 and 2010 will be down 14% and 5% respectively.

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All but 12 communities nationwide saw declines in construction employment between September 2008 and 2009 according to a new analysis of metropolitan area employment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released today by the Associated General Contractors of America. That analysis found more construction jobs were lost in Phoenix (35,100) than in any other city in America.

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Los Angeles’ North Central Animal Care Center has officially become the first LEED Gold certified animal shelter in the United States. An extensive remodel of the Center, first constructed in the early 1970s, was unveiled in October of 2006. Originally awarded silver certification, the addition of more sustainable features and their documentation has recently led to LEED Gold status confirmation by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC).

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Geneq Inc. introduced an OmniSTAR-compatible receiver for sub-meter mapping wherever OmniSTAR VBS is broadcast. The SXBlue II-L is capable of receiving OmniSTAR sub-meter corrections in all regions of the world including North/South America, Australia & Far East, Africa, Europe/West Asia, and the Middle East reinforcing Geneq’s “Go Real-time, All the time” strategy.

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Topcon Positioning Systems introduces two new products in its office software Master series — Topcon SiteMaster and Topcon SiteMaster Lite. Topcon SiteMaster is an integrated design, surface modeling and construction survey solution.

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The Autodesk, Inc., AEC headquarters in Waltham, Mass., designed by KlingStubbins and constructed by Tocci Building Co. using Building Information Modeling and an Integrated Project Delivery contract, was certified LEED-Platinum last week by the U.S. Green Building Council. The AEC headquarters project was featured last April in a BD+C feature story on IPD.

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