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PlanGrid Launches Education Program for Schools & Unions to Narrow Technology Skills Gap

PlanGrid Launches Education Program to Narrow Technology Skills Gap

January 8, 2019

Educators now have dedicated access to PlanGrid resources for training students on the leading software to drive construction productivity.

IAPMO Group Launches Newly Designed Website

January 8, 2019

Quick links offer easy access to each of The IAPMO Group’s business units, as well as to e-publications, information on chapters, committees, code answers and analysis, and IAPMO’s field managers.

AGC Survey: 79 Percent of Construction Firms Plan to Expand Payrolls, But Equal Percentage Worry About Finding Workers

January 8, 2019

The percentage of respondents who expect a market segment to expand exceeds the percentage who expect it to contract for all 13 categories of projects included in the survey.

Saniflo USA Appoints Lupe Serrano as Business Development Manager

January 7, 2019

Working with key distributors and contractors, Serrano looks to expand Saniflo sales throughout California, while also targeting Hispanic markets in the southern part of the state.

Milwaukee Tool Extreme Metal Band Saw Blades

January 7, 2019

The design of the new blades provides much longer life in common and extreme materials such as strut, conduit, angle iron, threaded rod, pipe, and even stainless steel and cast iron.

Fujitsu Appoints David Trautman to National Account Sales Manager

January 7, 2019

Trautman is focused on supporting unitary sales with large, national distributors.

Your Business

The Handyman Special

Don’t let frustration keep you from asking the right questions.

January 5, 2019

Sean McCormack

When frustrated on a jobsite, take a step back, breathe and reevaluate the situation.

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Oracle Opens Construction Tech Test Site

New facility plans to drive digital transformation in the construction and engineering markets.

January 5, 2019

Steve Smith

Last August, Oracle Construction and Engineering opened an Innovation Lab in the Chicago suburb of Deerfield designed to accelerate the company’s efforts to help the construction industry explore the latest technologies and drive the type of digital transformation that only sounds futuristic.

Alternative Energy

High-Flow Conditions

Two government projects are moving a lot of water.

January 5, 2019

Max Rohr

“How much water would it take to do that?” This question is the basis of two notable government-sponsored experiments conducted in 2018. Water was the chosen substance to reconstruct the beaches of the Grand Canyon and keep a rocket platform cool.

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Shapiro & Duncan Coordinates Renovations for Innovative Wastewater HVAC System

Municipal waste heat exchanger rejects heat and aids the air-conditioning process whenever cooling is required.

January 5, 2019

Shapiro & Duncan recently implemented renovations that will allow the American Geophysical Union headquarters in Washington D.C. to be the District’s first building to generate more energy than it uses.