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Miss. DOT wins PR awards
The Mississippi Department of Transportation has received the Judge’s Choice Award for its Centennial Campaign celebrating 100 years of service to the people of Mississippi. The award was presented during the Public Relations Association of Mississippi (PRAM) Annual Conference. The agency also won a PRism Award for the campaign and honors for individual entries, including […]
November 1, 2017
Equipment
Construction industry deserves more objective debate on global warming
Since construction equipment sends about 22 pounds of carbon dioxide into the air per gallon of diesel consumed, the topic of global warming, aka climate change, is not irrelevant to our industry. Unfortunately, you cannot have an objective conversation about this, thanks to the vast numbers of people who form opinions without ever investigating […]
July 3, 2017
Roadbuilding
UTA engineer assessing use of lasers to measure microtexture of aggregates in asphalt and concrete mixtures
Roger Walker, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), is working with the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) at Texas A&M to assess whether scanning lasers can accurately measure the microtexture of aggregates used in asphalt and concrete mixtures, according to a news release from UTA. The two-year, […]
May 20, 2016
Business
STEM graduates are finding a weak job market. Why that could be a big opportunity to fix construction’s skilled labor woes
A recent article at Business Insider revealed an odd wrinkle in the job market. According to Census Bureau statistics, less than half the college graduates with STEM degrees (science, technology, engineering and math) find jobs in STEM related fields. This wouldn’t be surprising except for the fact that so many people bleat on like a […]
July 11, 2014
Roadbuilding
Science behind how tires make sound could improve fuel economy
.Yokohama has announced that through work with the Japanese equivalent of NASA, the company for the first time has an understanding of how tires make sound. The company sent a team of researchers to work with those at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Institute of Space and Astronautical Science to create a 3D simulation of […]
April 14, 2014
Roadbuilding
‘Booth babes’ and the S.T.E.A.M. professions
I spent this past week (Jan. 20-24) covering World of Concrete 2014 in Las Vegas to learn about the latest technology, see new and updated equipment and talk with manufacturers, contractors and agency transportation professionals. My goal was to enhance my industry knowledge and build relationships. It helps me get a better understanding of the […]
January 27, 2014
Construction Equipment
Buildings, heavy equipment and more could one day be built from these robotic, self-assembling building blocks
Any time the words “like…in the movie ‘Terminator II’” are uttered in a news article, we tend to take notice. Worries of a post-apocalyptic future where the machines have taken control, this bit of news out of MIT is still pretty cool. A team of researchers there have built self-assembling robots that could be the […]
October 14, 2013
Safety
Va. Tech researchers develop hard hat sensor to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning
Each year about one or two American workers die of suffocation from carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. Typically, these deaths are the result of operating gasoline-powered tools in confined spaces. Researchers at Virginia Tech want to reduce that number to 0. So, this team developed a clever sensor that attaches to a hard hats that acts […]
August 26, 2013
Workforce
GM’s FIRST Competition teaches kids to build, battle robots to build interest in STEM careers
What do you do with kids who think math and science are boring? Give them a pile of parts, some software and computers, and let them build a robot. That in a nutshell is the FIRST Competition, a nationwide program put together by General Motors that’s meant to fire up the imaginations of kids and […]
August 23, 2013
Equipment
Opinion: Why I write about Global Warming on a construction equipment site
A reader from Europe recently asked why I spend a lot of time blogging about global warming and other such environmental topics, as this is a website primarily dedicated to heavy equipment and construction. Since his was a reasonable and well written letter, I did not immediately trash it as one has to with most […]
July 17, 2013
Construction Equipment
Dutch scientists engineer smog-eating street that reduces air pollution up to 45%
For a large number of Americans, driving is an absolute necessity. Unfortunately it’s one of the main contributors to air pollution due to the nitrogen oxides produced by the vehicles we drive. But what if the streets we drive on leveled the playing field? What if our roads literally ate smog? According to one group […]
July 11, 2013
Construction Equipment
Adopting ancient Roman recipe could result in stronger concrete that is less harmful to the environment
Using a sample from the bottom of Italy’s Pozzuoili Bay that dates back to 37 B.C., researchers have deciphered the formula that ancient Romans used to create the most resilient concrete the world has ever seen in the hopes that modern processes will incorporate them as well. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, the sample comes from concrete breakwaters […]
June 20, 2013
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