Fri.Apr 06, 2018

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5 Reasons You’ll Want to Install the New Rinnai® Sensei™ Tankless Water Heater

Contractor Magazine

Improved installation, serviceability and performance enhancements are all features of Rinnai’s latest product offering. Find out why installing a new tankless water heater benefits you and your customers.

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Ohio planning $2.3B of road and highway projects this year

Construction Dive

State DOT officials said 90% of every dollar the agency invests this year is going toward its infrastructure, which will include nearly 1,000 projects.

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The big crash: and the big fix

Construction Marketing Ideas

On Tuesday, I wrote a posting bragging about how we had successfully overcome a series of technical (and human error, my doing) issues that caused this blog not to work properly, disrupting the daily entries. On Wednesday, I managed to trash things sufficiently while trying repairs that — for some hours — Constructionmarketingideas.com went off […].

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Wisconsin construction company charged with $200M minority business fraud

Construction Dive

Prosecutors allege contractor Sonag and its owner set up at least three businesses with minority and disabled veteran owners at the helm while he controlled their operations.

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Optimize Operational Processes With an Industry-Specific ERP

As the use of Enterprise Resource Planning systems in the construction industry is critical to optimizing operations, it's critical that decision makers conduct a thorough software evaluation to find the one that best aligns to their needs.

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The Family Handyman DIY University Contractor Accounting Basics

Contractor Bookkeeping

Are You Struggling With Your Contractor Accounting? Are You A Handyman, Trade Contractor Or Another Type Of Contractor? Would You Like Learn Construction Accounting Basics From. The Contractors Accountant At A Fraction Of The Cost? The Family Handyman DIY University.

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Cleveland-Cliffs Breaks Ground on $700 Million HBI Plant

Construction Equipment

Cleveland-Cliffs will produce 2.48 million tons of custom hot-briquetted iron (HBI) when its new plant, situated at the Port of Toledo on Lake Erie, is operational in mid-2020. The company is the oldest and largest independent iron ore mining company in the U.S. and its new Toledo facility will be the only producer of customized feedstock for the domestic electric arc furnace steelmakers in the Great Lakes region.

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February Construction Unemployment Rates Down Year-Over-Year in 34 States, Says ABC

Construction Superintendent Magazine

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The February 2018 not seasonally adjusted national construction unemployment rate was 7.8 percent, down 1 percent from February 2017 and the lowest national February rate on record, according to an analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data released by Associated Builders and Contractors. Estimated construction unemployment rates were down in 34 states on a year-over-year basis, unchanged in one state (Arizona) and up in 15 states.

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Epiroc Absorbs Chicago Pneumatic Attachments

Construction Equipment

Chicago Pneumatic hydraulic excavator attachments have joined the Epiroc product lineup. The Epiroc RX breakers, RC compactors, and CG contractor grapples will be supported from Epiroc’s dedicated hydraulic attachments organization. Epiroc was spun off of the Mining and Rock Excavation Technique business area and the Hydraulic Attachment Tools division of Atlas Copco.

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Some information about Floor Screed

Construction Cost Estimating

Floor screed is a type of building material used in construction to make the floors smooth and flat, the screed made with right quantity of cement and sand. Introduction It is a building material that is made from a 1:3 or 1:4.5 ratio of cement with sharp sand and can be applied in both solid-in-situ concrete ground floor slab and onto a formed concrete floor unit.

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The Ultimate Procurement Software Buyer’s Guide

Choosing the right procurement software is a crucial step in ensuring third-party risk management, process governance, and bidding efficiency. With so many procurement solutions to choose from, it can be overwhelming without a frame of reference and a solid starting point. This free buyer’s guide will cover: Benefits of Procurement Software –– Why do you need it?

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Moody's Gives Thumbs Down to O'Hare Expansion

Construction Equipment

The Chicago Sun-Times reports Wall Street rating agency, Moody's Investors Service, labeled Chicago's O'Hare Airport project as “credit negative” on Thursday because it will “increase leverage and airline costs above those of airport peers, weakening O’Hare’s competitive position and airlines’ profitability.

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HVACR at RISK: How Tariffs Would Hurt

Contractor Magazine

The list of Chinese imports includes several AHRI member products, including boilers, compressors, air conditioners, furnaces and more.

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Construction March Jobless Rate Falls but Industry Loses 15,000 Jobs

ENR Construction

Specialty trade contractors lost 16,200 positions, heavy-civil sector down by 3,600, BLS reports.

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EGIA “Cracking the Code” Weekly Show: DESTROYING the Price Objection

Contractor Magazine

Weldon Long continues a series on overcoming, and even preventing, the price objection through product demonstrations.

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Stop Making These Mistakes and Start Scaling Your Specialty Contractor Business

Anything that is built on a poor foundation will soon crumble from the ground up. This is literally the case in the construction stage of projects and it applies just the same during the pre-construction stage. This free eBook is your ultimate guide to scaling your business with customizable software as early as during the bidding stage.

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$97-Million Grade Separation Project Opens in City of Industry

ENR Construction

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PalFleet Renames to Palfinger USA

Construction Equipment

PalFleet Truck Equipment Co., wholly owned by Palfinger, will discontinue the name PalFleet and will continue operations as Palfinger USA, LLC. Following the 2008 acquisition of Omaha Standard LLC, PalFleet formed in 2010 by integrating the Palfinger Group’s Tiffin Loader Crane Co. and Omaha Standard Distribution companies. Today, their various locations offer sales and service support for its present Palfinger product portfolio.

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