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Rental
Surviving the Skills Gap: Three Ways to Acquire a Qualified Team
The Association of Equipment Management Professionals (AEMP) has identified the shortage of skilled labor as a critical issue for equipment fleets in every industry since 2008, and this shortage extends worldwide.
Sharon Anderson Young manages AEMP’s professional certification program for equipment fleet managers and suppliers. To learn more about earning your Certified Equipment Manager (CEM) or Certified Equipment Support Professional (CESP) designation, please contact her at Sharon@aemp.org. For more information about AEMP and our EquipmentShift to Lower Costs and Increased Productivity conference in Memphis, TN, Oct. 26-27, 2016, please visit the AEMP website: http://www.aemp.org/ or call (970) 384-0510.
Apps
ForConstructionPros App of the Week: Construction Project Overhead Sizing Calculator
Construction contractors can create highly accurate and current job and project sizing information with this app to keep bids accurate and increase the chance to win good projects
The Stevens Construction Project Overhead Sizing Calculator uses current banking data of the behavior of costs in construction contracting to help contractors size overhead.
Equipment Monitoring & Logistics
Verizon Acquires Telogis to Enhance Connected-Vehicle Business
Acquisition should expand the Verizon Telematics subsidiary’s distribution and add software-as-a-service (SaaS) technology in the connected-vehicle and mobile-enterprise-management sectors
Apps
ForConstructionPros App of the Week: Autodesk BIM 360 Docs
Autodesk
The cloud-based app keeps the entire construction project team working from the correct, most up-to-date versions of documents, plans and models
The cloud-based app keeps the entire construction project team working from the correct, most up-to-date versions of documents, plans and models.
Construction Technology
Poor Integration Stifles Mobile Technology in Construction
Mobile technology offers probably the most-accessible construction profitability boost available today; here’s why contractors are slow to use mobile apps
About 20% of respondents to the 2015 Construction Technology Survey. use six mobile apps daily. Forty-two percent use three or four apps every day. 'But only 2 or 3 of these apps integrate with software,” says James Benham, CEO of construction-technology company JBKnowledge Inc. “People and companies still depend too much on spreadsheets.”
Fleet Maintenance
Electronic Driver-Logging Mandate Promises Profitable Trucking
Electronic driver logs required by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Admin. are proven to halve hours of service violations and cut recordable accidents by 12%
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Business Services
How to Turn 5 Truths of Construction Progress into More Profitable Business
GB Financial Services, LLC
Construction contractors both large and small need to have a plan in place to implement construction technologies, use them to maximize jobsite efficiency and stay competitive
Project Management
[VIDEO]How Clark Construction Speeds Up RFIs and Submittals with Revu
Bluebeam Inc.
4-min. video shows how Bluebeam Revu enabled Shalom Baranes Architects and Clark Construction to accelerate submittals and RFIs and easily track visual inspections on CityCenterDC construction
[VIDEO]How Clark Construction Speeds Up RFIs and Submittals with Revu
Business Services
Why Specialization May Be More Profitable for Construction Companies
Construction Business Coaching
Perceived experts are the first called when a customer needs a "pro" to complete a tough or special project
The only way to win profitable work today is to differentiate yourself from your competition. Becoming a known expert in something will accomplish this for your company.
Paving
How to Overcome the Hiring Challenges of Millennial Workers
As a part of its focus on labor series, NPE 2017 will have a special emphasis on employees - specifically finding, hiring, training, retaining and getting millennials to work together
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Equipment
Autodesk and Trimble Sign Agreement to Increase Interoperability
Trimble Inc.
Tighter integration enables design and construction pros to share models, project files and other data between select Autodesk and Trimble solutions in the office and the field
Construction Technology
Trimble and AECOM Advance Mixed Reality for Construction with Microsoft Hololens
Trimble and Aecom partner on application of a virtual-reality headset that allows users to walk through holograms of engineering models prior to construction
The Microsoft HoloLens 'mixed-reality' technology for engineering and construction allows users to interact with holograms as if they actually existed.
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