[VIDEO] Top 10 Construction Stories This Week: Measuring Infrastructure Bill’s Construction Boost

Why the most-read construction stories of the week include how Trimble's Roadworks 3D asphalt paving system works, exoskeletons move from science fiction to market to stop repetitive stress, Ford announces electric F-150, and more

February 12, 2021

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Top 10 Hottest Construction Stories This Week: Measuring Infrastructure Bill’s Construction Boost

Most-read construction stories of the week include how Trimble's Roadworks 3D asphalt paving system works, exoskeletons move from science fiction to market to stop repetitive stress, Ford announces electric F-150

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Construction Supply Chain and the Baltimore Bridge Collapse

How much will construction and other supply chains be impacted by the collapse of the Baltimore Bridge and the suspension of traffic through the Port of Baltimore? End users may temporarily face delays and increases.

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Opioids in Construction: How Home-based Drug Deactivation & Disposal Saves Lives

Whether used by children or adults, excess medications in the household are a huge threat. Eliminating unused medications should be a top priority. Your employees should know that this is important to you as an employer.

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This Week’s 10 Hottest Construction Stories: OSHA Updates COVID-19 Guidance

Why the most-read construction stories include a vehicle mileage tax coming, Deutz targets 2024 to produce hydrogen engines, Bill Gates promises $1.5B for green infrastructure, how mentors helped shape a woman’s construction career

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[VIDEO] The Week's Top 10 Construction Stories: VBC Approved to Buy Troubled Katerra Assets

Here's why the most-read construction stories include Hawbaker paying record $21M for Davis Bacon violations, AEC firms 2X more likely to see ransomware attacks, ultra-high-performance concrete coming, is infrastructure politics really about deficits?

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This Week's Top 10 Construction Stories: What's the Senate Got for Infrastructure? And How We’ll Pay for It

Why the most-read construction stories include Danfoss buying Eaton Hydraulics, taking advantage of 2021’s 3 equipment challenges, building a foundation 17 ft below sea level, 5 strategies to overcome labor shortages, satisfy sealcoating expectations

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The Week’s Top 10 Construction Stories: DeCarlo Demolishes a 1959-Vintage Sears Store

Why the most-read construction stories include 6 in-demand construction certifications, how to get resources needed to handle the work, civil firms expect booming work volume and labor challenges, 3D file transfer supercharges Veit’s technology advantages

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[VIDEO] This Week's Top 10 Construction Stories: This is the Most American Pickup

Why the most-read construction stories include a ranking of pickup trucks by their value to the US economy, why contractors are detailing formwork in-house, tips for hot-weather concreting, next up for infrastructure funding, how to attract new employees

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This Week’s Top 10 Stories: How To Prevent the 4 Most Common Construction Injuries

Why the most-read construction stories include how to prevent the 4 most common construction injuries, researchers develop autonomous excavator, material shortages put contractors in crisis mode, how fast is the 702-hp 2021 Ram 1500 TRX, really?

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The Week’s Top 10 Construction Stories: Falling Lumber Prices Cushion Inflation but Not Costs

Why the most-read construction stories include: 931 homes rely on retaining wall in So Cal, construction costs edge up for the eighth straight month, updates on what we know about the Miami condo collapse, world's first 3d-printed school built in 18 hours

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The Week’s Hottest 10 Construction Stories: Husqvarna Battery Cut-Off Saw Matches Gasoline Power

Why the most-read construction stories include OSHA’s new COVID-19 standard, lumber prices falling, Astec rebrand explained, 2021 Top Asphalt Businesses, outcome of the first Davis-Bacon Senate vote in 10 years, 2021 Top Paving Contractors

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The Week's 10 Most-Read Construction Stories: Ford Unveils Maverick Compact Pickup Under $20,000

Why the Top 10 construction stories include modest infrastructure investment could launch commercial construction surge, CA measures long-term performance of rapid-strength concrete pavement repairs, Biden concedes to 15% tax floor to fund infrastructure

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[VIDEO] The Week’s 10 Biggest Construction Stories: Four Reasons for Runaway Steel Prices

Insights into why the most-read stories of the week include supply chain challenges pushing construction costs up, 5 strategies for building your construction company’s value, robots’ potential to improve construction production, efficiency and safety

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The Week's Hottest 10 Construction Stories: Neglect on Display in Mississippi-River-Crossing Closure

Why the most-read stories stories include a deep dive into the electric Ford Lightning Pickup’s performance, emerging concrete tech to reduce embodied carbon, 5 key questions to decide when to buy and when to rent

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[VIDEO] This Week's Hot 10 Construction Stories: New Cat Loaders Burn 35% Less Fuel

Let's talk about why the most-read construction stories include Ford's all-new F-150 Lightning electric pickup, the Ultimate Guide to Asphalt Pavement Compaction, construction details of the Tokyo Aquatics Center for the 2021 Summer Olympics, and more

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[VIDEO] The Week's Top 10 Construction Stories: Causes and Solutions for Construction Back Pain

Here's why the most-read construction stories include when to use walk-behind trenchers, stand-on skid steers, and vacuum excavators, how to keep construction material delivery accountable, another measure of construction’s supply problem

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[VIDEO] The Week’s Top 10 Construction Stories: 11 OSHA Enforcement Changes Coming

Why the most-read construction stories include inflation and a tough transition to the post-COVID construction economy, Ford F-150 technology increases towing and hauling safety, benefits of hauling asphalt in live-bottom trailers, Top 5 industry trends

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[VIDEO] The Week's Top 10 Construction Stories: Differences Between Biden & Republican Infrastructure Plans

Here's why the most-read construction stories include rescheduling the world’s largest construction trade show, the 'Uber' of construction deliveries, work zone fatalities reach a 15-year high, impact on the economy if estate-tax exemptions are repealed

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[VIDEO]The Week's Top 10 Hottest Construction Stories: Industry Reacts to Biden Infrastructure Plan

Why these are construction’s most-read stories: how change orders hold back construction companies, corporations call tax hikes to pay for $2 trillion infrastructure plan 'dangerously misguided,' Sandvik acquires Allied and more

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This Week's 10 Hottest Construction Stories: World of Concrete is On in June 2021

Here's why the most-read construction stories include a roundup of concrete crack repair options, next steps for Biden's infrastructure plan, Work Truck Show highlights, 5 tips to apply epoxy coating in the cold, how to choose pavement projects to bid

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This Week’s Top 10 Construction Stories: What’s in COVID Relief for Infrastructure?

Why the most-read construction stories include 13 technologies changing construction, associations tee-off on pro-union legislation, celebrating women in construction, 10 prep steps before paving season, 8 states test use-based infrastructure fun

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The Week's Top 10 Construction Stories: New Hybrid Drive for GM Heavy Duty Pickups

Here's why the most-read construction stories include celebrating Women in Construction Week, the ToughBuilt Hawkbill folding knife, economists predict a rocky road to recovery for construction, fluorescence microscopy used in concrete quality assurance

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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

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This Week's 10 Hottest Construction Stories: How Much Do Truck Drivers Make?

Here's why the most-read construction stories of the week include implosion video of the Trump Plaza Hotel, why it’s time for contractors to get BIM, NAPA asphalt quality awards, 3D-printed concrete projects from around the world, and more

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Top 10 Construction Stories This Week: COVID-19 Deepens Construction’s Opioid Problem

Why the week's most-read construction stories include legislation in 25 states to increase transport funding, Biden ties Chinese infrastructure spending to economies’ competitiveness, 2021 Ram 1500 HFE EcoDiesel battles for top pickup efficiency, and more

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The Week's Top 10 Hottest Construction Stories: What GM's All-electric Future Means for Pickup Trucks

Here's why the most-read construction stories of the week include insight on the Art of Selling Your Business, Peugeot merger delivers R&D boost to Ram Trucks, how COVID has changed Home Depot Rental, paver design puts operators first, more

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Top 10 Construction Stories of the Week: How Biden’s Day 1 Orders Hit Construction

Most-read construction stories this week include how Biden's Buy American executive order will impact construction and manufacturing, Expected Biden tax plan to fight COVID-19’s economic battering, tower cranes that could change home construction, more