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This Week's 10 Hottest Construction Stories: New Rules Open PPP Payoff to the Smallest Businesses

Why the most-read construction stories include how to troubleshoot concrete cracks, 9-day continuous concrete pour slipforming grain silos, where surface transportation funding stands, six factors when adding drones to your construction business

Construction News Tracker: Arctic Blast from Texas to Maine Drives Fuel Prices Skyward

All construction material prices increased during January for the first time since 2018, NAHB measured a 14.5% increase in new home construction permits in 2020, PCA forecasts 2021 regional cement consumption to be led by a 3% increase in the South

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Economists Predict Rocky Road to Recovery for Construction Industry

Dodge Data & Analytics forecasts that the U.S. infrastructure segment won't return to normal levels until 2023.

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AED Partners with ITB to Provide Equipment Distribution Content

Inside the Blueprint (ITB) and Associated Equipment Distributors (AED) partner to provide AED and its members with educational content regarding issues, initiatives and new solutions relating to the equipment distribution industry.

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The Art of Selling Your Business: An Excerpt

After 2020, you may be wondering if now is the right time to sell your business. The first step is to understand the landscape of potential acquirers.

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Top 10 Trends That Will Influence Equipment Acquisition in 2021

To help its members gauge the trends like to affect the market this year, ELFA has identified the Top 10 Equipment Acquisition Trends for 2021.

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Equipment Finance Confidence Remains Largely Unchanged in January

While the Monthly Confidence Index was changed for the month, there was a notable uptick in optimism for business conditions over the next four months.

If you don’t feel amped how do you realistically believe that your employees will feel it?

How to Get Your Construction Workers Excited for Work

Taking a time out once a year is a great time to refresh tired minds and bodies

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10 Marketing Tips that Drive Sales

Follow this 10-point marketing plan to generate new business and encourage repeat sales.

Students learn construction skills at the Wilkes Community College (WCC) Building Construction program.

Lowe's Donates to Community College Building Construction Program

Lowe's and its Generation T program have donated to a community college's construction training program.

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Routine maintenance and daily cleaning will keep your trowels productive and safe.

During your construction off season, improve how you conduct business. Analyze and refine your business’ systems and processes. Figure out which areas are the weakest and costing you the most money. Question every assumption you’ve been using about why the process has to be done the way it always has been done.

How to Make the Construction Off-season Productive

The three most important off-season activities are redoubling marketing and sales efforts, tweaking estimating and production management assumptions and improving your team

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TraLaMa Launches to Connect Trade Laborers with Employment

America's Floor Source's CEO Jason Goldberg, introduces a trade labor marketplace and online community where businesses can find skilled trade labor, and where trade laborers can find long-term employment or short-term work.

With 29% of San Francisco Unified School District students lacking internet access at home, students met outdoors in a Bayview-Hunters Point park with a wi-fi hotspot to ensure families without broadband access could participate. The Oculus Quest headsets were donated earlier in the year by Swinerton Builders, a commercial construction company that provides additional services in green building.

Students Learn Construction Skills Through Virtual Reality

A collaboration between Brightline Defense, CityBuild Academy and TRANSFR VR will make construction industry job training accessible to thousands of low-income youth as part of a free, citywide program.

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4 Things to Consider Before Adding a New Service to Your Company Offerings

Interested in adding additional services to your company? Check out these tips to help establish a business plan.

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5 Ways Leaders Can Motivate and Inspire Remote Teams

AEM shares five useful and common-sense ways in which business leaders can motivate remote teams and help them keep pace with organizational demands and goals.

SC&R Foundation Announces Winners of the October Vocational and Technical Scholarship

The SC&R Foundation selected eight winners for the October Vocational and Technical Scholarship in its commitment to workforce development.

Serious Labs Partners with GPRC to Provide Student Training Solutions

Serious Labs and Grande Prairie Regional College have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to bring innovative training solutions to students — implementing current VR training and collaborating on new solutions.

Through Procore.org, Procore's social impact arm, USMCA members will receive free Procore product training, educational resources and a discounted buying program for the Procore platform.

Procore, U.S. Minority Contractors Partner on Resources

Through Procore.org, Procore's social impact arm, USMCA members will receive free Procore product training, educational resources, and a discounted buying program for the Procore platform.

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ASSP and ANSI Announce Revised Standard for Construction Safety

The American Society of Safety Professionals and the American National Standards Institute has revised a standard to help keep construction workers safe by highlighting best practices to be implemented in safety programs.

Michael J. Sormilic, an online power generation student from Southbury, Conn., who has spent much of the Fall 2020 semester learning the ins and outs of the equipment, stands alongside a Cummins crane engine donated to Pennsylvania College of Technology by Terex Corp. Behind him, in the control room of the dyno lab, are John D. Motto (left), diesel equipment technology instructor, and Chris Macdonald, assistant director of corporate relations.

Terex Corp. Donates Equipment to Pennsylvania College of Technology

Terex Corporation has donated a new crane engine and four drive axles for instructional purposes to the Pennsylvania College of Technology's heavy equipment and diesel technology programs.

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IPAF Provides Membership Fee Discount Due to COVID-19

IPAF has offered a 25 percent discount on the 2020 membership fee to provide financial assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Navigating the Legal Maze of Rental Purchase Options

In the rental industry post-COVID, there have been more requests for rental purchase options and outright equipment purchases. However, companies need to be prepared for a different set of legal landmines and liabilities.

Build Your Future (BYF) is NCCER's national image enhancement and recruitment initiative for the construction industry.

NCCER and BYF Announce Scholarship and I BUILT THIS! Contest Winners

BYF, an initiative to recruit the next generation of craft professionals, presents the recipients of the Careers in Construction Month scholarships and I BUILT THIS! contest winners.

The third and final webinar presented this Fall, “What Does the Future Look Like for the Construction Industry?,” will air live on Dec. 1, 2020.

Webinar Aims to Help Contractors Maintain Profitability Post-Pandemic

On Dec. 1, 2020, the BCA Insurance Group, Avrio Solutions and TD Bank will host a webinar series to help contractors navigate the future of construction post-pandemic. Their aim is to provide information to help contractors find continued success.

Travis Long successfully completed five weeks of in person fundamental training at the Wirtgen Center for Training and Technology in Nashville, TN; and completed over 200 hours of additional technical training to become one of the first 'Master Technicians' in the United States.

Companies Continue to Prioritize Training During Pandemic

Murphy Tractor's Travis Long was one of two inaugural graduates to receive the "Master Technician" certification from the Wirtgen Group

DOZR Unveils E-Commerce Online Equipment Rental Software

WebStores’ white-labeled software solutions integrate with equipment rental websites, enabling touchless transactions with an online checkout on an existing website.

Associated Ready Mixed Concrete of California has begun using a survey system to improve driving safety.

Concrete Supplier Using Survey System to Improve Driver Safety, Retention

Associated Ready Mixed Concrete of California has begun using a survey system to improve driving safety.

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Construction Training During a Pandemic

Training may look a little different this year, but it's still important to engage your crew to ensure the long term success of your construction business.

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Asphalt Contractor 2020-2021 Training Guide

With some training courses for the asphalt industry cancelled or going virtual over the next year, this guide offers a list of opportunities for contractors to continue learning, despite the pandemic

Make sure you have a marketing plan in place to help focus your marketing efforts, suggests L.M. Scofield's Cam Villar. Whether in depth or simple, make sure to at least include the market you want to serve and who your target audience will be.

Marketing Polished and Stained Decorative Concrete Floors

When it comes to marketing polished or stained decorative concrete floors contractors should focus on promoting the benefits as well as the aesthetics.

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CEMEX announces winner of the Architect Marcelo Zambrano Scholarship

CEMEX announced its latest scholarship winner.

Just because you didn't submit a price to the winning GC prior to the bid doesn't mean you can't after the work has been awarded.

How General Contractors Choose the Winning Sub

Familiarize yourself with the buy-out process many project managers go through and use these steps to make you the most desirable subcontractor for a job