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Business
Building a LEED Silver Certified and Earthquake Resistant Airport Transportation Center
The 520,000-square-foot Bob Hope Airport Regional Intermodal Transportation Center is being built to meet LEED Silver certification standards as well as using above ground base isolators to resist a maximum credible earthquake
Rendering of the 520,000-square-foot Bob Hope Airport Regional Intermodal Transportation Center structure on the left, the customer service building and a portion of the 1,100 foot-long moving elevated walkway on the right.
Seal Coating
Slurry Sealing 3.8 Million Square Yards
The City of Las Vegas operates on a pavement preservation plan slurry sealing both business and residential streets every 5-7 years. This project was completed in two phases by American Pavement Preservation's 14-person crew.
Business
Submit a Proposal for the 2013 AGC Contractors Environmental Conference
Associated General Contractors of America (AGC)
Presentation proposals should cover environmental topics affecting the construction industry
Sustainability
Sustainability: Have You Ever Wondered How You Compare With Other Contractors?
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Business
Ultrafoam GX2 Warm Mix Asphalt System
Gencor Industries Inc.
No need for powered mixing even with AC and water at widely different flows
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Sustainability
Sustainability: How Do You Compare With Other Contractors?
Tool helps evaluate your organization's sustainability construction practices and identify opportunities to improve efficiency and profit
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Excavators
Cat 336E H Hybrid Excavator
Caterpillar - Cat
The hydraulic hybrid system controls mostly common parts to improve material moved per gallon of fuel up to 50% over the standard 336D
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Excavators
Caterpillar's New Hydraulic Hybrid Excavator is 50%-Efficiency 'Next Generation'
Caterpillar - Cat
Built with mostly common hydraulic components, Cat says buyers will earn back the hybrid's price premium in 2,000 hours of operation
Schlouch Inc. negotiated the purchase of a Caterpillar 336E Hybrid (such as shown) from Giles & Ransome with a performance guarantee based on fuel economy. It halved fuel costs for pipelaying, and Schlouch rented two more with purchase options.
Concrete
ACI Offers Live Webinars from 2012 Fall Convention on BIM, Sustainability and Technology
American Concrete Institute (ACI)
Viewers can earn PDHs for participating in the online sessions
Seal Coating
How to Sweep a Porous Asphalt Pavement Construction Site
Additional steps were required by Algonquin Sweeping & Striping for proper sweeping
Algonquin Sweeping & Striping of Walpole,MA, completed construction site sweeping of porous pavement at Wellesley High School. Operators ran the Tymco 210 unit at a fairly low RPM increasing it to about 2200 RPM with each pass.
Construction Technology
New Research Shows Dramatic Increase in Use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in North America
Study shows percentage of companies using BIM jumped from 17% in 2007 to 71% in 2012
Underground Equipment
Geothermal Series GL300 Drill
Fecon LLC
10,000-lb. drill can bore 4-in. holes to 300-ft. depths
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