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Research from the 2025 MEP Innovation Conference, provided by Dodge Data. This research covers software tools and technology use in the MEP trades.

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Results from a live survey at the 2024 MEP Innovation Conference. This report includes insight on BIM & Technology, business processes, technology, tools and popularity of business processes.

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Results from a live survey at the 2025 MCAA Fabrication Conference. This survey covers fab practices, software, expansion and process for coordination, design and pre-fabrication.

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What is Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion (MIC) and why do contractors need to know anything about it? Well, it turns out that MIC can negatively affect your profits.

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On occasion we get questions from our members who would like to use backing flux in lieu of purging when making welds on stainless steel or other corrosion resistant materials. This bulletin describes an experiment conducted by NCPWB Consultant Walter Sperko where he had a colleague make stainless steel butt welds without any protection of the root of the weld, with inert gas backing, with backing flux and with flux-coated wire.

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The E6010 electrode is a wire encased in cellulose held together with salts and minerals. These electrodes penetrate better than low-hydrogen electrodes like E7018 when making root passes, making it easier to make a good root pass. However, E6010 introduces hydrogen into the weld creating a risk of cracking, and this article shows when its use should be limited.