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Compaction
Unique Compaction Attachment Delivers Wider, Safer Roads in Southeastern Ohio
Road Widener LLC
Ohio Department of Transportation turns to unique paving attachments to efficiently widen roads and improve safety on the state's winding roads.
Road Widen
Equipment
Electric Construction Equipment Minimizes Carbon Footprint on Wildlife Refuge Trail Project
Volvo Construction Equipment
A Volvo electric compact excavator and compact wheel loader are used in a pilot project to help the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service explore ways to minimize its carbon footprint in natural areas.
The L25 Electric compact wheel loader is being used to haul and lay down gravel for a wheelchair-accessible half-mile trail around a pond and to clear brush.
Lifting & Material Handling
Portable Vacuum Lifting System Finds a Place in Stone Manufacturing
Vacuworx
Vacuworx PHD Series lifters demonstrates its ability to vertically maneuver and safely position large porous stone slabs.
Silverdale Quality Stone coupled a Vacuworx PHD vertical lift mounting assembly with a Caterpillar 262D skid steer loader, using the system to maneuver 1,500-lb limestone slabs in the vertical position
Surveying & Layout
Florida Concrete Contractor Forms an Advantage with Robotic Surveying Solution
Topcon Positioning Systems
Universal Forming, Inc. relied heavily on a Topcon robotic total station during the $400 million expansion of the Moffitt Cancer Research Center in Tampa, FL.
UFI is responsible for creating the shell for the structure. In that capacity, surveyors appreciated the speed and ease of use of the Topcon GT-503V robotic total station.
Equipment
Demolition Specialist Gets Results with North America's Largest Demolition Robot
Brokk
The 24,361-lb. Brokk 800S rounds out Frederico Demolition's fleet for tunneling and other specialty applications.
Brokk Frederico 1
Dozers
Choose Used Dozers Wisely
Take steps to ensure a used crawler dozer acquisition doesn’t come with costly surprises.
Undercarriage condition has a major influence on used equipment valuation. With so much at stake, it is advisable to have the undercarriage inspected by a trustworthy product expert.
Trucks & Transportation
What Construction and Trucking Operations Need to Know Most About e-Ticketing
TRUX Inc.
Staying informed about how e-Ticketing can work with existing systems will make the technology transition easier and help to maximize ROI.
Companies can often deploy full-scale technology solutions that cover challenges such as route optimization, digital dispatching and GPS tracking, with eTicketing being integrated into these systems.
Machine Grade Control, GPS, Laser & Other
Topcon announces MC-X Platform and MC-Max Machine Control Solution
Topcon Positioning Systems
MC-Max is a scalable solution for mixed-fleet heavy equipment environments designed to adapt to owners’ machine control and data integration needs as their fleets and workflows expand.
Topcon Positioning Group has announced its MC-Max machine control solution. Based on its MC-X machine control platform, and backed by Sitelink3D — the company’s real-time, cloud-based data management ecosystem — MC-Max is a scalable solution for mixed-fleet heavy equipment environments.
Machine Grade Control, GPS, Laser & Other
How AI Boosts Warfel’s Safety and COVID Protocol Without Extra People or Data
Artificial intelligence from Smartvid.io integrated with Procore recognizes safety risks in progress-monitoring photos and builds a database that confirms COVID compliance and measures the policies that will make the biggest difference in job-site safety
A high-level Warfel Construction dashboard of the Smartvid.io's AI analysis of photos for safety risks rates the safety of the contractor's projects in the table at upper right (project names obscured).
Construction Technology
From Bidding to Progress Monitoring: How Drone Surveys Give Earthworks Teams an Edge
Propeller Aero
Highly accurate data on site conditions that drones easily collect helps balance the estimator and construction manager's challenge to submit a competitive bid that wins the project and manage dirt work that remains profitable.
Propeller Aero
Machine Grade Control, GPS, Laser & Other
John Deere Offers SmartGrade Remote Support for SmartGrade Earthmovers
John Deere
SmartGrade Remote Support is offered on new SmartGrade dozers, motor graders, excavators and compact track loaders.
Jd Smart Grade Remote Large[2]
Machine Grade Control, GPS, Laser & Other
Machine Control Streamlines Earthmoving Operations
Sharpen your competitive edge by utilizing machine control to increase productivity, slash operating costs, reduce labor and eliminate staking.
MacMor Construction was one of the first contractors to take delivery of a Case factory fit dozer earlier this year. The goal with adding machine control was to be more competitive with production on jobs.
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