Popping the Cork

Spray-on cork finish for building exterior Available for the North Texas market is a green building product from ECOSHIELD INTERNATIONAL: spray-on Thermal CorkShield™. It’s a...

Limiting Worker Exposure

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) & Co. released its new industry cold milling guidelines designed to reduce airborne silica particles...

Pollution Risk

By Jane Marsh According to Statista, the construction industry is one of the largest globally, employing more than 11 million people in the United States...

Dust, Noise, or Vibration

Increased awareness of environmental issues around demolition and construction sites has resulted in growing numbers of local complaints by nearby residents—especially when visible dust...

Close Encounters

I remember getting a call one day from my safety director who was working with our crew in Texas. His exact words to me were,...

Sustainable Building

The number of buildings in the world is ever-growing as populations expand in urban areas. In fact, it’s been predicted that the building and...
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Concrete Production

Concrete is the foundation of most of our infrastructure. However, the process of concrete production has remained relatively unchanged for decades. From creating and...

The Reality of Green Cements

You would have had to have just emerged from a recently unsealed time capsule, or perhaps just completed a 10-year retreat in Tibet, not...

Keeping North Carolina’s Coastal Waterways Navigable

The North Carolina Department of Transportation took delivery of a new, fully customized cutter suction dredge, which it christened the Dredge Manteo, in a...

Airborne Dust Solution

Originally constructed in 1936, Doyle Drive is a busy thoroughfare that carries thousands of cars per hour in peak traffic periods. In 1990, it...