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Recovery Week: Breaking Down Stigma & Creating Hope

Hope, help, and healing come through recovery. The story behind Building Trades Recovery Week, how it started in Boston, and is now spreading throughout the New England construction industry.

Building Trades Recovery Week - Breaking Down Stigma and Creating Hope

AI in Construction: What to Expect

Instead of wading through construction documents to determine appliance packages or contract obligations, workers can type the question into their cell phone and Chat GPT will provide the answer.

The construction industry already is adopting AI to fundamentally change and speed up the building process.

4 Steps to Building a Construction Safety Program

Sentry Insurance

Your safety plan—and the culture of safety you cultivate with your team—is your first line of defense to help prevent incidents and protect your bottom line.

The first question OSHA will ask when they visit a jobsite is, “where’s your safety plan?” Is it easily accessible to your workers and do they have the resources they need to conduct their jobs safely?

Roadbuilders' Guide to Crushers: Increasing Access to Recycled Materials

RDO Equipment Co.

Crushers will only become more popular in the next five years as sustainable building becomes more emphasized across the U.S.

The quality of the aggregates depends on the processing, so original equipment manufacturers have developed crushers in various sizes and capacities.

Buried Risks: Protecting Underground Utilities During Construction

Common Ground Alliance

All stakeholders—private and public sector—need to do more to protect the American people from the potentially disastrous impact of striking buried utilities while digging.

The consequences for breaking 'dig laws” can widely vary from state to state.

How to Manage Moisture Loss and Temperature of Freshly Placed Concrete

KB Engineering LLC

Curing, the action taken by contractors to maintain adequate moisture and temperature of freshly placed concrete, promotes the chemical hydration of the cementitious materials within the concrete.

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Wide Bay Superflat VNA Concrete Floors

Structural Services Inc.

Ultimately, it's up to the facility owner to determine how their Defined Traffic or F-min concrete slabs will be constructed. If the owners don’t want corrective grinding in their defined traffic aisles, then the narrow strip construction method is best.

When it came time to measure the placements against the F-min specification and render a certification for compliance, a Floor Levelness and Flatness firm used the F-min Profiler to measure the exact wheel path of the intended material handling equipment. This allowed for instant results ensuring accurate measurements and layout of spot grinding in out-of-tolerance areas.

Using Daily Huddles to Keep Your Crews Focused and Productive

The Contractor's Business Coach

So much time and money is wasted when crews are not well organized - here's what you can do to keep everyone on the same page.

First-Ever PAVE/X Featured Sweeping Education + LIVE Equipment Demos

North American Power Sweeping Association (NAPSA)

NAPSA partnered with the inaugural event in San Antonio to bring industry-specific content to attendees.

Live demos at PAVE/X were a hit.

Your Balance Sheet: A Critical Financial Tool

The balance sheet is one of the most underutilized financial tools in business, and it shouldn’t be. It can provide valuable information about the health of your business, and also help you ensure the accuracy of your financial statements.

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Navigating the Sweeping Industry's Educational Landscape for Lasting Success

World Sweeping Association

In the fast-paced world of pavement maintenance, staying ahead means more than just attending a trade show or a handful of seminars.

Educational session at PAVE/X 2024.

Managing Jobsite Waste for Safety and Sustainability

With construction waste being a serious problem for 95.71% of projects, finding cost-effective and safe solutions becomes vital for the protection of contractors, workers, the environment and the public.

When reusing materials on-site or recycling materials is not an option, you can recover materials and then donate them to community organizations.

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