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Construction Equipment

Kubota to open $90 million center in Kansas with largest warehouses

Kubota plans to build a $90 million logistics center for construction and agricultural equipment and parts in Kansas that will include the company’s largest ever warehouses – two at over 1-million-square-feet each, according to the Nikkei Asian Review. The center will hold 70,000 parts and be built on 180 acres the company bought in Edgerton, […]

September 26, 2017

Roadbuilding

Systra buys IBT in effort to reach top-10 of bridge engineering firms

Global mass transit engineering and design firm Systra has acquired San Diego-based International Bridge Technologies in its quest to become a top-10 international bridge specialists, the company says. Before the acquisition, Systra was ranked 14th in the world in bridge engineering. Buying IBT will give Systra bridge design centers in the United States, Canada and […]

September 8, 2017

Roadbuilding

A renewed push for corporate tax reform to fund infrastructure projects

Rep. John Delaney (D-Md.) has been an advocate for bipartisan legislation to use revenues from overhauling the international tax code to pay for infrastructure upgrades. Now he is renewing a push for infrastructure and tax reform this fall, since the administration has not yet come up with a plan to pay for President Trump’s proposed […]

August 24, 2017

Roadbuilding

Milwaukee County DOT receives first Safe and Sustainable Snowfighting Award

The Salt Institute presented a Safe and Sustainable Snowfighting Award to Milwaukee County’s Department of Transportation Highway Division for excellence in environmental consciousness and effective management in the storage of winter road salt, CBS 58 WDJT-Milwaukee reports. This is the agency’s first time receiving the award and it joined 86 other transportation facilities in the […]

February 16, 2017

Roadbuilding

Texas leads U.S. equipment purchases in Q3, sales down 19 percent from 2013

If you believe everything is bigger in Texas, than it should come as no surprise that the state also needs the most road construction equipment. At 68 buyers during the third quarter of 2014, Texas construction companies financed the most road construction equipment in the United States. The numbers are according to an analysis of Equipment […]

November 21, 2014

Roadbuilding

Construction Angels to help families in need

At any given daylight moment across America, nearly 660,000 drivers are using cell phones or manipulating electronic devices while driving, a number that has held steady since 2010, according to a “Traffic Safety Facts Research Note” from the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration (NHTSA). Each day in the United States, more than nine people […]

September 12, 2014

Roadbuilding

Deadliest and safest places to drive in the United States

Road safety is always a concern, regardless of where you live. The good news is road fatalities across the United States are down 23 percent since 2005. The bad news: road fatalities still happen far too often. Michael Sivak, research professor at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, examined individual fatality rates per distance […]

September 5, 2014

Roadbuilding

How robot designed for Disney could extend lives of bridges

A new robot dubbed C2D2 developed by a team of Swiss researchers is able to move atop, underneath and across any surface, checking structural integrity as it roves, and could greatly extend the lives of bridges. Both de-icing salt and CO2 in the atmosphere corrode the reinforced concrete that most bridges are made of […]

September 4, 2014

Roadbuilding

VP Biden explains the importance of transportation infrastructure

Vice President Joe Biden wants to change the way the United States invests in transportation infrastructure. Biden calls it the “Grow America Act.” Watch Biden explain his plan and the importance of transportation infrastructure by clicking play on the video below! What do you think of Biden’s plan? Share your thoughts in a comment below!

July 25, 2014

Roadbuilding

BigRentz.com secures deal with United Rentals, adds more than 800 locations

BigRentz.com announced last week that it has added more than 800 new equipment rental locations in the past month. The additional locations are the result of a deal with United Rentals, which allows BigRentz.com to provide equipment through all of United Rentals’ branches in the U.S. and Canada. United Rentals has more than 830 locations […]

August 19, 2013

Business

Opinion: Bill extensions becoming the norm for this Congress

I had to laugh a little, sadly, last week when I read that Congress couldn’t get a farm bill passed. Instead of the usual five-year farm bill, Congress had to squeak out a nine-month extension. Welcome to our world, farmer friends. And take note of this weary warning from your construction brethren: Congress has been […]

January 20, 2013

Construction Equipment

LGH expands in southeastern United States

Lifting Gear Hire (LGH) is expanding in the southeast region of the United States. In the last two years, LGH has opened a new warehouse in the southeast and added two new rental representatives. In August 2011, LGH hired rental representative Jon Trucksis to help service North and South Carolina. In July, LGH opened […]

October 25, 2012