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Technology elevates excavator efficiency

The latest generation of Hyundai -9 excavators combine several new systems that work together to give proper power to different systems based on the job at hand.

Democratic Platform Offers Mixed Messages on AGC Priorities

Associated General Contractors of America (AGC)

Few specifics, but platform does touch on taxation, infrastructure, immigration, labor and employment, regulations, and energy

Komatsu D61-23 Crawler Dozer

Komatsu America Corp.

Standard undercarriage puts more track on the ground, while new controls improve 20-ton dozer's fuel economy 10% in power mode and 20% in efficiency mode

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NRMCA to Verify Environmental Product Declarations

National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (NRMCA)

Concrete association moves to help members meet new LEED requirements.

Cleaire Heavy-Duty Chassis Dynamometer Emissions Laboratory Open for Contract Testing Services

Cleaire Advanced Emission Controls, LLC

The Heavy-Duty Chassis Dynamometer Emissions Laboratory is capable of handling vehicles ranging from pickup trucks to Class 8 trucks, buses and other heavy-duty vehicles, single or tandem axle drive with inertia simulation from 6,000 to 85,000 pounds

Cleaire's Chassis Dynamometer Emissions Laboratory is capable of testing a variety of medium- and heavy-duty power train technologies including diesel emission control systems, hybrid power trains and alternative fuels.

ARTBA Argues Against Higher Emissions Rules by 2025

Higher emissions rules could cost the highway trust fund and make less money available for construction projects

Federal Signal's Environmental Solutions Group Announces EcoInfused Technology Initiative

Technology delivers increased fuel efficiency, reduced CO2 emissions and reduced noise

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Cummins Power Generation Ready for Tier 4 Final 3 Years Before EPA Deadline

Cummins Power Generation

Along with EPA certification of the entire generator line at the Tier 4 Interim level, Cummins claims the line is "Tier 4 Final ready"

Slab Edge Forming and Insulation System Offers Energy Efficiency in Sustainable Custom Home

EnergyEdge is designed to prevent energy loss along the concrete slab edge.

The designers of this sustainable custom home in Kansas City, Kan., utilized EnergyEdge in its concrete slab foundation to increase the home's energy efficiency.

Navistar Plots Course to Selective Catalytic Reduction

Steps to replacing advanced exhaust gas recirculation with Cummins SCR complicated by reliance on an interim EPA rule that may not survive court appeal

Navistar expects to introduce in-cylinder-technology plus selective catalytic reduction (SCR) to in first quarter 2013 on MaxxForce 13 engines. A Caterpillar-branded version of the engine is used in the Cat CT660 vocational truck, and is expected to appear with SCR in a similar time frame.

J.D. Power Measures Drop in Truck Satisfaction Due to EPA Diesel Exhaust Requirements

J.D. Power and Associates

Freightliner ranks highest in satisfaction with heavy-duty trucks in vocational and on-highway segments; Kenworth ranks highest in dealer service

Overall satisfaction with one-model-year-old heavy-duty trucks declined to 737 index points (on a 1,000-point scale) in 2012, primarily due to an increase in the number of engine and fuel-system problems experienced. The number of problems per 100 trucks in 2012 rose 223.

10 Reasons Energy Retrofits Will Be the Next Big Thing in Commercial Buildings

Performance contracting, new financial tools and government mandates to reduce carbon emissions suggest that energy retrofits will overcome barriers currently limiting this work

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