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Equipment Experts

Cat intros Grade Control 3D for its small dozer lineup

Cat’s Grade Control 3D has now migrated to the smaller dozers in its lineup, the D3K2, D4K2 and D5K2. “This system is now the same from the D3 to the D8 size,” says Joel Fritts, market professional, small track type tractors, Caterpillar. The system automates machine functions during both production dozing and fine grading applications, […]

November 21, 2016

Construction Equipment

Cat intros Grade Control 3D for its small dozer lineup

Cat’s Grade Control 3D has now migrated to the smaller dozers in its lineup, the D3K2, D4K2 and D5K2. “This system is now the same from the D3 to the D8 size,” says Joel Fritts, market professional, small track type tractors, Caterpillar. The system automates machine functions during both production dozing and fine grading applications, […]

November 21, 2016

Technology

With Trimble’s HoloLens SketchUp Viewer, you can walk through a building as you design it

Alongside the numerous improvements announced at the annual Dimensions conference for the company’s field survey solutions and SketchUp design software aimed at compact equipment, Trimble also announced that it’s working to bring SketchUp to Microsoft’s HoloLens virtual reality goggles. Trimble is working in tandem with Microsoft to enable teams to collaborate on drawings with the ability to view the […]

November 21, 2016

Machine control

Trimble intros several updates to field survey tools, SketchUp for use with compact equipment

If you do a lot of work with skid steers, compact track loaders and mini-excavators, Trimble has developed a suite of products that will enable you to do many of the same things as contractors who run big equipment equipped with GPS machine control, but with less hardware and at a lower cost. “Customers have seen the […]

November 17, 2016

Roadbuilding

GNSS machine control allows Halley Engineering Contractors to widen Florida’s deadly SR 997 2 months ahead of schedule

In the period from 2005 to 2011, the 36-mile stretch of Florida’s State Road 997 between the city of Homestead and Okeechobee Road to the north, claimed the lives of 28 people—a dozen in 2014 alone. And, in that same time frame, more than 900 others were injured in crashes on the two-lane highway. Though […]

October 13, 2016

Machine control

Three views on the past, present and rapidly evolving future of GPS in heavy construction

Editor’s Note:This is the fourth in a four-part GPS/GNSS 101 series. To read more, click here. It’s hard to believe, but the use of GPS in heavy construction is now more than 15 years old. Mike Momrow, survey manager for the Rifenburg Companies in Troy, New York, was present at its genesis, purchasing and fielding […]

October 10, 2016

Technology

SmartCap integrates camera-free worker fatigue monitoring into hard hats, ball caps and more

The signs are unmistakable: the head bob, the eyes that have trouble remaining open, a blank stare. These are all symptoms of “microsleeps,” or brief episodes of fatigue-based loss of attention. While these may be common when you’re parked on your couch in front of the TV at night, they can be deadly if they […]

October 10, 2016

Technology

DJI one-ups GoPro with the Mavic Pro, an even more compact foldable drone with stout specs

GoPro made a splash recently with the unveiling of its Karma drone. Not only does the Karma fold up for easy transport, it has a beginner-friendly flight system designed not only to assist in operation, but to teach proper flight control techniques as well. And despite the Karma’s relatively low base price of $799, it […]

September 28, 2016

Roadbuilding

Route 66 will soon become a testing ground for solar sidewalks and roads

Route 66 will soon become the testing ground for an experiment that developers hope may change our roadways in the future. Curbed reports that hexagonal glass panels manufactured by Solar Roadways will be laid over a sidewalk near a rest stop in Conway, Missouri, in early December. According to Missouri Department of Transportation staff, this will […]

September 26, 2016

Technology

Airware acquires Caterpillar partner Redbird to offer full drone planning solution for construction, mining

In order to better integrate planning for and analysis of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flights on construction jobsites, Airware, a San Francisco-based company that develops what it calls a “comprehensive operating system for commercial drones,” has acquired French drone data startup Redbird. If that second name sounds a bit familiar, that’s because Redbird has been […]

September 23, 2016

Technology

Panasonic upgrades semi-rugged Toughbook 54 laptop with faster processor

For those contractors that require a Windows laptop they can throw in the pickup and bring onto the jobsite, Panasonic has improved its Toughbook 54 with power upgrades. Panasonic calls this 14-inch laptop the thinnest and lightest semi-rugged laptop in its class, weighing between 4.2 and 4.6 pounds, depending on the model. The Toughbook 54 […]

September 22, 2016

Vocational

Mack working to integrate WheresMyConcrete’s real-time mixer data into telematics service

Mack Trucks has announced that it is working to connect real-time concrete mixer data into its telematics service through a partnership with WheresMyConcrete. WheresMyConcrete is a service that allows mixer fleet dispatchers to track delivery and order progress as it happens. The cloud-based software gives dispatchers a 30,000-foot view of the entire operation through order updates, mix […]

September 21, 2016