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Artist sculpts 12-ton “Phoenix” from construction debris
Artist Xu Bing spent 20 years away from his homeland of China, living and working in New York City. However, when he returned, the China he found was completely transformed. Urban landscapes had appeared with gleaming skylines, symbols of the country’s rapid industrial and socioeconomic evolution. Bing decided to visit a construction site to see […]
August 5, 2013
Construction Equipment
Guided artillery shells obliterate helicopters, a forklift and several cars
Log this one away in the “Friday Fun File,” because there’s no other reason to be posting this other than it’s just plain awesome. Via Jalopnik, he video below shows the Raytheon company’s extremely accurate Excalibur Ib artillery shell turning lots of different vehicles and equipment into dust. The Excalibur is GPS-guided, giving it deadly […]
August 2, 2013
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Train crashes into construction equipment as crew scrambles out of the way
This video is a few years old, but its quickness and shock value haven’t diminished. The footage is from a mounted camera inside a train and shows as it attempts to quickly brake as a construction crew and a few machines appear out of the fog after rounding a bend. You can see a few […]
August 1, 2013
Construction Equipment
Tilt-shift footage from Ritchie Bros. auction makes heavy equipment look like toys
Our friends over at Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers did a pretty cool thing during one of their recent auctions. Rather than grabbing normal footage of the huge event, they commissioned a “tilt-shift” filming. For those unfamiliar with the terminology, tilt-shift photography is basically a technique of filming that plays with the focus of the camera a […]
July 30, 2013
Roadbuilding
MDOT launches Toward Zero Deaths campaign with fatality messages
The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) on Wednesday launched a statewide safety campaign that features traffic signs displaying the number of traffic fatalities on Michigan roadways. The campaign, “Toward Zero Deaths,” is an MDOT effort “to influence driver behavior and improve safety.” It builds on the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) campaign, “Toward Zero Deaths: A […]
July 26, 2013
Construction Equipment
Chevy Silverado jumps sand dune, crashes spectacularly
In June we posted a video of a Ford Raptor jumping 180 feet through the air after launching off a sand dune. The jump was a record for the Silver Lake (Michigan) Sand Dunes. Not to be outdone, Bjørn Michaelsen tried to get everything his Chevrolet Silverado had with a dune launch of his own. And […]
July 26, 2013
Roadbuilding
CDOT crews complete I-70 bridge replacement ahead of schedule
The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) reopened Interstate 70 on Monday morning following a weekend of bridge work. CDOT announced the section of road, located between Interstate 25 and Federal Boulevard, opened approximately 4.5 hours ahead of schedule. More than 1,000 visited the viewing area over the weekend to watch more than 100 crew members […]
July 25, 2013
Construction Equipment
GEAR: Honda lawn mower tops 130 mph, breaks speed record
We can’t be the only ones who on visits to home improvement stores get caught up ogling the lawnmower section for extended periods of time. But even with all of that wishing, we never dreamed we’d see a mower like this. Our sister site Total Landscape Care posted a story and video about a Honda […]
July 23, 2013
Construction Equipment
Watch 220 years of Washington D.C. construction in 3 beautiful minutes
Earlier this week, we showed you a video that compressed 165 years of Manhattan construction into one minute. But today we’ve got an even cooler video that packs 220 years of Washington D.C. construction into 3 minutes. The video chronicles the construction of some of our nation’s most iconic and important buildings, beginning with the […]
July 19, 2013
Technology
House printing, crawling, concrete-eating demo robots point to automated jobsites of the future
As we noted in our piece on Komatsu’s new D61i-23 dozer, which uses machine control technology to automatically raise and lower its blade from rough dozing to finish grading, it’s easy to imagine a time when equipment won’t need human operators. You might shudder at the thought of robots preparing sites and then putting together […]
July 18, 2013
Construction Equipment
Ford’s new 3D printer can make car parts from sheet metal in just a few hours
By this point, everyone’s pretty familiar with 3D printing technology. It can be really useful for prototyping and designing new things, but also for restoring older things such as an automobile that needs a part that is no longer being made. Ford wanted to take advantage of that type of technology in its prototyping process […]
July 18, 2013
Business
Watch Manhattan’s 165-year growth into a sprawling metropolis in one minute
Cube Cities, a city visualization engine for the real estate industry, has put together a really cool video illustrating the power of its software by plotting the growth of Midtown Manhattan over the last 165 years. The one minute video flies through 16 decades, adding buildings to a map centered on the intersection of Central […]
July 15, 2013
Roadbuilding
CDOT uses child’s perspective to demonstrate proper lane merging
The Colorado Department of Transportation has launched a new series of messages to inform drivers about the “late merge,” a lane merging technique aimed at reducing traffic delays through construction zones. CDOT’s late merge messages, which consist of highway signs and an online video (shown below), emphasize travelers’ use of all open lanes until a […]
July 11, 2013
Construction Equipment
This teardown of a Porsche Carrera 3.2 is a beautiful look at the complexity of engines
You may have seen a teardown of an engine before, but the look and feel this one of a Porsche Carrera 3.2 accomplishes is something to be appreciated. The video uses stop motion animation in order to focus your attention on each and every part that is removed. The result is a almost like watching […]
July 10, 2013
Roadbuilding
Portland engineers use dish soap to move century-old bridge
Engineers in Portland, Oregon, had to get creative when they needed to replace the Sellwood Bridge. Cracks had begun to appear in the support beams of the 100-year-old bridge, and, as our sister site, Equipment World, reported, the structure’s unique design forced the engineers to move the bridge in one whole 1,100-foot piece. The engineers […]
July 10, 2013
Construction Equipment
Honda’s new “Hands” ad shows off all of the company’s innovations in an innovative way
The tagline Honda uses in its new commercial titled “Hands,” is “The Power of Dreams.” In case you haven’t noticed, the company is super into innovation, pushing things forward and encouraging new ideas in the plethora of industries it has a hand in. (Pun not intended.) The ad is a lot of fun and is […]
July 9, 2013
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Watch this tank utterly destroy a Toyota Prius
Among folks who know cars, who love driving cars and appreciate what true pieces of art automobiles can be, there isn’t much love for the Toyota Prius. It’s ugly, isn’t a whole lot of fun to drive—and yet is extremely popular. And on the other end of the spectrum are tanks. They’re big, powerful and […]
July 5, 2013
Roadbuilding
Chevy kicks off 2014 Silverado “Strong” campaign July 4
Chevrolet’s marketing for its 2014 Silverado kicks off this month with its latest campaign, featuring an original song called Strong, written and performed by country recording artist Will Hoge. [youtube 3ngOek2J65s nolink] Chevrolet says the ad, which is set to air July 4 in Texas before appearing in other parts of the U.S., includes real […]
July 3, 2013
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