Jeff Winke - Mon September 12, 2016
BLOG: Just Two Feet Can Make a Big Difference in Safety.
It's a case of bigger not necessarily being better. City planner and author, Jeff Speck, argues in an article appearing in the online CityLab, a magazine for “people who are creating the cities of the future—and those who want to live there,” that if busy traffic lanes in cities were narrowed to 10-feet wide instead of 12 feet, lives will be saved....
Giles Lambertson - Mon August 15, 2016
BLOG: What We Can Do to Protect Highway Construction Workers
Industry statistics show that an average of 120 highway workers are killed each year, more than half of them the victims of speeding vehicles in work zones. There is a solution to these traffic deaths: Close any highway that has a construction crew working on it....
Giles Lambertson - Mon August 01, 2016
BLOG: Contractors, Not Just Lobbyists, Must Push Tax Reform
Industry associations look after their own. This is called lobbying. It is how one industry competes with another, by accumulating clout and wielding it on behalf of members in policy-making negotiations....
Jeff Winke - Mon July 25, 2016
BLOG: Capitalizing on Construction Media Coverage
If you're lucky enough to get a request by someone to write a story about your company or a project your company is involved in, for cripes sake DO IT! No question…no hesitation…jump on it!I work with a number of heavy equipment manufacturers and construction technology firms who will commission me to write a story about a customer-contractor using their equipment on a project....
Megan Wild - Mon July 25, 2016
BLOG: How Consigned Equipment Can Affect Your Fleet's Overall Performance
While it certainly is nice to sport a whole fleet of brand-new construction vehicles and equipment, this simply isn't a viable option for many companies. This is especially true for young or startup businesses, which may be trying to minimize their upfront costs as much as possible....
Jeff Winke - Mon August 22, 2016
BLOG: Bamboo Reinforced Concrete
I've always been fond of bamboo ever since I was a kid and somehow got a bamboo fishing pole. It wasn't all that practical but I liked the concept. It made me feel like a hillbilly or what I thought a hillbilly must be like....
Jeff Winke - Mon August 08, 2016
BLOG: Safety's Three Point Rule
Maybe it's just me but every time I need to climb into a piece of heavy equipment or haul truck I start singing James Brown's “Sex Machine” -- with my modified lyrics. Get upget upget upget on upstay on the sceneget on uplike a construction machine....
Megan Wild - Thu July 14, 2016
BLOG: Is a Drone the Right Choice For Your Company?
Consumer-grade aerial drones, which are quickly growing in popularity, are already being used in a wide variety of industries, sectors and jobs. When used in combination with next-gen digital imaging tools, their usefulness increases exponentially....
Giles Lambertson - Mon July 18, 2016
BLOG: Turbine-Electric Technology Headed to Construction Sites
Industrial design is a wonderful thing, taking something basic like a hammer, for example, and over the years stylishly forging new functions for it, giving us such hammer variations as ballpeen, claw, framing, upholstery, and rubber mallet....
Giles Lambertson - Mon July 04, 2016
BLOG: Texas Takes a Ride on Another Fast-Train Venture
One of my fond memories of years ago is of a train ride through New Mexico on a softly snowing night, with a lone horse standing in a white, tranquil landscape watching the train pass in muted rumble. Travelers on a proposed train in Texas will not enjoy a similar experience: The cars in which they will be seated will be hurtling by horses and everything else at 200 mph....
