Category: Construction News
Miami Offers Numerous Employment Opportunities in Construction

Increased economic activity in downtown Miami has prompted the development of Miami Worldcenter, an area the size of ten city blocks containing new condos, restaurants, shops, hotels and a convention center. The challenge has been filling the numerous construction jobs that offer opportunities for skilled and unskilled workers. Miami’s ABC affiliate, WSVN-TV, recently featured a […]

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Walt Disney World News Captures Sims on the Job

A Sims crawler crane was recently spotted and featured in a post at the WDW News Today website. WDW News Today is an online resource devoted to news and information for fans of Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida and Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. Blogger Chris Green took photos from a dock across […]

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Drones with Heavy Lifting Capabilities being Developed

The popularity of drones has been steadily increasing over the last several years. Applications have been numerous, from high resolution photography to package delivery. Amazon began experimenting with drones in 2013 to deliver orders to their customers, and after going through more than two dozen designs appears to be months away from launching this service […]

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Hard Rock Expansion Features Crawler Crane Muscle

The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida is undergoing a massive expansion with a $1.5 billion price tag. A large, guitar-shaped hotel tower will house 638 luxury rooms and suites, and an adjacent pool tower will contain 167 guest rooms and suites, additional gaming space, 45-table poker room, full service Rock Spa, […]

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Construction Tool? Contractors Among Top Drone Users

FAA: Smaller Contractors Using Construction Drones the Most Original Post: ConstructionEquipmentGuide.com Are drones becoming known as a construction tool? A recent report from Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) shows that the agency is systematically issuing exemptions to applicants so that they can fly drones without being flagged for encroaching on public airspace. It is shown that […]

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Understanding the Importance of Asking "Why?"

As kids, we were told to not ask “Why?” but to just do what we're told. This is the complete opposite when it comes to safety on a job site – knowing why an accident, incident, or near miss occurred. Per the basics of project management, learning from failure – or preferably learning without failure […]

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When One Crane is Not Enough

Construction projects are greatly helped when a crane is present to do heavy lifting on the job site. But what if the size of the project is larger than what one crane can handle? Bring in a second crane, correct? Maybe a third? How about six cranes for one project? Axel Springer is the largest […]

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The Men & Women Behind the Scenes

When we think about construction equipment, a few different things come to mind. What does the piece of equipment do, how well does it perform the task, and who owns it? However, we can be guilty of overlooking a very important piece to the puzzle.   It's not the men and women at the construction […]

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If You Can Control the Clock, You Can Win the Game

I am quite passionate about college football, and so far this year my Yellow jackets (Georgia Tech) have "engineered" an 8-2 record and are currently ranked 22nd in the nation. Not bad for a team that runs a "boring" spread option offense which many say is outdated and doesn't have a chance.   While there […]

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Kobelco Crawlers at Work on Atlanta Toll Road Project

Northwest Express Roadbuilders, a joint venture of Archer Western Contractors of Atlanta (subsidiary of The Walsh Group), Hubbard Construction Company of Winter Park, Florida, and Parsons Transportation Group, Pasadena, California, was recently commissioned to construct the $840 million Northwest Corridor toll-lanes project in Georgia. The project includes construction of new toll lanes on 30 miles […]

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