Profit Matters: Page 91

Safety Equipment - Other
Alamo Concrete Adopts SmartDrive to Improve Fleet Safety
Video-based vehicle safety and performance platform’s fast, rich data convinced company that it could make drivers safer and more productive
Smart Drive
Profit Matters
Construction Materials Prices Surge in April 2018
Associated Builders and Contractors Inc. (ABC)
Prices for inputs to construction materials expanded 1.3% in April, the largest month-over-month increase in almost three years
Construction material prices increased in April, representing the largest month-over-month increase in almost three years and the largest year-over-year increase since October 2011.
Profit Matters
Using Continuous Full Coverage Asphalt Testing Ensures Pavement Quality
Alaska DOT system detects defects before they lead to premature failures
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Financing, Insurance & Leasing
3 Contract Clauses That Make Getting Paid More Difficult
Contingent payment clauses, no-lien clauses and lien subordination clauses can cause problems when it's time to get paid for your construction work
Payment Due
Apps
[APP] Share Your Virtual Notebook with Team Members Using Taskade
The Taskade app allows for real-time collaboration among teams and projects
Taskade Organize
Machine Grade Control, GPS, Laser & Other
Ground-Penetrating Radar Maps to be Viewed in Virtual Reality on Site
New technology that shows users on a construction site the 3D map of what ground-penetrating radar found underground could slash permitting time from months to hours
UVM post-doctoral student Dylan Burns demonstrates how the cognitive ground penetrating radar apparatus could be wheeled over an area to scan and map underground infrastructure. The GPR unit, housed in the box near the ground, can peer six to 12 feet down.
Machine Grade Control, GPS, Laser & Other
[VIDEO] Fastbrick 30-Meter Robot Arm Builds a Brick House in a Day
Robotic bricklayer in which Caterpillar has invested in follows BIM models to lay brick autonomously
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Machine Grade Control, GPS, Laser & Other
How Automation and Robotics Should Inspire Rethinking Construction Jobs
Construction’s skills gap is spurring a renaissance in robots that can fill the labor demand if contractors can supply the right support skills
Since 2013, talent shortages across the U.S. engineering and construction industry have worsened, with a record 89% of participants reporting talent shortages in the 2017 FMI study.
Financing, Insurance & Leasing
Report: Many Contractors Still Use Manual Data Collection Despite Shortcomings
Survey results find manual data collection on jobsites increases time needed to make decisions, hurts work quality and leaves firms facing unnecessary costs
Construction Manual Processes
Training & Education
Real Future for Virtual Reality in Aerial-Lift Safety
Virtual reality promises to play a prominent role in the movement toward getting appropriate training to everyone who needs it. You might even offer it at your rental business someday in the not too distant future...
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Machine Grade Control, GPS, Laser & Other
Coming To a Site Near You? VR Cuts the Cord
Oculus Go is the vanguard of wireless virtual-reality devices that may one day bring game-changing immersive information to construction sites
Oculus Go
Financing, Insurance & Leasing
ConstructConnect Forecasts 6.1% Drop in 2018 Nonresidential Building
Disappointing activity in the first quarter reduced ConstructConnect's Summer 2018 Forecast for total construction starts growth this year to 0.4%
ConstructConnect's forecast of total construction starts for full-year 2018 versus 2017 was lowered to +0.4% in its summer report.
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