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Construction Equipment

Artist sculpts 12-ton “Phoenix” from construction debris

Artist Xu Bing spent 20 years away from his homeland of China, living and working in New York City. However, when he returned, the China he found was completely transformed. Urban landscapes had appeared with gleaming skylines, symbols of the country’s rapid industrial and socioeconomic evolution. Bing decided to visit a construction site to see […]

August 5, 2013

Construction Equipment

Watch 220 years of Washington D.C. construction in 3 beautiful minutes

Earlier this week, we showed you a video that compressed 165 years of Manhattan construction into one minute. But today we’ve got an even cooler video that packs 220 years of Washington D.C. construction into 3 minutes. The video chronicles the construction of some of our nation’s most iconic and important buildings, beginning with the […]

July 19, 2013

Business

Home starts stumble 10% in June while single-family permits hit highest rate in 5 years

In what’s beginning to become a sustained pattern of ups and downs, the start of construction on new homes in the U.S. fell 9.9 percent in June, according to data from the Commerce Department Wednesday. June’s stumble likely resuscitates fears that the housing recovery isn’t as healthy as many thought a few months ago. May […]

July 17, 2013

Business

Construction materials prices slip slightly in June, up 1.5% annually

The average cost of materials used by the construction industry plus items consumed by contractors such as diesel fuel fell 0.1 percent in June, according to Associated General Contractors of America’s latest analysis of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. However, compared to June of last year, construction materials prices were up 1.5 percent. […]

July 16, 2013

Pickups

New Products 7-13

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July 15, 2013

Pickups

LED Rotating Beacon

Hella Introduces DuraRAY Rotating Beacon The new DuraRAY LED rotating beacon, now offered by Hella Inc., is ideal for mining and construction applications where the cost of equipment downtime is large and safety is paramount. The new warning beacon is crafted with cast alloy housing and a chemical resistant Xylex lens for increased mechanical strength and […]

July 15, 2013

Business

Watch Manhattan’s 165-year growth into a sprawling metropolis in one minute

Cube Cities, a city visualization engine for the real estate industry, has put together a really cool video illustrating the power of its software by plotting the growth of Midtown Manhattan over the last 165 years. The one minute video flies through 16 decades, adding buildings to a map centered on the intersection of Central […]

July 15, 2013

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Japan’s cartoon animal road construction signs are weird and cute (PHOTOS)

Oh, Japan. Just when we think your delightful culture can’t seem any more foreign to us, you go and do something like turning your road construction signs into adorable cartoon animals. According to our sister site Better Roads, the signs have become popular across Japan since 2006 and were implemented as a creative way to […]

July 12, 2013

Pickups

GammaTech Tablets

GammaTech Introduces New Model to the Tablet Family Workers need mobile applications that can withstand the dangers of construction sites. Sites call for technology that is durable, lightweight and rugged. When it comes to these types of technology, GammaTech’s line of Durabook tablets is up for the challenge. Whether used indoors or in an office, GammaTech’s […]

July 11, 2013

Pickups

Model 660 LED Worklight

J.W. Speaker Introduces a Powerful LED Light J.W. Speaker has released the newest member to its family of LED worklights: the Model 660. The Model 660 delivers a powerful 1,600 effective lumens of white LED light in a flood beam pattern, making it perfect for agricultural applications, construction, mining and maintenance of way equipment. The […]

July 11, 2013

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Construction begins on world’s first underwater hotel (PHOTOS)

In what is sure to be a project to remember for the crews putting it together, construction has begun in Dubai on the world’s very first underwater hotel. With a design that resembles the USS Enterprise from ‘Star Trek’ and a function akin to ‘Sealab 2020,’ the Water Discus Hotel will bring whole new meaning […]

July 8, 2013

Business

Want your construction business to be more successful? Diversify your personnel.

In interviewing contractors across the country for our Contractor of the Year program, Equipment World editors get a pretty good sense of what works—and what doesn’t—across a range of business practices. Because turnover in the construction industry is such a problem, I’m always interested to see what strategies contractors use to recruit and retain. However, […]

June 28, 2013