Tag: construction firm

Safety

New safety vests, gloves designed for women in construction

Construction firm Skanska got tired of seeing its female employees struggle with unisex safety vests and gloves that didn’t fit properly. So it partnered with Colony Hardware and Radians to create off-the-shelf safety vests and gloves designed for women that are now available companywide and will eventually be for sale to the public, the company […]

May 14, 2019

Safety

Wash. subcontractor fined $126,400 after trench violations on bridge project

Colf Construction of Vancouver, Washington, has been fined $126,400 in safety citations by L&I's Division of Occupational Safety and Health. Learn more here.

October 17, 2018

Roadbuilding

World’s longest concrete cable-stayed bridge to be ‘stitched together’

The Panama Canal's concrete cable-stayed bridge, the Atlantic Bridge, is soon to be the longest in the world at 1,739 feet. Check it out on Equipment World!

September 3, 2018

Construction Equipment

Epiroc integrates dust suppression into new SB hydraulic breakers

In an effort to help the construction industry meet OSHA’s silica-dust reduction regulations, Epiroc has added a dust suppression system to its new line of hydraulic breaker attachments. Epiroc, a subsidiary of Atlas Copco that is being spun off into its own company, has added an internal water port as standard on the SB Series […]

March 20, 2018

Business

Chicago-based construction firm celebrating 120th year

The Walsh Group traces its beginnings back 120 years when Matthew Myles Walsh started a carpentry business out of his home in Chicago in 1898. Since then, the company has grown to more than 8,000 employees with 18 regional offices. It is a multi-billion-dollar business and ranked the 11th-largest construction firm in the United States, […]

January 18, 2018