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Fleet Maintenance

Maximize Technician Productivity with the Right Truck

Ensure the mechanic's truck has the proper capabilities and equipment to do the service and repair job right.

Your mechanics truck is your on-site service shop in the field, with storage, lubrication equipment and lifting capabilities.

Lehman-Roberts’ Software Upgrade Adds Project Profit Every Week

Highway contractor’s supervisors start reporting project profit weekly and learn the frequent analysis makes it easier to move project profitability from red to black

Lehman-Roberts Company’s project managers, including Nick Koenig, assistant project manager, meet once a week and review project cost accounting data in Viewpoint Vista. By keeping close tabs on costs, the company often turns unprofitable projects into profitable ones.

Machine Grade Control, GPS, Laser & Other

Pop Quiz: Do You Need 3D Grade Control?

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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

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[APP] Document, Manage Site Measurements Taken with Bosch Laser Measures

Bosch Rexroth Corp.

MeasureOn is a multifunctional mobile app that works with Bosch Bluetooth-enabled laser measures to document and manage site measurements and floor plans

Measured values can be transferred directly to pictures.

[APP] Make Traveling to Jobsites Easier with the Follow Mobile App

Follow is an app that creates a navigation system that navigates all following drivers to the leader's location rather than a physical address

Follow is an app that creates a navigation system where point B is someone else's phone (the leader).

Construction Technology

How Connected Vehicles Make Work Zones Safer

The Michigan DOT is partnering with 3M to make the nation’s first connected work zone on I-75

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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.

[APP] Time Doctor Collects, Analyzes Time Tracking Data to Improve Productivity

The Time Doctor app harvests time tracking data on your company's work habits and then provides analytics to show key areas where improvements can be made

Customizable reports show individual time logs, screenshots and more.

Coaching & Consulting

Why Construction 'Value Engineering' is About to Become True to its Name

Contractors need to focus on value engineering not just as a cost cutting measure but as a process to provide additional value to the finished project and the project owner

Contractors need to find the balance between cost cutting and providing 'value' to a project through the 'value engineering' method.

[APP] ShareMyToolbox Replaces Paper-based Tool Tracking

ShareMyToolbox allows construction workers to check tools in and out and transfer tools between employees in the field

Transfer tools to other employees while in the field and record it on ShareMyToolbox.

Construction Safety

Fatality Study Aims to Improve Safety

New report from the AGC analyzes data from a three-year period and provides new recommendations to prevent workplace fatalities and injuries.

The highest number of fatalities occurred around noon (15%) and 52% of all fatalities occurred between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. This finding differs from existing literature. Analysis of fatality data from 1997 to 2000 revealed fatal incident occurrence was dominant around the hours of 9 a.m. and 1 p.m., and declined around noon (Huang and Hinze 2003).

8 Guidelines for Analyzing Schedule Delays to Defend Construction Delay Claims

Using these guidelines, any contractor can begin to evaluate and prepare a potential delay claim as the conditions on project causing the delay occur

Here are eight guidelines that any schedule delay analysis should comply with.

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