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Project Uptime
Project Uptime
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Construction's Fatal Four: Avoid These Deadly Jobsite Accidents With Proper Safety Training
January 30, 2017
Learn the four most common causes of fatal injuries on construction sites, and how to avoid them. Each day in the United States, an average of two construction workers die and...
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10 U.S. Cities with the Biggest Infrastructure Budgets for 2017
January 30, 2017
Future infrastructure spending is anyone’ s guess — if Donald Trump’s proposed $1 trillion infrastructure investment plan comes to fruition, cranes could be dotting the skylines...
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Project Security: How to Keep Your Site Safe around the Clock
January 30, 2017
Construction jobsite theft totals some $1 billion annually, according to National Equipment Register. And that doesn’t include costs of business interruption, such as project delay...
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Recruiting for Millennials in Construction: What You Need to Know
January 30, 2017
Buildings are going up despite the shortage of skilled labor in the construction industry. But the shortage is critical enough that it’s slowing down some projects, especially in...
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5 Building Blocks of Safer Construction Sites
January 30, 2017
The key to a safer workplace isn't just in the tracking and reporting of accidents. You've got to start from the ground up, building a company-wide culture of safety that’s rooted...
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Construction Spending Continued its 2016 Climb
January 29, 2017
U.S. construction spending has been more or less on the rise (with a few dips along the way) for years. And while December data isn’t yet available, it looks like 2016 was a good...
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Military Skills Translator: Find a Job Based on Your Service Experience
January 29, 2017
The one-million-plus service members projected to leave the military between now and 2016 could go a long way toward filling the shortage of qualified workers in the construction...
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Forklift to Corner Office: 4 Construction CEOs Who Started from the Bottom
January 28, 2017
Not every CEO has a master's degree in business, or made it to the top through family connections. As these four construction company head honchos prove, working your way to the...
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Augmented and Virtual Reality: What They Mean for Safety and Training
January 27, 2017
The virtues of virtual reality have been touted for more than 20 years, to the point that one is tempted to paraphrase Charles De Gaulle and suggest that VR is “the technology of...
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Renting vs. Buying Construction Equipment: A Growing Trend
January 10, 2017
Tight lending conditions and lulls in development activity have led to contractors tightening their belts over recent years, and for many firms, that means renting construction...