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Check out this hilarious video of the damage that occurs to street-side mailboxes and learn more about the Save The Endangered Mailbox contest, sponsored by QUIKRETE.
The market trend continues toward contractors buying into sophisticated surveying technologies.
Free software allows accurate prediction of maximum temperature and temperature differential.
Control of concrete paving work is going stringless, which improves ride and reduces concrete consumption.
Complicted concrete shapes can be constructed with 3D design software, which are cut out using CNC routers.
Wayne Brothers Inc. uses self-consolidating concrete to construct six free-standing shear walls at Fayetteville State University in Fayetteville, N.C.
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Pick up the remote control, flip the switch, and the little green machine comes alive, skittering across the floor like a low-flying alien spacecraft or a high-tech dual-head lawnmower. Is this some toy maker's demonstration? a convention of wireless enthusiasts? No, it was the 2005 World of...
In this day and age, knowing the current technology options can benefit how you do business.
Van and Lawrence Smith founded Smith Bros. Concrete Contractors, Walden, N.Y., in 1975. They bought a truck for $300 and had to borrow $3 for gas to drive it home. For the first several years they installed block and brick masonry but gradually shifted their emphasis to poured foundations for...
To effectively manage materials across the supply chain for just-in-time delivery, this company turned to Vela Systems and Tekla Corp. to provide a Field BIM solution.
Increase company efficiency by employing a software package that keeps equipment functional and tracks costs.
Identity theft has reached an all time high. These are steps you can take to protect yourself and your business.
How to increase productivity in the office and on the jobsite.
Panel drawings from the field using web-based software proves efficient.
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Dow Corning Corporation today announced its participation and contribution of Dow Corning Vacuum Insulation Panel technology to the Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems (CSE) Building Technology Showcase.
Project collaboration software allows control of multiple subcontractors and vendors from a single location.
PDF editing software will soon make design questions even easier to answer, and a Field BIM solution saves money on a design/build stadium project.
With budgets tight in the current economy, no company can afford to waste time and resources on redundant work.
Like a kid jumping into the pool feet first, the construction industry has rapidly gone from lagging to leading in the use of computers.
Despite all of the hype, contractors aren't adopting building information modeling as quickly as you'd think. Here's why they aren't and what BIM holds for the future of the industry.