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Dealers

Construction equipment dealers to contractors amid coronavirus: “We’re open.”

Dealers have two critical constituencies when dealing with the COVID-19 coronavirus: their employees and their customers. It’s a balancing act as dealers adjust to dealing with what they should and should not do during the virus outbreak. General Equipment & Supplies techs are sanitizing any shared tools, and sanitizing equipment cabs both before and after […]

March 26, 2020

Business

Cat to close some facilities due to coronavirus impact on demand as company withdraws 2020 outlook

Caterpillar announced Thursday that it will temporarily close some of its manufacturing facilities in response to the coronavirus outbreak. The company has also withdrawn its 2020 earnings outlook due to the economic uncertainty surrounding the global pandemic. The heavy equipment maker says that while the majority of U.S. facilities remain open and operational, operations have […]

March 26, 2020

Safety

Worried about coronavirus on the jobsite? HCSS delivers social-distancing-friendly digital construction safety talks

While construction workers generally don’t gather into large groups every day, the need for social distancing during the coronavirus outbreak is still a concern. And if there is one time when site workers do gather into a group it is the daily or weekly safety briefing. But thanks to technology, this briefing need not be […]

March 25, 2020

Dealers

Bejac now Tigercat dealer in California, Nevada

Bejac is now the Tigercat dealer for California and Nevada. The Los Angeles-based dealer will offer Tigercat’s forestry equipment, including feller bunchers, skidders, loggers and carbonizers. “Their specialized forestry machines are excellent quality and a perfect complement to our other equipment lines,” says Ron Barlet, Bejac president. With both tree length and cut to length […]

March 25, 2020

Business

As coronavirus shuts down construction in parts of U.S., others accelerate work

It’s a mixed, fast-evolving picture when it comes to construction project shutdowns throughout the U.S. due to the coronavirus threat. And even in areas where all-out construction bans have taken place – Pennsylvania and Boston in particular – exceptions are being made. In Pennsylvania, for example, where the governor decreed projects shut down this past […]

March 24, 2020

Dealers

ARA Member Survey: Rental revenues will “significantly deteriorate” due to coronavirus

After polling its members, the American Rental Association says “rental revenues are declining and are projected to significantly deteriorate in the coming months” due to impacts from the coronavirus crisis. As of March 16, 32.92 percent of  ARA’s construction/industrial and general tool/DIY member survey respondents say they’ve been experiencing up to 15 percent revenue loss; […]

March 24, 2020

Business

The Coronavirus and Construction Contracts: Does insurance cover work stoppages? Are you covered if your subcontactors cease work? It’s time to find out.

By  Meghan DiPerna, Kenneth H. Lazaruk and Brian A. Shue * As you have undoubtedly heard, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is affecting the global construction industry. Notably, as of March 17, Boston halted all construction jobs in the city for two weeks due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This decision has affected approximately 21.4 million square feet of new or […]

March 23, 2020

Dealers

Nors Group buys Strongco, takes over Volvo CE dealer locations across Canada

Portugal-based Nors Group has bought Canadian dealer Strongco and will take over its Volvo Construction Equipment dealerships in Canada. Nors is taking over 22 Volvo CE locations, including those in the provinces of Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador. Nors “has built a reputation as an outstanding dealer that is […]

March 23, 2020

Business

Opinion: A very different ConExpo amid coronavirus concerns

It already was going to be different. ConExpo-Con/Agg 2020 had complicated logistics to overcome from the get-go. The Las Vegas Convention Center is in the middle of a massive expansion that took out the footprint of the former Gold Lot, forcing companies to relocate. Many relocated to what became Festival Grounds, situated a mile away […]

March 20, 2020

Contractor of the Year

This engineer ‘wanted to be the guy.’ So he built a successful construction firm

John Kovacs never thought he was on a path to a career in construction. With an engineering degree from The Citadel and ambitions to work in Manhattan, Kovacs started his career with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and entered the agency’s management training program. However, Kovacs’ opinion of contracting changed drastically […]

March 20, 2020

Construction Equipment

Case PT240D pneumatic tire roller made for large road projects

Case Construction Equipment’s new PT240D pneumatic tire roller is designed to require fewer passes and improve penetration and compaction density. It is built for sub-base and asphalt compaction on large road and highway projects, airport runways and commercial development. The compactor runs on a 100-horsepower, turbocharged, Tier 4 Final Deutz engine. The engine requires no […]

March 19, 2020

Maintenance

Cease work and turn off the engine when you see these red flags on an oil analysis report

Oil analysis can show you trends in the health of your engines and oil. It can also tip you off to eminent catastrophic failure. If you catch these problems early enough, you can fix the underlying problem, drain and refill the crankcase with new oil, and monitor the results with further oil analysis, saving thousands […]

March 19, 2020