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ASCE Gives Texas Infrastructure a Barely Passing Grade

The 2021 Texas Infrastructure Report Card was unveiled this week, indicating the state improved slightly since the 2017 Report Card with the grade of C

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Innovative Thick-Lift Asphalt Design Facilitated by Diamond Grinding

Advancing Organization Excellence (AOE)

With a prevalence of potholes in the existing asphalt, SC 544 required significant rehabilitation and a non-traditional mill & fill application helped revive the severely deteriorated highway

Diamond grinding achieves rideability on SC 544.

Top 10 Road Building Stories of 2020

COVID, infrastructure funding and the election dominated the news this year. Take a look at the top stories that held our readers attention in 2020.

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Fleet Maintenance

Bendix Tech Tips Series Shares the ABCs of Winter Prep

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Bendix Tech Tips series provides information on proper upkeep for air, brakes and control system components for safe vehicle operation.

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Construction News

12 Days of Construction Christmas 2020 Gift Guide - Body Heat Monitoring System

Keep construction workers safe in the high temperatures of summer with this PPE system that monitors core body temperature.

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Weather Protection

Proof of Concept Lays Groundwork for Use of Technology in Road Safety and Maintenance

Tactile Mobility, the City of Detroit and a major Detroit-based automaker conduct proof of concept to demonstrate the value of tactile data in improving road safety and maintenance.

Tactile Mobility’s user interface demonstrating the state of the roads in a defined polygon, comparing month to month and highlighting the changes.

Personal Protection Equipment

5 Tips for Choosing the Best Construction Gloves

Finding the right glove for the job is as important as matching any other tool of the trade to the task at hand.

Professional-grade work gloves make the job more comfortable and protect your hands to keep you safer on the jobsite.

Tips for Pouring Concrete Foundations in Cold Weather

Concrete Foundations Association (CFA)

The Concrete Foundations Association explains how commonly and effectively residential concrete foundations are constructed during the winter.

The Case for Concrete Homes

The challenge is to build homes that can remain intact in any severe weather event, be more energy efficient, be reasonably priced, and be reoccupied shortly after a disaster so that life can go on with minimal disruption.

As extreme weather events become stronger and more frequent, the method for building homes must change too. Building structures must remain intact to provide safety for inhabitants and return to normal life shortly afterwards. Concrete construction can provide this.

How to Clear Snow from Sidewalks

Consider these options -- utility task vehicles, wheeled shovels, stand-on plows and even shovels -- for removing snow from sidewalks.

Ventrac 4500 removing snow with a power broom.

Heavy Trucks: Class 7 & 8

Western Star Builds Next-generation Vocational Truck

The 49X was designed from the ground up to meet the most demanding vocational applications.

The Western Star 49X features a stronger, lighter chassis that is equipped with the company’s new X-series cab. It enables a total weight savings of over 350 lbs. in like-for-like spec’ing versus the current Western Star 4900.

Fairchild Equipment Talks All Things Rental Safety

Fairchild Equipment

Fairchild Equipment Corporate Safety Manager Marty Schumacher sits down with Rental to talk top safety considerations for business owners, rental safety in winter, and more.

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