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Lifting & Material Handling

Portable Vacuum Lifting System Finds a Place in Stone Manufacturing

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.

Demolition Specialist Gets Results with North America's Largest Demolition Robot

The 24,361-lb. Brokk 800S rounds out Frederico Demolition's fleet for tunneling and other specialty applications.

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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.

What Construction and Trucking Operations Need to Know Most About e-Ticketing

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

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.

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Machine Grade Control, GPS, Laser & Other

John Deere Offers SmartGrade Remote Support for SmartGrade Earthmovers

SmartGrade Remote Support is offered on new SmartGrade dozers, motor graders, excavators and compact track loaders.

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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.

Project Management

Benefits of Integrating Digital Check-in with Construction Project Management Software

Safe Site Check In LLC

Since the daily log is the pulse on a construction project, it makes sense to streamline and automate the process with digital check-in.

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Trucks & Accessories

How to Choose Pickup Truck Axle Gear Ratios to Improve Performance

Optional axle ratios can tailor pickup truck power and efficiency to suit your needs as long as the gearing keeps the engine in its torque sweet spot.

Every engine includes a sweet spot in its power curve between peak power and peak torque. You want the transmission gearing and axle gear ratio to stay in this sweet spot while hauling the payload at the desired speed.

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