New York officials propose using drones to inspect buildings
New York City officials are pushing to legalise the use of drones for facade inspections after an architect was reportedly killed by falling debris from a building in the city. Brooklyn Borough president Eric Adams announced the proposal on 22 December 2019, just days after…
Learn About Concrete Maturity at the Canadian Concrete Expo
Learn how concrete temperature and maturity monitoring can help save you millions of dollars and countless hours of construction time at the Canadian Concrete Expo. COMMAND Center is exhibiting at the Canadian Concrete Expo in Toronto, Ontario. The show…
What more can be done to attract women into Construction?
After significant improvement, numbers of women entering construction have started to stagnate. What are the reasons for this and what can we do to improve? Getting more women into construction has been a long-term ambition for the construction industry. Even…
Reduce Your Future Cost; Offer Your Jobsite for PDA Development
ACA has received funding from the Workers Compensation Board to coordinate the development of Physical demands Analysis (PDAs) for trades occupations involved in construction. PDA is a breakdown of every task performed for each position, the time spent on each…
Homework pays big dividends for Lake Pleasant Recycling and Demolition
Lake Pleasant Recycling and Demolition (LPRD), located in Michigan’s beautiful Irish Hills, 2.5 hours southwest of Detroit seems an unlikely location for a flourishing scrap operation. This is a rural area most notably home to Michigan International Speedway (MIS) and Hillsdale…
Five planet-saving building ideas we need to nail down in 2020
After years of inaction on climate change, the decade ahead has become the bracket in which humanity gets one last opportunity to at least contain the warming crisis. While mitigation efforts targeting transportation, industry and the energy sector remain mired…
How do you build an island in Toronto?
David Kusturin stands at the top of a scaffold five metres above the ground just south of Commissioners Street in Toronto’s Port Lands and surveys the busy construction scene before him. Crews operate massive cranes, augers and concrete pump trucks…