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Press explodes 800-lb. concrete cylinder with sheer force
At the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign the engineering department has a pretty cool toy. It’s a giant mechanical press that can apply up to 3 million pounds of pressure on a given object. To show its strength at an open house, the engineers placed an 800-pound, 18-inches-wide concrete cylinder beneath the press and started applying […]
September 4, 2013
Roadbuilding
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opens on Labor Day
Despite an announcement earlier this summer that the East Span of San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge would not open as scheduled on Labor Day, the $6.4 billion span began carrying drivers late Monday night, according to a report from The Sacramento Bee. The 2,047-foot span has been under construction for more than a decade. The project […]
September 3, 2013
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Volvo equipment demo/dance showcases nimble giants
It takes a lot of skill to run construction machines. Being able to run them in a choreographed sequence at high speed in a crowded field–that’s taking it to the next level. As part of its Innovation Days festivities in Eskilstuna, Sweden last week, Volvo Construction Equipment treated the press to this high octane equipment […]
September 2, 2013
Construction Equipment
Why cutting off a concrete truck is always a bad idea
This one’s not too complicated, folks. While the thought “Oh hey, a concrete truck is approaching but I think I can sneak in ahead of him,” could occur to you, as a general rule you should never act on it for obvious reasons. The importance of this rule is multiplied by a thousand fold when […]
August 29, 2013
Construction Equipment
How to wreck one truck while attempting to haul another
Just in case you’re interested in learning how to manage nearly flipping a pickup truck by loading another onto the trailer attached to it, look no further than the video below. [youtube anBwMhiYeTk nolink]
August 27, 2013
Roadbuilding
Crews construct world’s largest self-anchored suspension bridge
In California, crews have been working for more than 10 years to construct the largest self-anchored suspension (SAS) bridge in the world, and Wired has shared some close-up photos of the project, thanks to photographer Joseph Blum, who has seen the entire construction project so far. [youtube wJeyD_67YMo nolink] The 2,047-foot eastern span of San […]
August 26, 2013
Roadbuilding
South Korea’s new Armadillo-T electric car folds for compact parking
The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has developed an electric car that can fold to fit into tight parking spaces. The vehicle was designed for personal and public transit use. In-Soo Suh, associate professor of the Graduate School for Green Transportation at KAIST, and his research team got their inspiration for the […]
August 23, 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
Roadbuilding
Amtrak offers electric locomotive facility preview, discusses new train’s power
Amtrak on Wednesday offered Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.) a preview of its Wilmington Maintenance Facility, where the company is testing its new electric locomotives, according to Delaware’s WDDE. The facility is in the final stages of testing the Siemens-manufactured Amtrak Cities Sprinter (ACS-64), which debuted in Sacramento, California, in May. Amtrak ordered 70 of the locomotives […]
August 22, 2013
Construction Equipment
Pickup launches over I-96 guardrail before falling into creek
Talk about impeccable timing. Just as a man driving a Nissan pickup hauling a utility trailer and riding lawnmower  jumped a guardrail and fell to a creek below, a woman nearby captured the moment on video using the smartphone video app Vine. The 59-year-old man from Kentwood, Michigan veered into a median on Interstate 96 […]
August 21, 2013
Roadbuilding
Craziest Roads in the World
I’m sure you’ve worked on your share of difficult projects, but I doubt any of them can compare to the roads in this video. [youtube JNde2A3jiYY nolink] With two in the United States, the video shows roads that should be reserved for daredevils and stunt crews. They aren’t just steep – some of them even […]
August 21, 2013
Construction Equipment
Ritchie Bros.’ Top 5 heavy equipment movies, includes the awful 1974 classic “Killdozer”
Our friends over at Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers have done a very nice thing for you. They’ve rounded up the top five movies where heavy equipment and trucks are the stars. The whole list is worth checking out, so hop on that. But we’re mostly excited that the list gave us an excuse to watch 1974’s […]
August 20, 2013
Construction Equipment
Dump truck driver unaware he’s hauling a raging fire
This video comes to us from our friends in Russia, where apparently anything can happen on the highways. And as crazy as all the videos taken by dashboard cameras have been, this guy driving a dump truck full of fire is by far the nuttiest thing we’ve seen on a Russian road. The video shows […]
August 16, 2013
Construction Equipment
Chinese workers build a 15-story hotel in 6 days
Late last month, construction began on Sky City, a 2,749-foot Chinese skyscraper that will become the world’s tallest building. But what’s even more remarkable than its immense size is the fact that Sky City is expected to be complete at some point in the next seven or 10 months. The current world’s tallest building, Dubai’s […]
August 14, 2013
Construction Equipment
Backhoes, wheel loaders and other oversized hauls crash repeatedly into Indianapolis bridge
In order to reduce complaints surrounding the three-month-long detours around several bridges undergoing repair, the Indiana Department of transportation released the video below giving a very good reason as to why the repairs are needed. According to our sister site Better Roads, the video comes from INDOT cameras installed beneath the Virginia Avenue Bridge in Indianapolis and […]
August 12, 2013
Construction Equipment
Filmmaker Werner Herzog details perils of texting while driving in “From One Second to the Next”
This film has nothing to do with construction, but show it to your employees anyway. It’s the best safety briefing you’ll give all year. It’s a 35 minute film about the dangers of texting while driving. I know this sounds like the classic army training film, “Advanced Lawnmower Safety.” Trust me, it’s anything but. It […]
August 12, 2013
Construction Equipment
How to charge your truck battery with a chainsaw
In the event that we ever wander off into remote woods to cut some firewood and return to a truck with a dead battery, well, now we know how to get out of that jam. Joking aside, the video below displays a heck of a lot of ingenuity and know-how and could come in handy […]
August 8, 2013
Construction Equipment
Shrapnel from Calif. steam power plant implosion injures spectators
Just as the recent and deadly demolition of a Philadelphia building showed us, keeping the chaos of a collapsing building constrained to a particular area requires a lot of focus and planning. And sometimes the focus and the planning just aren’t there. Unfortunately, just a few days ago we received another reminder of this as […]
August 7, 2013
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