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Three Ways a Low Finance Rate Carries a High Cost

Choosing the lowest rate on equipment financing can sometimes be a mistake for small businesses. Let’s explore why.

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Post-Pandemic Tips for Recruiting the Construction Workforce

Many workers have been displaced due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Use these tips to find and recruit this pool of potential workers to the construction industry.

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New Course Focuses on Fundamentals of Transportation Construction Safety

American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA)

Comprehensive safety training course is designed to help reduce motorist fatalities and injuries that occur in and around U.S. infrastructure improvement projects

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Rope Access Pro Invents with 3D Printing to Keep Workers Safe in the Air

Rope access technicians do their jobs dangling from rope that cannot survive abrasion over sharp edges. Somebody who knows the ropes innovated a life-saving solution

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Webinar: Increasing Awareness of Factors that Influence Trench Safety

This webinar will feature experts from OSHA, NIOSH, CPWR and United Rentals, who will look at how to increase awareness and knowledge of the factors that may contribute to trenching incidents and fatalities, and ways to mitigate the risks.

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ACI Announces Middle East Fellowship Recipient

American Concrete Institute (ACI)

ACI has named the recipient of the Middle East Fellowship for the 2020-2021 award year.

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Rasmussen Group Improves Trucking Safety with SmartDrive Systems

SmartDrive Systems, Inc.

SmartDrive Systems recently announced that The Rasmussen Group has deployed the SmartDrive video-based safety program with SmartDrive 360 and Extended Recording in two of its subsidiary companies.

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How Prefabrication Delivers Safety and Production Vertical Construction Needs for Coronavirus Survival

Outsourcing close-quarter construction to prefab shops shifts infection risk off your job sites and slashes time from project timelines

Hurdles such as work sequencing, worker availability, weather and time constraints can be overcome by prefabricating off-site. It also moves worker hours, and liability, off-site.

Common Ground Alliance Releases Damage Prevention Technologies Report, Honors Leadership

Common Ground Alliance

Report provides case studies and insights on technology that industry stakeholders can use to prevent damages, protect assets and increase overall safety

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ACI Foundation Announces the Roger S. Johnston Memorial Scholarship

American Concrete Institute (ACI)

The $5,000 scholarship will be administered by the ACI Foundation and awarded annually to undergraduate students enrolled in a bachelor's degree program in civil engineering or construction management.

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ABC's Greg Sizemore Talks About the Need to Address Suicide in Construction

Associated Builders and Contractors Inc. (ABC)

Suicide risks in construction, particularly in light of the current coronavirus pandemic, must be addressed as part of a construction company's safety focus.

California Construction Company Offers Free App to Control Coronavirus Risk

BuildCenter, a software spinoff from COBE Construction Inc., is offering a free health screening tool and attendance log.

BuildCenter lets construction companies do on-site health-screening and contact-tracing for COVID-19.

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