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Safety & Compliance

ELD Mandate: As contractors scramble to comply with electronic logging, others may be in for “rude awakening”

If you operate construction trucks you may fall under a new mandate requiring electronic logging of your drivers’ hours – and time is running out to comply. Failure to do so could lead to fines and lower safety scores. Here’s how to know if your business is at risk and what you can do about […]

June 9, 2017

Business

Construction Industry Round Table announces new officers

During its annual spring meeting in Washington D.C., the Construction Industry Round Table (CIRT) elected Wayne A. Drinkward as Chairman of the organization for a term of one year. Drinkward is Chairman & CEO of Hoffman Corp., where he works in a wide range of markets, and will replace H. Ralph Hawkins, FAIA, Chairman Emeritus of HKS, […]

June 6, 2017

Business

Construction spending falls 1.4% in April

An increase in single-family home construction spending was not enough to offset a decline in nonresidential spending as total U.S. construction spending fell 1.4 percent in April to $1.2 trillion. Despite the monthly decline, total spending remains 6.7 percent above the April 2016 figure, according to preliminary data from the Commerce Department. Private residential spending, […]

June 1, 2017

Safety

DOL suspends OSHA’s rule requiring companies electronically report injuries and illnesses

The Department of Labor has suspended an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) rule requiring companies to electronically report injury and illness records, which keeps the records from being publicly disclosed, The Washington Post reports. The rule, which took effect Jan. 1, requires employers to send in their summary data electronically by July 1, but OSHA never launched the […]

May 23, 2017

Business

U.S. home starts fall 2.6% in April

A dip in the start of construction on multifamily homes wiped out a small gain in single-family homes in April, bringing total U.S. home starts down 2.6 percent. Total starts fell to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.172 million but remain up 0.7 percent from the April 2016 figure, according to preliminary data from the […]

May 16, 2017

Business

Large fleet, ear for employees keep NY’s Boyce Excavating going strong for 80 years

Garry Boyce is a construction lifer. He got his start as a laborer at his father’s company, while also greasing equipment. Eventually he got to run some of that equipment, creating a passion he remembers loving to come home to every day as a child. “I couldn’t wait to get off the bus at 13 […]

May 8, 2017

Construction Equipment

Watch 2-year construction of new Atlanta Braves baseball stadium in 90 seconds

After 20 years and and many postseason runs at Turner Field, the Atlanta Braves have moved into a new home at Sun Trust Park. Construction of the new stadium took American Builders (a partnership between Brasfield & Gorrie, Mortenson, Barton Malow and New South) 26 months to complete before Atlanta hosted the park’s inaugural game with […]

May 5, 2017

Workforce

Construction adds 5,000 jobs in April

The U.S. construction industry extended its streak of job gains to eight months with a small increase of 5,000 jobs in April. The industry now employs 6.877 million Americans, a 2.6-percent increase over April 2016, according to preliminary data from the Labor Department. The department’s latest jobs report revised the March construction jobs figure to 6.872 […]

May 5, 2017

Technology

Fixed-wing eBee Plus surveying drone coming to Cat dealers through Airware/senseFly partnership

Commercial drone technology company Airware has announced a partnership with another drone manufacturer that will add a different type of aircraft to the company’s current offerings. Airware, which sells drones and end-to-end mapping solutions to construction, mining, surveying and other business customers, currently offers only rotary drones (those driven by a number of rotors). But through a […]

April 26, 2017

Business

Brock’s Grading and Land Clearing built success based on sound financials, safety

In 1998, Mike Brock was just three years out of high school when he began his construction career. He bought a small piece of land from a family friend for what he calls “a real bargain.” Then, following his grandfather’s advice, Mike began to sell sand off of the property. He soon sold his car, […]

April 26, 2017

Vocational

Thunder Creek intros the Combo Tank, first transfer system for pickups that can dispense diesel and DEF

Thunder Creek Equipment introduces two portable tanks to help handle diesel exhaust fluid in the field, including the first combination diesel and DEF transfer tank for pickup trucks, the company says. The combo tank debuted at ConExpo, along with Thunder Creek’s DEF Saddle Tank, designed to be mounted to a truck’s frame rails. Combo Tank […]

April 20, 2017

Construction Equipment

GeoSLAM allows you to scan buildings, rooms and interior spaces as fast as you can walk them

Tech savvy contractors have been using GPS systems to survey and map outdoor jobsites for more than a decade. But, once you move indoors, its back to the old tape measure and clipboard. The GeoSLAM Zeb Revo is a new product that can do for indoor building measurements what GPS did for outside survey work. […]

April 20, 2017