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The Contractor's Best Friend Podcast Season 4 Episode 9: Take Time for Training

Pinnacle Development Group,Inc

Despite a solid effort across the industry, construction contractors should be investing more time and money in training both new and veteran construction employees.

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TVH Americas Wins Kansas City Industrial Council Sustainability Award

TVH Parts Americas

The KCIC Sustainability Awards program recognizes and promotes sustainable practices by businesses in the Kansas City metropolitan area.

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Big Gain in September Residential Construction Spending Offsets Nonresidential Drop

The total value of construction put in place edged up for a fourth month of U.S. construction expansions carried by residential expansion

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CEMEX and Carbon Upcycling to Use Nanotechnology to Produce Low Emission Concrete

The technology developed seeks to increase industrial by-products availability with cementitious qualities, like fly ash and slag, to produce concretes with a low CO2 footprint.

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How Payload Management Systems Speed Production

Prevent wasted time and excessive wear and tear due to misloading trucks.

The John Deere wheel loader payload weighing system can be within 2% accuracy if calibrated properly. Additionally, the John Deere system offers data tracking with totals by operator, customer and material type that can be offloaded to a USB drive or transmitted through the JDLink telematics system to be used in other software.

Invigorate Asphalt Rejuvenator

Colorbiotics Innovations

Invigorate Asphalt Rejuvenator from Colorbiotics is a new soybean oil-derived additive that triggers chemical reactions inside recycled asphalt pavement (RAP).

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Unlocking the Power of Construction Data to Make Smarter Business Decisions

Viewpoint Construction Software

Moving to the cloud enables a connected construction operation with a fluid flow of data and collaborative communication between the field, office and project teams.

Advances in integrated, cloud-based construction software have made powerful analytic and business intelligence easily accessible.

Blue Collar Job Growth Remains Sluggish in September with Only Modest Uptick

Employment in construction, manufacturing, and mining and logging rose by 93,000 jobs in September, or just 0.47%.

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Use of Plastic Additives in Asphalt Mixtures Increasing

The Dow Chemical Company

Dow has installed their recycled plastic-modified asphalt mixtures on several roads and parking lots in the country, proving these mixtures to be a viable option in sustainable pavement design and construction

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Ekso Bionics Announces EGM Builders as First Customer to Adopt EVO Technology

EVO is designed to reduce the risk of repetitive or fatigue-related injuries for construction workers and other industrial employees.

EGM Builders, a general contractor providing construction services in New Jersey and New York, plans to use the EVO vest to help its team members stay safe and comfortable while performing their work.

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Cat Trial 9: PAC-MAN™ Player Alfonso Fajardo Says Remote Control Technology Will Improve Jobsite Operations

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Alfonso Fajardo is superintendent at Horsepower Site Services in Charlotte, NC. Fajardo says remote technology is easy to learn and will help improve how operators work on some jobsites

Alfonso Fajardo, who plays Inky in The Cat Trial 9: PAC-MAN™ video, is superintendent at Horsepower Site Services in Charlotte, NC.

Haydon Materials Takes Aerial Control of Inventory Management with Drones

Kentucky-based hot mix producer and paving contractor finds great uses for drones around their quarry and asphalt plant in addition to slashing stockpile-measuring costs compared to third-party surveyors and getting more accurate data

Haydon Materials has four quarries, so surveying stockpiles is a big job that requires continual knowledge and awareness of foundation patterns and distribution processes. Using drones has helped the company save both time and money.

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