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The Safety and Risk Management Council of the ASCC Offers Three New Safety Bulletins

American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC)

Safety Bulletins are brief discussions of the most severe safety issues facing concrete contractors and are published periodically.

Volvo Embarks on Tour to Bridge the Skilled Labor Gap

Volvo will tour throughout North America educating students interested in the skilled trades through the remainder of 2016 until CONEXPO in 2017

Volvo Construction Equipment and its golden-painted articulated hauler will continue to travel throughout North America in 2016. The hauler will end its journey at global construction industry trade show CONEXPO-CON/AGG in March of 2017, where it will be auctioned off, with proceeds benefitting training programs that encourage new generations to enter the construction industry, including SkillsUSA and Skills Canada.

Personnel Management

Are You Making Too Many Decisions for Your Construction Employees?

Is your management style holding your employees back from accepting responsibility and being accountable?

Are you the problem as you attempt to make every decision, do too much yourself, and control everything and everybody. Take a hard look at your management style. Are you holding your people back from accepting responsibility and being accountable?

ForConstructionPros App of the Week: Revizto Viewer

Revizto Viewer is a real-time visual collaboration tool that turns BIM and CAD models into a navigable 3D environment

Click on an object to get detailed information.

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How to Build Great Project Partners Faster

Five tips to make a project team function more effectively resulting in a more professional and profitable project

For the time and money involved, conducting a Partnering Session, and the other four tips addressed in this article are key components to experiencing a better, more safe and profitable project for all involved.

Construction Safety

Risk Management: Avoiding Safety Sinkholes

Three steps to protect workers and those around the work area - and limit legal fall-out - with a safety first construction project mindset

One construction risk consultant shared that in most of the cases that he’s investigated the common thread appears to be lack of clear and strong leadership. Did you get that? That’s the senior leaders of our companies not paying enough attention to what our crews are doing.

Concrete Equipment & Products

New Website Helps Architects Specify Moisture Testing for Concrete

Architects and engineers value concrete’s durability, strength, and versatility for use in a variety of applications in the construction industry. Indeed, concrete is the most widely used material in the world.

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Can Equipment Purchase Really Beat the Cost to Rent?

Look beyond current rental rates when deciding whether to buy equipment.

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Contractors Beware: New Rules and Regulations Coming Soon

ForConstructionPros App of the Week: PENTA Time-Equipment-Production Mobile App

Penta Technologies Inc.

Optimizes field reporting of employee time, equipment usage, production and reimbursements with the PENTA TEP mobile app

Create activity logs in PENTA TEP to capture crew activities from the worksite.

Construction Safety

A Risk Management Conversation with a Risk Management Expert

Ten tips to help construction contractors of all specialties improve their risk management

Risk management is really about more than just safety. If you're reading this article and recognizing these risks for the first time, don’t leave your reading with anything less than a commitment to make sure you are cleaning up the risk that your company might be experiencing.

Federal Court Rules Against DOL in CityCenterDC Prevailing Wage Case

US Court of Appeals Rules upholds lower court's ruling workers on CityCenterDc were not entitled to prevailing wages because the project was not a "public work"

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