Many remember the challenges they had operating early generations of electric hand drills or other battery-powered tools—the batteries would drain quickly, or these tools...

From RMIT University Digital manufacturing technologies like 3D concrete printing (3DCP) have immense potential to save time, effort, and material in construction. They also promise...

Building air barriers Twenty years ago, Mike Young was working as a successful carpenter and bricklayer in Nova Scotia. As the years progressed and he...

Serving the San Francisco Bay Area for more than 70 years, Central Concrete Supply Co., Inc., a Northern California business unit of U.S. Concrete,...

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...

Saving money on your flooring installation isn’t about choosing the cheapest contractor and products—it’s about engineering value at every stage of the process. From...

Drones have become invaluable for collecting data from the hardest-to-reach places on a jobsite. Recent technological advancements have made drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs),...

Traditionally, highway resurfacing projects have been a challenge, not only for the contractor, but the inconvenienced community through which the road passes. To collect...

While advanced materials, triple glazing, and air-tight envelopes have improved insulation efficiency, large amounts of heat energy continue to escape the building unimpeded through...

Mecalac, a leading global designer, manufacturer and distributor of compact construction equipment for urban environments, announces its fleet management system, MyMecalac, is available in...