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How to Be a Leader Your Construction Workers Want to Follow

Construction Business Coaching

It’s the leader’s job to discover what makes each person tick, do their best and produce outstanding results for their construction company

People want to follow a leader who has a passionate vision, specific targets and goals, excellent communication skills, cares about them, and lets others be involved in making decisions and taking responsibility to get things done.

Labor & Workforce Development

Cast a Wider Net: 8 Tips for Finding Top Talent

Caterpillar - Cat

Be the company that’s known for growing and developing the skills of their employees

Today’s on-board technology solutions -- including Grade, Payload, Compact, Link and Detect -- mobile apps, and even an active social media presence can bring a new generation of skilled workers to your door.

Four Points to Ponder Before Rushing Into Hurricane Rebuilding

GB Financial Services, LLC

Ask these four questions before you commit to rebuilding efforts in the wake of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.

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21st Century Marketing: Rely on Social Media

World Sweeping Association

Social media marketing is easy and available to all

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Simple Sales Strategies to Win Construction Work

Construction Business Coaching

Implementing these few strategies could help contractors create a winning sales system that beats the competition on a regular basis

The key to winning more work than your competitor is to be more aggressive, make more calls, ask for the order and persistently follow-up.

Project Management

Construction Technology: It’s an Investment, Not a Cost

Caterpillar - Cat

How do you count the value of costs, and benefits, of implementing new construction technology?

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Assistance Technology: Who Needs It?

Caterpillar - Cat

Technology self-contained on dozers and excavators control blade angle and bucket cutting edge, helping even experienced operators hit target grade about 45% faster

Cat Grade With Assist On Hex C10686764

Machine Grade Control, GPS, Laser & Other

Pop Quiz: Do You Need 3D Grade Control?

Caterpillar - Cat

If you answer 'true' to most of the questions in this quiz, a two-dimensional grade-control system might make your earthmoving equipment more profitable than an investment in 3D grade automation

Cat Slope Assist

Top Tips for Extending the Life of Your Scraper Blades

National Flooring Equipment

A floor scraper with blunt blades is almost as disappointing as a puzzle missing its final piece. Here, Dave Bigham, director of national accounts at National Flooring Equipment, explains how contractors can extend the life of their floor scraper blades.

When a scraper blade loses its sharpness, floor removal time can double. A blunt blade is more likely to glide along the top of the floor, rather than pulling it up. This means workers have to take several runs at a length of flooring in order to remove it all.

How Contractors Can Improve Their Bid-Hit Win Ratio

Construction Business Coaching

To be successful, first you must know and track your win ratio by job and customer type, and then look for ways to improve it

The best strategy to improve your Bid-Hit Win Ratio is to start tracking job types, customers, job sizes and project locations you bid and the competition you bid against.

Lifting Equipment

New North American Access Equipment Standards at a Glance: The Core Design Changes

New North American Access Equipment Standards – put forth by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and The CSA Group in Canada - will result in many changes to machine design when they're finalized later this year.

Ian McGregor currently serves as director of product safety at Skyjack, overseeing all product safety and product safety training activities. He's an active member of the SAIA/ANSI A92.20, A92.22 and A92.24 sub-committees, CSA B354 committee, and has also been involved with ISO TC214 WG1, SCC Mirror Committee to SMC/ISO/TC 214, ANSI/ITSDF B56.6, as well as serving on the IPAF Manufacturer’s Technical Committee, AEM Mobile Elevating Work Platforms Committee (MEWPC), and IPAF North American Regional Council.

Approach Form Camber Specifications with Caution

American Society of Concrete Contractors (ASCC)

Cast-in-place reinforced concrete structural members deflect under load. Whatever the cause of the problem, engineers have sometimes tried to control deflection effects by requiring cambered form soffits.

Ideally, a cambered cast-in-place slab deflects just enough to take out the camber and result in a uniform-thickness slab with the surface at the design elevation. That rarely happens.

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