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Tag: Magazine April 2013
Construction Equipment
What it takes to pave a parking lot, Part 2: Rollers
Editor’s Note: If you haven’t already, be sure to check out Part 1 of this series on pavers by clicking here. If we do some math, we can calculate that the hypothetical Walmart parking lot we began paving in Part 1 of this pieces, should take two days if everything works right, says Chris Connolly, […]
April 2, 2013
Equipment
Doosan delivers DPF-free engines for Tier 4 Final
Diesel particulate filters were developed as one of several emissions reduction strategies for Tier 4 Interim and Tier 4 Final engines a few years ago. But where and when they can, manufacturers such as Doosan are designing their smaller engines so that a DPF is not needed. Why? “It requires high-cost maintenance, such as ash […]
April 1, 2013
Business
Does it pay for contractors to run a truck or fleet on natural gas?
Remember when diesel was $2 a gallon and you could drive your big trucks without gasping at the cost of a fill-up? Those days may be coming back, although it won’t be diesel that’s costing $2 a gallon, but natural gas. Thanks to fracking and horizontal drilling techniques developed in just the last decade, domestic petroleum […]
April 1, 2013
Success Stories
Diversity, flexibility lead North Carolina’s Mitch Cox Construction through recession
Editor’s Note: Mitch Cox was a finalist for 2012 Contractor of the Year. He started Mitch Cox Construction Inc. in 1980 in Johnson City, Tennessee. The company has 35 employees with annual volume of $8 million to $10 million. The company serves the MOB, renovation, office and retail construction markets. Mitch Cox, CEO and founder of the […]
April 1, 2013
Construction Equipment
What it takes to pave a parking lot, Part 1: The Pavers
Just imagine that it’s a sunny spring morning in suburban America, and that our job is to pave and compact the asphalt for a large Walmart parking lot. We posed just that task to seven equipment manufacturers and asked them what pavers and rollers they would choose, and the reasons for their selections. Today, we’ll […]
April 1, 2013
Technology
Behind the B15: The design process of Caterpillar’s rugged smartphone
Just a couple of weeks ago, Caterpillar launched a pretty surprising new product. Not a dozer or an excavator, but a phone. A very rugged smartphone. And to much excitement, I might add. The phone received copious amounts of coverage from mainsteam outlets and the consumer technology outlets alike at its debut during the Mobile […]
March 13, 2013
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