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Poseidon Hopper Barge
Poseidon Barge presents the newest addition to its offerings: the Poseidon Hopper Barge. It’s proven already to be the solution to contractors’ needs.
The Poseidon...
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Preparing the Next Generation of Green Professionals
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) Faculty program includes a diverse group of green building professionals—skilled facilitators who bring to life the concepts of...
Addressing Airborne Demolition Particles
A pioneer in industrial dust control helped a demolition firm contain fugitive dust emissions during the teardown of a 5-story concrete parking deck in...
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Construction sites face a multitude of potential challenges and crises throughout the year resulting from the weather. As we head into hurricane season, the...
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Don’t Get Stuck in Reverse
Reverse logistics is becoming an integral part of operations for manufacturers, distributors, and service providers to minimize lost revenue when moving products, parts, and...
Dynamic Duos: Working with Two Contractors on One Project
Contractors must be some of the best communicators in the professional services world. Everything we do relies on proper communication between our own team,...
Compensation Strategies: Keep Your Most Talented
With U.S. unemployment rates at generational lows, construction companies face one of the most severe talent shortages ever. Faced with this challenge, companies are...
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How the OSHA Silica Standard Challenged Manufacturers to Push Innovation
September 23 marked a year since the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) sought to bring worker protections into the forefront by starting to...
Four Steps to Keep Workers Safe in Severe Heat
Summer may be winding down, but in many regions, the heat hasn’t fully subsided yet. No one likes the feeling of being out in...
Comprehensive Emergency Lighting Systems
Isolite offers the Mini Genie, a compact specification-grade emergency lighting product that remains fully recessed behind two flat panel doors.
For electrical engineers responsible for...
Equipment Solutions
Understanding Steel Building Costs
Pre-engineered metal buildings can be customized for almost any application at almost any budget: manufacturing plants, warehouses, worship centers, retail shops, agricultural buildings, and...
The Ride to Success
From serving a few surrounding counties to spanning the entire Midwest, Catom Trucking has grown significantly over the years. But it isn’t catchy advertising...
John Deere SmartGrade™ Technology
Road building and site development contractors can now reap the benefits of John Deere SmartGrade™ in the highly successful G-Series motor grader line. SmartGrade...
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Leveraging Technology to Stay Connected and Competitive
Technology is changing the construction industry much faster than some firms can adapt. The 2016 Engineering and Construction Trends report from PWC emphasizes the...
Understanding Scissor Lift Technology
Scissor lifts have been cutting a path of productivity through the construction market since the 1970s. Although the designs haven’t changed drastically over the...
Reinventing Commercial Fire Detection
Protecting life, property, and reputation is now much easier for commercial facilities ranging from hospitals, universities, and indoor football practice fields to museums and...
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Maximizing Construction’s Year of Digital Transformation
As the second quarter comes to a close, the construction industry has much to be optimistic about. Construction is in the midst of a...
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The construction industry has a proud history of building new equipment to get difficult jobs done, but when it comes to embracing modern technology...
Taking IoT on the Voyage of Discovery
IoT has moved from nice to have to operationally critical. Using IoT to automate tasks can improve workforce efficiency, better utilize assets, and predict...
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Enforcement Begins on New Workplace Exam Rule
On October 1, 2018, enforcement began in earnest by the Mine Safety & Health Administration (MSHA) for its revised standard governing workplace examination requirements...
Costs for the Contractor’s Acceleration of Work
Contractor delays may occur in maintaining the construction schedule milestones or in achieving the overall completion date, or more accurately, the date of substantial...
Who’s In Charge?
In planning a construction project, one of the first decisions an owner must make is deciding who should be hired to manage and oversee...
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Leaving a Legacy
United States Olympic Museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado
Leaving a legacy often requires a lifelong fortitude of purpose and character that only the best among...
Chew It Up, Smooth It Out
The soil in central Indiana is fertile farmland. As the U.S. Department of Agriculture says in its Soil Survey Manual, prime farmland "has the...
Taking the “Lag” out of Lagoon Construction
A contracting company sitting atop Stony Mountain, Manitoba, Canada, named Earth Max Construction is gaining ground in a niche earthmoving market for Rural Municipalities’...
Maintenance Solutions
Self-Shielded Flux-Cored Welding
For structural applications, some contractors have made the switch from stick welding to self-shielded flux-cored welding to increase productivity and give themselves a competitive...
Adding Value: You Can’t Manage What You Can’t See
Have you ever asked yourself, “I wish my organization would just see the value our maintenance operations bring?” It may seem like the maintenance...
What to Consider When Adding Mobile Lube Equipment to Your Fleet
If your equipment isn’t working, you’re not making money, so it can be a real challenge to shut a machine off for routine service...
Product Releases
Modern Construction Products: October 2018
CHICAGO PNEUMATIC
Portable Compressor
Chicago Pneumatic Power Technique (CP) introduces the CPS 1800 JD8 T4F portable compressor, the largest in the CP lineup. Powered by a...
LIGCHINE INTERNATIONAL ScreedSaver PRO 220
Originally introduced in 2017 as the ScreedSaver MAX PRO, Ligchine International’s ScreedSaver PRO 220 offers the versatility of a mid-size screed paired with the...
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Featured Product
Poseidon Hopper Barge
Poseidon Barge presents the newest addition to its offerings: the Poseidon Hopper Barge. It’s proven already to be the solution to contractors’ needs.
The Poseidon...
Environmental Solutions
Preparing the Next Generation of Green Professionals
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) Faculty program includes a diverse group of green building professionals—skilled facilitators who bring to life the concepts of...
Addressing Airborne Demolition Particles
A pioneer in industrial dust control helped a demolition firm contain fugitive dust emissions during the teardown of a 5-story concrete parking deck in...
Plan of Action
Construction sites face a multitude of potential challenges and crises throughout the year resulting from the weather. As we head into hurricane season, the...
Managment Solutions
Don’t Get Stuck in Reverse
Reverse logistics is becoming an integral part of operations for manufacturers, distributors, and service providers to minimize lost revenue when moving products, parts, and...
Dynamic Duos: Working with Two Contractors on One Project
Contractors must be some of the best communicators in the professional services world. Everything we do relies on proper communication between our own team,...
Compensation Strategies: Keep Your Most Talented
With U.S. unemployment rates at generational lows, construction companies face one of the most severe talent shortages ever. Faced with this challenge, companies are...
Safety Solutions
How the OSHA Silica Standard Challenged Manufacturers to Push Innovation
September 23 marked a year since the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) sought to bring worker protections into the forefront by starting to...
Four Steps to Keep Workers Safe in Severe Heat
Summer may be winding down, but in many regions, the heat hasn’t fully subsided yet. No one likes the feeling of being out in...
Comprehensive Emergency Lighting Systems
Isolite offers the Mini Genie, a compact specification-grade emergency lighting product that remains fully recessed behind two flat panel doors.
For electrical engineers responsible for...
Equipment Solutions
Understanding Steel Building Costs
Pre-engineered metal buildings can be customized for almost any application at almost any budget: manufacturing plants, warehouses, worship centers, retail shops, agricultural buildings, and...
The Ride to Success
From serving a few surrounding counties to spanning the entire Midwest, Catom Trucking has grown significantly over the years. But it isn’t catchy advertising...
John Deere SmartGrade™ Technology
Road building and site development contractors can now reap the benefits of John Deere SmartGrade™ in the highly successful G-Series motor grader line. SmartGrade...
Technology Solutions
Leveraging Technology to Stay Connected and Competitive
Technology is changing the construction industry much faster than some firms can adapt. The 2016 Engineering and Construction Trends report from PWC emphasizes the...
Understanding Scissor Lift Technology
Scissor lifts have been cutting a path of productivity through the construction market since the 1970s. Although the designs haven’t changed drastically over the...
Reinventing Commercial Fire Detection
Protecting life, property, and reputation is now much easier for commercial facilities ranging from hospitals, universities, and indoor football practice fields to museums and...
Software Solutions
Maximizing Construction’s Year of Digital Transformation
As the second quarter comes to a close, the construction industry has much to be optimistic about. Construction is in the midst of a...
Best-In-Class Fleet Tracking
The construction industry has a proud history of building new equipment to get difficult jobs done, but when it comes to embracing modern technology...
Taking IoT on the Voyage of Discovery
IoT has moved from nice to have to operationally critical. Using IoT to automate tasks can improve workforce efficiency, better utilize assets, and predict...
Legal Solutions
Enforcement Begins on New Workplace Exam Rule
On October 1, 2018, enforcement began in earnest by the Mine Safety & Health Administration (MSHA) for its revised standard governing workplace examination requirements...
Costs for the Contractor’s Acceleration of Work
Contractor delays may occur in maintaining the construction schedule milestones or in achieving the overall completion date, or more accurately, the date of substantial...
Who’s In Charge?
In planning a construction project, one of the first decisions an owner must make is deciding who should be hired to manage and oversee...
Project Profiles
Leaving a Legacy
United States Olympic Museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado
Leaving a legacy often requires a lifelong fortitude of purpose and character that only the best among...
Chew It Up, Smooth It Out
The soil in central Indiana is fertile farmland. As the U.S. Department of Agriculture says in its Soil Survey Manual, prime farmland "has the...
Taking the “Lag” out of Lagoon Construction
A contracting company sitting atop Stony Mountain, Manitoba, Canada, named Earth Max Construction is gaining ground in a niche earthmoving market for Rural Municipalities’...
Maintenance Solutions
Self-Shielded Flux-Cored Welding
For structural applications, some contractors have made the switch from stick welding to self-shielded flux-cored welding to increase productivity and give themselves a competitive...
Adding Value: You Can’t Manage What You Can’t See
Have you ever asked yourself, “I wish my organization would just see the value our maintenance operations bring?” It may seem like the maintenance...
What to Consider When Adding Mobile Lube Equipment to Your Fleet
If your equipment isn’t working, you’re not making money, so it can be a real challenge to shut a machine off for routine service...
Product Releases
Modern Construction Products: October 2018
CHICAGO PNEUMATIC
Portable Compressor
Chicago Pneumatic Power Technique (CP) introduces the CPS 1800 JD8 T4F portable compressor, the largest in the CP lineup. Powered by a...
LIGCHINE INTERNATIONAL ScreedSaver PRO 220
Originally introduced in 2017 as the ScreedSaver MAX PRO, Ligchine International’s ScreedSaver PRO 220 offers the versatility of a mid-size screed paired with the...