When Powering Your Construction Site – Think Reliability First
How the right dealer can support your temporary power demands Construction sites involve power-intensive operations with high energy usage. Each piece of electrical equipment has its own power requirement and every construction job has its own unique power demands. From tower…
CentiMark Corporation selects STACK as its new Preconstruction Partner
STACK Construction Technologies, creators of the industry’s leading cloud-based preconstruction platform, announced their partnership with CentiMark to connect business systems and enable easier access to critical data. As the world’s largest commercial roofing contractor, smooth transfer of data across all departments…
Procore Appoints Joy Durling as Chief Data Officer
Procore Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: PCOR), a leading global provider of construction management software, is pleased to announce the appointment of Joy Durling as its first-ever chief data officer. Joy will lead Procore’s data-as-a-product strategy, as well as all information technology, data intelligence,…
Shady contractors costing B.C. $300m a year, says union
With tax deadline day just days away, one B.C. union feels confident more than a few contractors won’t be on the level when it comes to filing their returns this year. Contractors evading taxes and employment fees are costing the province…
Electric Demolition Robots are Making Jobsites Safer
By: CONEXPO-CON/AGG Demolition is difficult, dirty, dangerous work. It is also necessary work. How best to keep workers safe in a demolition environment? Remove them from that environment. When the persons come out, the robots move in. Robotic demolition has been…
Elon Musk’s The Boring Company to take on hyperloop project
Elon Musk said Sunday via Twitter that his tunnel-building-for-urban-transport business The Boring Company will attempt to build a high-speed, and still theoretical, hyperloop in the coming years. In 2013, Musk put out a white paper that outlined the idea of a…
Ambitious social housing project showcases new technologies
Called Vienna House, the project is intended to demonstrate how innovation in design and construction can be combined with advancements in social housing. When finished, it will be a seven-storey, trapezoid-shaped structure with a shared inner courtyard. The project will be…