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Contractors Are Renting Rather Than Buying More Equipment.

ENR Construction

The increased competition has narrowed already slim bidding margins, forcing contractors to eke out a financial edge wherever possible. Equipment rentals allow contractors to shift downtime risk while trimming expenses, including licensing, insurance, taxes and debt, among others. rental business grew an estimated 18.6%

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Builder of the Year Ivory Homes' Innovation Agenda

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If those trends continued, Clark reckoned housing affordability in the Salt Lake metro area would follow the same path as California’s Silicon Valley, potentially creating an estimated shortage of 50,845 housing units in the Salt Lake market by 2044, according to a 2018 study by the University of Utah’s Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute. “We