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Sustainability
Webinar: Green Building Contracts, Scope and Scheduling
Webinar focuses on how to appropriately incorporate owners’ goals, sustainability standards and budgetary constraints into contract documents
Business
Innovative Design and Construction Methods Implemented During Building of LEED-Certified Library
Costello Construction is leading the building of the Silver Spring library which includes several innovative design and construction features
Costello Construction executes preliminary site work on the Silver Spring Library, which broke ground in early 2013.
Pickup Trucks & Vans
2014 Ford F-150 to Offer Natural-Gas or Propane Power
Ford Motor Company
First half-ton pickup with factory gaseous-fuel prep option makes the 3.7-liter V6 engine ready to be upfit with compressed-natural-gas or liquefied-petroleum-gas fuel system
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Forms
R-Tech BG Insulation
Insulfoam
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Heavy Trucks: Class 7 & 8
MMC Adds 12 Natural-Gas Mixer Trucks
TruStar Energy
Concrete producer brings the first CNG mixer trucks to the U.S. Southeast, installs fueling station in Jackson, MS, plant
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Concrete
NRMCA Brings Sustainability Conference to Latin America
National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (NRMCA)
The Latin American conference is one of four sustainability/technical conferences hosted by NRMCA over the next 10 months with more in the planning stage.
Attachments
Crusher/Screening Bucket Fills the Need for Speed on Windmill Farm
Powered bucket attachment meets the requirement to use native soil on site, and reduces costs in the process
Working on a tight two-week schedule, the crew needed to dig a 10,000-foot-long ditch that was 36 inches wide and had a 54-inch-deep floor.
Sustainability
ASTM International Workshop Will Provide Introduction to Product Category Rules and Environmental Product Declarations
ASTM International
A Product Category Rule and an Environmental Product Declaration are becoming the means to classify individual products and compare products
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Concrete
NRMCA Seeks Abstracts for 2014 Concrete Sustainabililty Conference
National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (NRMCA)
The 2014 International Concrete Sustainability Conference is scheduled for May 12-15 just outside of Boston and is being held in conjunction with the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub Showcase scheduled for May 15, 2014
Other Components
Your Interactive Guide to Tier 4 Aftertreatment
This interactive guide points out the various components required to meet Tier 4 Final, how they work and what's required to maintain them
This interactive guide explains what each component of a Tier 4 system does, along with any maintenance requirements.
Material Processing & Debris Handling
Chip Energy Breaks Ground on New Biomass Recycling and Pelletizing Facility
The facility will produce several types of processed fuel, including wood pellets and blended biomass briquettes.
A large portion of the Chip Energy building was already in place to demonstrate the project's unique construction method of using shipping containers for the primary structure.
Business
Smog-Eating Street Proven to Reduce Air Pollution
Institution of Chemical Engineers
Year-long Netherlands test suggests titanium-oxide-treated pavers nearly halve nitrogen oxide air pollution
Researchers paved a Netherlands street with blocks treated with smog-eating titanium oxide.
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