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Business

Hard work, soft touch: 3 steps to becoming an effective, modern construction company leader

As anyone who has ever owned a business can tell you, being in charge and being a leader isn’t necessarily the same thing. When you’re running a company, it’s important to make conscious decisions as a leader that will not only enrich your firm, but also benefit your people. In construction, reputation is everything, and […]

June 17, 2014

Construction Equipment

10 awesome Father’s Day gifts for the construction pro and mechanic (PHOTOS)

[imagebrowser id=90] We know. Buying for Dad is hard. But rather than go the easy route and buying him a tie or gift card at the last minute, show Dad you care with one of these great gifts on Sunday. If your Dad works in the construction business and you’re out of ideas, or if you […]

June 12, 2014

Business

Obama signs water projects reauthorization bill into law

President Barack Obama signed the $12.3 billion Water Resources Reform and Development Act (WRRDA) into law on Tuesday, marking the first water projects reauthorization in seven years. The House and Senate both passed the bill last month. Known as the Water Resources Reform and Development Act (WRRDA), the bill authorizes funding for water infrastructure projects. It […]

June 11, 2014

Technology

What the defeat of Al Qaeda in Iraq, big data, telematics and reverse mentoring can teach you about running a construction company

About a third of the way through retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s new biography My Share of the Task  it becomes apparent that his team’s use of big data played a key role in the defeat of the Iraqi insurgency between 2004 and 2007. Our military has struggled since Vietnam to come up with a way of […]

June 6, 2014

Business

Construction job growth slows in May with 6,000 jobs added

The U.S. construction industry notched its fifth straight month of employment gains in May but saw growth fall off considerably. The industry added 6,000 jobs in May, compared to April’s revised number of 34,000. The original April data from the Commerce Department showed a gain of 32,000 jobs. Construction now employs 6.004 million Americans, 3-percent higher […]

June 6, 2014

Safety

Critics aside, OSHA has drastically reduced worker deaths and injuries since its inception (INFOGRAPHIC)

The Occupational Safety and Health Act was signed into law in 1970, bringing about OSHA. And though the agency gets its fair share of grief over its stream of regulations from construction firms and contractors (much of it rightly so), the organization has overall had a very positive impact on what it means to be […]

June 4, 2014

Business

Construction spending up 0.2% in April due to increase in government projects

Thanks to gains in both government projects and home building, U.S. construction spending saw another slight boost in April, rising to its highest level in five years. Construction spending rose to $953.5 billion in April, an increase of 0.2 percent from the revised March figure of $951.5 billion. Due to the revision of that figure, what […]

June 2, 2014

Workforce

How to survive your first month working in construction

In a previous post, I described the attitudes and behavior newbies need to survive their first week on a construction site. Now let’s turn our attention to what folks new to the construction industry need to know to survive their first month. Assuming you show up 15 minutes early every morning, come prepared, and work […]

May 30, 2014

Dealers

Ditch Witch, Volvo, Talbert Manufacturing name top dealers in this week’s Dealer News Roundup

Welcome to the Dealer News Roundup, your one-stop shop for all the moves going on inside the heavy equipment distributor industry. We post a new edition just about every week with news on hires, promotions, new locations and expansions. Check back for a new edition every week! Ditch Witch honors top 10 dealerships for superior […]

May 30, 2014

Construction Equipment

Caterpillar launches the 990K: a more powerful wheel loader with more payload and a redesigned cab (PHOTOS)

[imagebrowser id=84] Caterpillar has unveiled its latest wheel loader, replacing the 990H with the new, more powerful and more comfortable 990K. Cat increased the payload of the loader from 16.5 tons to 17.5 tons and says it pairs nicely with the 773, 775 and 777 construction and mining trucks. (In order to load the 777, […]

May 29, 2014

Safety

Woman hit by flying buzzsaw in New York City construction accident

A three-foot buzzsaw blade became detached on a New York City road construction site Tuesday and went airborne, eventually hitting a woman walking by the site. According to a report from NBC New York, a construction crew working to fix a water main break was tearing up a section of the roadway at 48th Street and […]

May 29, 2014

Construction Equipment

Beautiful time-lapse captures 10-year construction of 9/11 Memorial Museum

There is an undeniable beauty and resilience to the National September 11 Memorial Museum that quietly captures how we as Americans came to terms with that awful tragedy nearly 13 years ago. It is evidence of both the will to move forward and to grow, while choosing to never ignore the undeniable impact and pain […]

May 26, 2014