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Roadbuilding

Smart pavement pilot projects stuffing roads with sensors and internet connectivity

Integrated Roadways wants to put sensors, phone, and internet connectivity, as well as other hardware, inside road surfaces. The company has been pitching the idea to governments since 2012, and it finally has two pilot projects in the works where it will lay down pavement and prove its concept, Government Technology reports. The company’s owner, […]

August 23, 2017

Telematics

Contractors seeing big benefits from telematics, expect it to improve safety and worker shortages

Telematics already play a major role in the heavy truck and equipment industries and will likely become a dominant technology in the years to come. That’s the conclusion of a global survey published today (Tuesday, August 22) of more than 260 companies primarily in construction but also the oil and gas, and mining and aggregates […]

August 22, 2017

Construction Equipment

Cat’s Yard Club acquisition wasn’t really about equipment sharing

When news broke in May that Caterpillar had acquired peer-to-peer (P2P) equipment service Yard Club, it raised a lot of eyebrows in the heavy equipment and construction industries. The deal, terms of which were never disclosed, gave considerable weight to the notion that P2P equipment rental services, which allow contractors to rent machines in their […]

August 18, 2017

Technology

Data, IoT, AR/VR key drivers in improving construction productivity, says McKinsey report

One of the leading management consultant companies in the country, McKinsey&Company, released a study on technology in the construction industry this week. It contains a good many gems, some of which will not be unfamiliar to Equipment World readers. The big takeaway from the report “The new age of engineering and construction technology,” is that […]

August 1, 2017

Technology

Milwaukee Tick sticks to tools, equipment for quick locating via phone app

Milwaukee Tool’s TICK uses Bluetooth technology and a phone app to help you locate tools and equipment should they ever become lost or stolen. The plastic TICK can be placed on the tool or equipment out of sight by glue, screw, rivet or strap. The tools and equipment can then be tracked through the ONE-KEY […]

July 28, 2017

Technology

Deere demos Kespry’s automated drone surveying at Coal Valley site

On most trips to John Deere’s Coal Valley, Illinois, demonstration site, Equipment World editors are focused on the ground, specifically the yellow machines moving the ground around. But on my most recent trip to Coal Valley, I spent some of my time looking up instead, as Deere representatives demonstrated the company’s latest product category: drones. […]

July 27, 2017

Technology

Trimble deal with Propeller Aero brings drone-based site survey system to U.S. contractors, engineers

Trimble has announced it is collaborating with Australia’s Propeller Aero to distribute that company’s drone-based site survey and analytics technology. We got our first glimpse of Propeller Aero’s system in March at the Trimble booth during ConExpo. The system uses drones, also known as UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), to survey a jobsite from the air. The […]

July 20, 2017

Technology

Komatsu, Trimble software platforms will soon share 3D construction data

Komatsu and Trimble have announced that the two companies are developing a bridge between their respective software platforms that will allow for easy exchanges of 3D construction site data between the two. The companies say the primary focus of the effort are customers operating mixed earthmoving fleets and aims to provide “a more holistic view […]

July 19, 2017

Construction Equipment

Perkins intros the SmartCap, an engine oil filler cap that sends service alerts to your phone

Imagine a diesel engine oil filler cap that reminds you when it’s time to change the oil. That’s what Perkins showed us in June at its new factory in Seguin, Texas. Just north of San Antonio, Seguin is where the British-based Perkins put its headquarters for the Americas and has co-located an engine manufacturing operation […]

July 14, 2017

Technology

Wearable construction tech: The dawn of the bionic worker is coming

The dawn of the bionic construction worker is not quite here yet, but it’s coming. At ConExpo this year, “Wearable Technology” was the subject of one of the show’s Tech Talks, and while most of this technology has yet to make it into the field, in the next two to three years wearable technology products […]

June 30, 2017

Roadbuilding

Plug-in device can report location, severity of potholes using vehicle’s vibrations

A Texas group called Thing for Things is trying to fix the pothole problem in North Texas using technology, wfaa.com reports. The group came up with the idea of using a small plug-in device that can attach to almost any vehicle to collect road condition data as the vehicle travels the roads. The plug-in uses GPS […]

June 1, 2017

Roadbuilding

New concrete mixture would allow roads to resist corrosion from road salt

Deicing salt is used on roads every winter to improve driving conditions, but the calcium chloride salt commonly used in this application reacts with the calcium hydroxide in concrete, forming a chemical byproduct called calcium oxychloride that causes roadways to degrade, crack, and crumble. According to a Drexel University press release provided to Phys.org, Yaghoob Farnam, a civil engineer, […]

May 29, 2017