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How to Manage the Risks of Drowsy Driving on the Job

When workers are travelling between multiple locations and jobsites, it can be challenging to manage health and safety effectively.

When workers are travelling between multiple locations and jobsites, it can be challenging to manage health and safety effectively.

Off-Road Autonomy’s Missing Ingredient: Electrification

While the Waymos, Teslas and Zooxes of the world soak up the mainstream attention, another, more pressing, application for these technologies is on the rise: heavy industry.

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How to Best Prepare, Interview and Evaluate New Employees

The competition for labor is at an all-time high, being prepared is the difference between getting the best candidates or not. Apply these straight-forward tips and tools from a Human Resources professional to your interviewing and hiring practices.

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How Innovative Concrete Equipment Can Help Contractors Expand Their Capabilities

Curb Roller Manufacturing

Concrete equipment has evolved to provide portable, operator-friendly solutions to help broaden contractors’ in-house capabilities.

Battery-powered curbing machines are often used for monolithic pours but can also be used for patch and repair work and can complement slipform pavers for corners and tight radii involved with larger jobs.

How to Make and Cure Standard Test Cylinders in the Field

KB Engineering LLC

Follow these seven steps to make and cure a standard concrete test cylinder in the field.

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Mitigate the Hazards of Common Construction Dangers

By creating a culture of safety and implementing it, construction companies can help keep their teams secure every day. Let's examine common construction dangers and mitigation measures to safeguard against hazards and keep workers safe.

Safeguard Construction Workers From Common Jobsite Dangers With a Culture of Safety

Switching From LPG to Lithium Electric Forklift: How to Calculate the Battery Ah Capacity

Over half of all lift trucks sold in the U.S. in 2018 already were electric, and the pace of transitioning to electric motive power has only accelerated in the last years.

Over half of all lift trucks sold in the U.S. in 2018 already were electric, and the pace of transitioning to electric motive power has only accelerated in the last years.

Preventing Trenching and Excavating Fatalities

AmTrust Financial

Workers responsible for digging operations, those repairing utility, water or sewer lines and road builders are at risk of being caught in a cave-in, the most common trenching or excavating hazard.

Workers responsible for digging operations, those repairing utility, water or sewer lines and road builders are at risk of being caught in a cave-in, the most common trenching or excavating hazard.

Construction Companies Face Complexity in Revenue Management During Turbulent Times

With fears of recession looming and an uncertain market, construction companies must be nimble in how they contract with their clients. For many, their back-office is not prepared for the complexity this will create.

With fears of recession looming and an uncertain market, construction companies must be nimble in how they contract with their clients. For many, their back-office is not prepared for the complexity this will create.

How to Win New, Repeat Business as a Contractor

In business, reputation is key, and that’s especially true for professional home improvement contractors.

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Why Subcontractors Need Better Access to Financial Capital

For subcontractors to have a chance to be successful, they will need more tools in their financial arsenal belt to help them negotiate the complex, painfully broken payment cycle.

For subcontractors to have a chance to be successful, they will need more tools in their financial arsenal belt to help them negotiate the complex, painfully broken payment cycle.

The Limitations of F-Number Specifications

American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC)

Contractors need to be cognizant of certain situations that make it difficult to achieve routine FF and FL requirements and know how to get those specifications changed to more reasonable requirements.

The penetrations required in this depressed area in an elevated floor slab make it difficult to use 10-foot straightedges and riding power trowels. Specifiers should consider these multiple obstructions to finishing operations when determining F-number values. In this case, the specifier required F-numbers in the small depressed floated area that was to receive ceramic tile for bathrooms.

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