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Plant Maintenance
Volvo Trucks Breaks Ground on New Customer Experience Center
Volvo Trucks North America
Volvo Trucks North America will make several plant upgrades and open a new Customer Experience Center at its plant in Dublin, Va.
The Customer Experience Center will feature a product showroom, four training rooms, a 200-seat theater-in-the-round and an observation area that will allow customers to watch trucks in action on the 1.1-mile Customer Experience Track.
Quality Control
How Kokosing Uses Telematics to Improve Operator Skill and Safety
Tying ignition switches to a card reader that identifies everyone who tries to operate one of the contractor’s machines helps improve operators
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Plants
Global Barrier Coatings ARA
Global Barrier Coatings Inc.
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EPDs
Report: European Portable Generator Market Predicted to Grow Nearly 6% Per Year Through 2019
The portable generator market in Europe is predicted to grow at a CAGR of 5.7% over the period 2014-2019.
Infrastructure
How Wearable Technology is Saving Lives
We’ve all heard about the coming boom of wearable technology, though how useful much of it will be to the construction industry is unknown. Integrating wearable tech into site safety procedures however, is already a win.
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EPDs
Is It Possible to Go Paperless?
We asked some of today's leading software companies for their thoughts on how today's software technology can increase efficiency and benefit a rental business' bottom line.
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Infrastructure
Volvo’s Hagerstown Manufacturing Installs Parking Lot Solar Canopy
Volvo Group
The canopy contains approximately 5,000 solar panels, producing 1.3 MW of electricity and is part of the plant target to reduce energy intensity by 25% over a 10-year period.
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Workforce
ACI Announces New Guide to the Code for Evaluation, Repair, and Rehabilitation of Concrete Buildings
American Concrete Institute (ACI)
Published jointly by American Concrete Institute and International Concrete Repair Institute as a printed and digital book, the guide provides assistance and examples to professionals engaged in the repair of concrete buildings.
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Infrastructure
D. L. Gasser's Cold In-Place Recycling Cuts Road Material Cost 25%
D. L. Gasser, a division of Mathy Construction, also finds cold in-place recycling process halves reflective cracking over 10 years, compared to conventional mill-and-fill on rural roads
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Infrastructure
Amazon to Build 900 Acre Solar Farm in Virginia
The project to be built for Amazon Web Services in Accomack County will span 900 acres and use 250,000 solar panels, enough to quadruple the state’s solar footprint when it is completed next year.
Quality Control
ForConstructionPros App of the Week: Fleetio Fuel
Fleetio
Use Fleetio Fuel to track and analyze vehicle and heavy equipment fuel data to monitor fuel efficiency and save money
Fleetio Fuel automatically records location information for each fuel entry.
Plant Maintenance
Bay Bridge Construction Contractor Penalized for Steel Rod Failure
Panel votes to withhold $8 million from American Bridge/Fluor to help pay for $24 million retrofit after 32 rods snapped on bridge's seismic stabilizers in 2013
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