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Trucks

Restored ’74 Toyota FJ45 pickup a drool-worthy vintage beast (PHOTOS)

One word pops into mind upon seeing the truck above: “Gimme.” And though it’s $87,000 price tag is a bit hard to swallow, if one had the cash, one could imagine quickly rationalizing parting with said figure for a truck this well restored. Just look at that interior. A beautiful lack of plastic. Listed on eBay […]

June 1, 2016

Construction Equipment

Bobcat intros T595 compact track loader

Following the introduction of its wheeled brother earlier this year at World of Concrete, Bobcat has taken the wraps off of the T595 compact track loader. Sharing all of the most important specs of the S595 skid steer, the T595 is powered by a 74-horsepower engine, has a vertical lift path, a rated operating capacity […]

June 1, 2016

Business

Construction spending falls 1.8% in April

Monthly declines in both residential and nonresidential construction led to a 1.8-percent decrease in U.S. construction spending during April. Spending is at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1.134 trillion and remains up 4.5 percent from the April 2015 rate, according to preliminary data from the Commerce Department. Total residential spending fell 1.5 percent to $445 […]

June 1, 2016

Construction Equipment

Can’t Cut Too Deep: Komatsu unveils PC360, 490LCi semi-auto excavators. We put one to work

In addition to updating its fleet of new dozers sporting the company’s intelligent machine control with a radio-controlled model,Komatsu has added two new excavators to its lineup of GPS/GNSS-guided machines. At its Cartersville, Georgia, demo facility last week the company took the wraps off the new PC490LCi-11 and PC360LCi-11 and gave us a chance to put […]

May 31, 2016

Construction Equipment

American Airlines HQ goes up in smoke with implosion

Employees of American Airlines recently gathered atop the roof of a parking garage to say goodbye to six buildings that formed the company’s headquarters since the 1980s. According to a report from the Dallas Morning News, crews demolished the buildings with the help of 380 pounds of explosives. You can see the implosion from multiple […]

May 27, 2016

Business

Go Build Tennessee seeks to replenish state’s aging construction workforce

Nearly one year after signing the Go Build Tennessee Act into law, Gov. Bill Haslam last week launched the statewide construction workforce recruiting program the bill will fund. With a stated goal of “inspiring young people to consider a career in the skilled trades,” Go Build Tennessee will receive more than $2 million in funding from excess […]

May 25, 2016

Construction Equipment

How dozers are leading the way toward smarter, more productive heavy equipment of the future

Electronics continue to lead the dozer technology parade, but there have been two big shifts in the way electronics are used. First, nearly all machines offer electronics packages as standard or optional equipment, where these features were once restricted to high-end models. Second, electronics packages come in lots of sizes to fit a variety of […]

May 24, 2016

Safety

StrongArm exoskeletons aim to eliminate back injuries in construction

Football players wear braces. Why not construction workers? StrongArm Technologies says their ErgoSkeleton braces are designed for the “industrial athlete,” which they define as anybody who does a lot of bending, twisting and carrying heavy loads in the course of a day. There are two products. The V22 ErgoSkeleton works as a lifting assist/load distribution […]

May 24, 2016

Construction Equipment

REVIEW: Rugged and super-comfortable, Keen Utility’s Mt. Vernon work boots are hard to beat

For the last six months I’ve been putting a pair of Keen Mt. Vernon Mid boots through the paces. Long story short: Out of six pairs of boots in my closet, these are the ones I choose almost every time. Made in the company’s Portland, Oregon factory, the Keen Mt. Vernon Mids (as in mid-length) […]

May 19, 2016

Safety

Construction No. 2 industry for hearing loss, study says

A study spanning a decade and incorporating hearing tests of more than 1.4 million American workers found that construction accounted for the second-highest prevalence of workers with a hearing impairment. Conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the “Hearing Impairment Among Noise-Exposed Workers” study estimated the prevalence of hearing loss at six levels […]

May 17, 2016

Business

With increase in extreme weather, construction industry partners with Obama to work on more resilient building codes

Citing research linking climate change with an increase in extreme weather occurrences and the likelihood of further increases in the future, President Obama recently hosted government agencies and private groups at the White House for a Conference on Resilient Building Codes. The conference, and the declaration of May as National Building Safety Month, occurred as the […]

May 13, 2016

Construction Equipment

With gentle skill, excavator operator rescues baby deer from deep mud

Typically when we see an excavator operator coming to the rescue it’s for a fellow operator. But in the video below, rather than assisting a loader or another excavator struggling in deep mud, this operator is coming to the aid of a young deer. That is a nasty muck to be sure and it’s unlikely […]

May 12, 2016