[VIDEO] Volvo Bringing Electric Drive Trains to Compact Excavators, Loaders

Volvo has committed to produce and sell electro mobility by 2020 in its compact excavator line from EC15 to EC27 and compact wheel loaders the L20 to L27

January 22, 2019

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Top 10 Construction Stories This Week: Husqvarna Expects Battery Cut-Off Saw Match Gasoline Power

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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US Housing Starts Bounce Back, But the Housing Shortage Continues to Grow

May construction growth counteracts starts rates that have drifted down from early-year highs, but detailed annual analysis of housing data shows frenzied pandemic home building disregarding first-time-buyer and low-income housing needs

NEW ROUGH TERRAIN LINE

NEW ROUGH TERRAIN LINE

The new line of JLG Rough Terrain Scissors has an answer for every task. When we say upgrade, we mean business – yours.

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What Will the Future of Asphalt Production Look Like?

Industry experts provide insight behind what the asphalt plant of tomorrow may look like

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Robotic-Based Solutions Enhance Curb and Gutter Paving Performance

Technology assists curb and gutter construction, allowing the process to move along more efficiently and with better results.

Automation Evolves on the Construction Site

Various equipment manufacturers and industry experts talk about their efforts to advance evolution of automation in construction.

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Soil Connect Adds eRegulatory Module to Digital Marketplace

Expanding digital marketplace introduces a regulatory module that eliminates paper tickets and automatically captures and saves essential truck, load and route data for regulatory bodies.

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LafargeHolcim Turns to Zello for Push-to-talk and Dispatch Solution

Learn why LafargeHolcim, one of the world’s largest building materials suppliers, chose to partner with Zello for its push-to-talk and dispatch solution. Spoiler alert: the answers are safety and efficiency.

TennaTALKS with ForConstructionPros

Tenna talks with ForConstructionPros and industry insiders in this TennaTALK podcast mini-series to inform the construction industry about business systems and tech trends built for construction companies owning and operating an equipment fleet.

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Skyward Integration with Pix4D Provides Ability to Turn Drone Data into 2D Maps and 3D Models

Customers can now create, view, measure and export 2D orthomosaic maps and 3D photogrammetric models right from Skyward’s web app.

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Verizon Connect Offers Discreet Asset Tracker for Reveal Customers

Sleek, discreet devices with replaceable, longer-life batteries are easy to conceal, self-install and self-manage.

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Husqvarna's New K1 Cut-Off Saw Expected to Match Gas-Powered Performance

The new-generation PACE battery system is said to deliver heavy-duty power, and X-Halt brake stops the blade quickly for safe operation

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Coretex Showcases CoreHub Solution at World of Concrete

Delivering the construction industry’s first “truck area network” IoT platform to provide insights from where concrete is produced to where it is placed.

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The CoreHub In-Vehicle IoT Platform

Comprehensive verification reports allow suppliers to prove to contractors that their concrete was delivered on time and according to specification.

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Komatsu Smart Construction Dashboard Provides Near Real-time Visual Jobsite Status

Dashboard enables progress tracking, quantity calculations and accurate 3D visualization for actual site conditions.

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InEight, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Launch Construction 365

Construction 365 offers a complete view of construction projects by unifying data from the back office to the jobsite and across the project lifecycle.

Using Data to Improve Work Zone Safety

Connected vehicle technology can help project planners better manage these dangerous jobs

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The Importance of Innovation for Construction Contractors

Being willing to try new technologies and processes will keep you ahead of your competition as work starts to pick up

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3D Design Data Can Be Programmed Directly into Komatsu's New D39i-24 Dozer

Integrated grade control enables automatic dozing, and proactive dozing control measures terrain the dozer crosses to plan the next pass so even less experienced operators can automatically cut/strip from existing terrain

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Zello Launches Dispatch Hub for Safer Driver-Dispatch Communications

Dispatch Hub is a new solution that modernizes dispatcher-driver communications with push-to-talk technology, dispatcher workload sharing, call queuing, location tracking and message replay.

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Sysdyne Releases Concrete Cloud Batch Control System at World of Concrete

Sysdyne Technologies has launched the world’s first cloud-native concrete batch control system, Pioneer Cloud Batch.

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Concrete Monitoring, Software Companies Partner on Infrastructure Planning

Soracom and EXACT Technology are working together to ensure concrete used to build highways, bridges, dams, buildings and other large infrastructure projects cures properly and is built to last.

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Pioneer Cloud Batch

Plant managers, IT support staff, quality control managers, and regional executives can access controls, monitor cycles, make mix design changes as needed, and address loading issues without interfering with the actual concrete loading cycle.

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FleetUp and Alert Rental Partner to Help Rental Companies

FleetUp integrates into Alert’s software to automate the most important parts of the delivery process, giving customers real-time shipment GPS locations and ETAs.

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On-demand Platform Matches Contractor with EHS Consultant in Just Three Days

NPL Construction used YellowBird to fill a last-minute on-site safety manager position, enabling its project to meet requirements and stay on track.

NEW ROUGH TERRAIN LINE

NEW ROUGH TERRAIN LINE

The new line of JLG Rough Terrain Scissors has an answer for every task. When we say upgrade, we mean business – yours.