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Why Your Contractor Safety Evaluation Process is All Wrong

A comprehensive contractor evaluation process requires gathering the right data that provides an understanding of past performance but also creates a predictive view of safety risk.

Evaluating the standard incident and risk statistics involves retrieving data from many sources and cross-referencing figures.

Why Gen Z Should Work Construction – From a Gen Zer

It’s no secret that Gen Z is into technology. The oldest of us were in elementary school when the iPhone emerged; the youngest of us were that age when TikTok exploded onto the scene.

By supercharging BIM, AI can assess design data and optimize layouts while taking into account cost, schedule deadlines, space utilization, energy efficiency, and sustainability considerations ranging from sun angles to building materials.

Adding a Drum Mulcher to Your Rental Fleet?

For customers with land clearing, vegetation management, or utility/roadside maintenance in their job scope, a drum mulcher can be essential to their success. Here’s what to know about drum mulchers to help your customer select the right option.

Adding Drum Mulchers to Rental Fleet

How Transportation Fleets Have Evolved To Embrace Digital Contracts

Fleet Advantage

The next phase of contracting digital transformation will involve leveraging advanced workflow processes such as e-contracting, multi-channel origination, digital certainty, auditing, document governance, security and more.

Centralized data management will allow transportation fleets and their finance professionals to access and analyze metadata across various origination channels and asset classes.

6 Ways Supply Chain Trends Impact Businesses

The supply chain landscape of 2024 demands agility, resilience, and foresight from businesses. By embracing these strategies, businesses can not only weather disruptions but also thrive in an increasingly volatile global economy.

The supply chain landscape of 2024 demands agility, resilience, and foresight from businesses.

Removing Suspended Solids in Asphalt Transloading

Acme Engineering Prod. Inc

Automated scraper strainers paired with macerators eliminate high volumes of large, suspended solids from slurries for “set it and forget it” approach.

Adapting strainers for the specialized filtration of uncommon liquids and slurries requires not only expertise but also collaboration with the processor as well as some design iterations.

Protection: The Second Layer of Your Cybersecurity Plan

Bulk Construction Materials Initiative (BCMI)

What cybersecurity protection truly means and what it entails for your construction business.

In this digitized era, the biggest disruption to your business is having your information destroyed or being unable to access your information when you need it.

‘Elevating’ for Hyper-Local Insights to Ensure Comprehensive Property Assessments

Compared to “boots on the ground” surveying, aerial imagery actively and autonomously upgrades the workflow for construction teams.

When developers understand the risks associated with the areas they're building in, they can take proactive steps to protect structures, infrastructure assets, and adjacent land, making the area both more sustainable and increasing its value.

5 Concrete Technologies to Reduce Carbon Footprint

The Euclid Chemical Company

Advanced cementitious materials, carbon capture, self-healing concrete, nanotechnology and 3D printing can expand concrete’s longevity and improve its environmental impact.

Inadequate curing, improper mix design and insufficient compaction can introduce structural defects.

5 More Ways to Strengthen Your Rental Company

Detmer Consulting Inc.

What else can rental companies do to strengthen business and differentiate their company?

5 More Ways to Make Your Rental Company Unique

Beyond the Gate: Using Lightweight Aggregates in Sustainable Construction

Expanded Shale, Clay & Slate Institute

When used within structural lightweight concrete mixes or to facilitate internal curing, lightweight aggregates like expanded shale, clay, and slate can offset production footprint and contribute to more ecologically conscious construction.

Using Lightweight Aggregates in Sustainable Construction

Slag Concrete Mix & Post-Tensioned System Key to Times Square New Construction

Heidelberg Materials North America

The TSX Broadway building in Times Square needed cutting-edge design and engineering to maintain the site’s cultural history. Here's how contractors used a 40% slag concrete mix (minimum) for high-performance and low-carbon concrete.

The Heidelberg Materials Camden, New Jersey, slag grinding plant. In June 2024, the company converted its Speed, Indiana, cement plant to a slag grinding facility.

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