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Roadbuilding
The Zipper truck builds tunnels in no time without any adhesive
With this unique truck and some larger-than-life concrete lego bricks, tunnel building takes no time it all. According to a report from Inhabitat, thereāsĀ no need for any adhesive or binding agent at all with the tunnelsĀ built by Lock-Blockās new custom Zipper truck. The video below shows the truck in place where the new tunnel willĀ standĀ as [ā¦]
March 4, 2016
Technology
2016 Innovations Awards: Year of the Drone headlines 3 game-changing construction technologies
In the past year, no other technology has shown more potential to impact ā and improve ā more parts of the construction business than unmanned aircraft, more commonly referred to as drones. There are the obvious applications such as using the aircraft to grab aerial progress shots, but contractors like Rogers-OāBrien have figured out how [ā¦]
January 8, 2016
Technology
2016 Innovations Award Winner: Volvo CE Density Direct compaction system
Algorithms seem to rule the world now, with these programming juggernauts turning massive amounts of data into usable concepts. Itās an algorithm that makes Volvo CEās Density Direct intelligent compaction system stand out among the crowded field of compaction equipment. Introduced at the World of Asphalt show this past March, Density Directās key differentiation is [ā¦]
January 8, 2016
Technology
2016 Innovations Award Winner: Vermeer Insite productivity tools
As Jon Kuyers tells it, Vermeer team members started to notice something when they visited contractors. āWeād go to a jobsite,ā says Vermeerās senior global product manager, āand our focus was naturally on the equipment and how to make it more productive. But then weād wait for the job to get organized. It wasnāt the [ā¦]
January 8, 2016
Roadbuilding
The RoadPrinter builds brick roads as if it were unrolling carpet
Laying each individual block in a brick road can be a time-consuming process, but this machine from RP Systems has made the process a little less time consuming and much more fun to watch. Tech Insider recently featured the video below of the PRS6 RoadPrinter easily rolling out a road.Ā Plus, the machine is building a [ā¦]
November 18, 2015
Roadbuilding
Stronger, longer bridge girders the aim of research collaboration between University of Alabama, ALDOT
More durable and longer bridge girders could spell cheaper construction costs among other benefits, and a few engineering researchers at the University of Alabama are trying to make that a reality. According to a UA news release, researchers are testing longer, stronger giant concrete bridge girders in a lab at the University of Alabama. The [ā¦]
September 18, 2015
Construction Equipment
SkidCrane Lives: How the family of a former contractor is bringing his skid steer crane attachment to market (PHOTOS)
Parnell Jorgenson believed in the Bobcat. His son Kim remembers the now-iconic skid steer beginning to pop up on his fatherās jobsites at some point in the late 1960s, just a few years after Bobcat first introduced it. And it didnāt take long for Jorgenson and his nimble loaders to gain a reputation. āHe always [ā¦]
September 17, 2015
Roadbuilding
Is plastic the new pavement? Roads made of recycled ocean trash could be built in just weeks
Plastic roads may seem more well suited for Hot Wheels, but a Dutch company is aiming toĀ bringĀ the toy track to the test track. VolkerWessels announced last week that it was working on plans to bring the worldās first plastic road to the Netherlands. The PlasticRoad project is still entirely conceptual, and the company is looking [ā¦]
July 22, 2015
Roadbuilding
This Dutch bike path could be the precursor to solar energy-capturing roads everywhere
A bike path in the Netherlands thatās shorter than a football field could be the future of energy and travel. Engineers built the 229-foot test track with a solar road surface. Al Jazeera reportsĀ the pathās surface can be driven over while also generating electricity.Ā The small test track has generated enough electricity in just six months [ā¦]
May 22, 2015
Equipment Experts
2015 Innovations Awards: The 3 biggest game-changing construction machines of the year
Our 2015 Innovation award winners include an excavator that goes into semi-automatic mode every time you get close to the target surface, a pickup truck body that was the talk of 2014 and a generator with massive capabilities to give power to remote ā even Third World ā job sites and communities. Go with us [ā¦]
January 8, 2015
Construction Equipment
2015 Innovations Awards: The 3 biggest game-changing construction machines of the year
Our 2015 Innovation award winners include an excavator that goes into semi-automatic mode every time you get close to the target surface, a pickup truck body that was the talk of 2014 and a generator with massive capabilities to give power to remote ā even Third World ā job sites and communities. Go with us [ā¦]
January 8, 2015
Construction Equipment
2014 Innovations Winner: Michelin Tweel airless tire
The tire market is a precise, refined, mature market that has, for the most part, relied on pneumatic tires for more than a century. Despite the vulnerability associated with air loss, pneumatic tires became the dominant technology thanks to several performance advantages ā low contact pressure, low vertical stiffness, low rolling resistance over rough surfaces [ā¦]
January 6, 2014
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