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Business Services

How to Effectively Manage Construction Employees to Drive Profitable Results

The Contractor's Business Coach

Owners need to maintain a balance between driving for results and helping their people succeed and grow

Owners need to maintain a balance between driving for results and helping their people succeed and grow. To do so requires them to help their people enjoy their jobs, develop their careers, and be effective in their current assignments.

ForConstructionPros App of the Week: Safety Meeting App

Record and track OSHA required safety meetings, accidents, incidents, near-misses, employee attendance and more with the Safety Meeting App

The Safety Meeting App provides instantaneous documentation of safety meetings and then stores the records in the cloud.

ForConstructionPros App of the Week: Equipment360 Mobile Mechanic

Heavy Construction Systems Specialists, Inc. (HCSS)

Maintenance management solution tailored for the construction industry connects your mechanics and technicians on the jobsite to the shop

Mechanics and technicians can work offline in remote locations and use tablets to schedule jobs, check equipment status, work orders, inventories, time cards and more.

How to Keep Construction Workers Cool

Construction workers need to protect themselves from extreme heat during the dog days of summer

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Construction Technology

How a Drone Can Make Your Asphalt Plant More Profitable

Legal drone operation can help asphalt plants with stockpile management, maintenance, marketing and saving money

Using drones to monitor and manage stockpiles, Lousiville Paving saves up to $1,000 per quarter per plant location.

ENR: Top 400 Contractors Generate Record High Revenues in 2015

In 2015, ENR's top 400 contractors generated $344 billion, a 3.7% increase from 2014 and setting a record high above 2008's $338 billion

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Construction Safety

39% of Highway Construction Contractors Reported Crashes at Worksites Over Past Year

Nationwide 18% of highway construction companies had employees injured by a vehicle crash and 8% had workers killed by a crash

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Financing, Insurance & Leasing

How to Avoid Excess Risks When Filing a Construction Lien or Bond Claim

Risks associated with construction liens and bond claims can be complex, but there are best practices to minimize risks when securing payment

Risks associated with construction liens and bond claims can be complex, but there are best practices to minimize risks when securing payment.

ForConstructionPros App of the Week: Site2Site

Site2Site is a complete solution that allows small and medium sized construction companies to automate day-to-day office work from estimates through completion of a job

While on the job, field workers can use Site2Site to instantly view pertinent job information such as job notes, important contractors and the subcontractors involved.

Report: Drones Could Replace $45B in Infrastructure Services

A report released by PwC estimates that commercial applications for drones will replace a total of $127 billion worth of services and labor “in the very near future.”

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Concrete Equipment & Products

Ground Penetrating Radar Can Save Money and Avoid Hazardous Conditions on Jobsites

Geophysical Survey Systems (GSSI)

A few firms that provide concrete scanning services weigh in on the critical importance of locating embedded and or buried obstructions by scanning for these features using ground penetrating radar (GPR).

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Equipment Monitoring & Logistics

Sunset on 2G Network Gives The Helm Group a Second Shot at Telematics

Northern-IL contractor switched telematics vendors to collect many machines’ data streams into one software application rather than replace nearly obsolete 2G devices

This EAMS overview screen shows individual Helm Group machines on location as red dots. Arrows in the dots show direction of travel, and a square in the dot shows the machine is stopped. Circles with numbers inside represent clusters of assets, with the number representing how many units are on site. As you zoom in the cluster spreads apart to reveal the individual assets.

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