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Circular Concrete Pours: Tips on Pouring a Circular Foundation for a Grain Bin

Curb Roller Manufacturing

When the job is a foundation for a grain bin, you can find limitations and unique challenges to such a remote setting. Investing in specialized equipment may save time and provide a long-lasting foundation.

Battery-powered roller screeds are suited for remote applications. They have no cords or hoses and can be easily operated in remote environments with a limited power supply.

7 Methods for Testing Concrete Strength

Giatec Scientific Inc.

There are many different practices aside from cylinder break tests that can be used.

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Top Three Reports Every Rental Business Should Have Tacked on Their Wall

InTempo Software

By focusing on three broad areas — the “three Ps” of people, process and product — you can ensure that you keep a 360-degree view of the most critical aspects of your rental business.

Inventory analysis reports can dramatically reduce two of the biggest drains on ROI: understocking and overstocking rental inventory.

Forklift Battery Safety

How to ensure efficient and secure operations with lithium battery technology.

Forklift Lithium Battery Safety

Taking Off On A Runway Revamp at Albert J. Ellis Airport

Strategic planning and teamwork create smooth landing pad for $10.4 million pavement maintenance job.

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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.

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