Cigarette butt Much like the recycled plastic additive mentioned above, placing cigarette butts encased with paraffin wax solves two problems at once, it reduces landfill waste while also improving upon asphalt’s design, according to a team of researchers in...
surveillance camera Video feeds on a construction site are not only great for timelapse videos, they can potentially help stop intruders who enter your site.According to WISC-TV in Madison, Wisconsin, a construction site superintendent was watching a live video feed...
If you’re looking to start a career in the construction industry, being hired as a construction laborer is a typical entry level position. Below you’ll find a graph and a list of the average hourly wage for construction laborers in all 50 states, plus the District of...
photo courtesy of the CIty of Thorton, Colorado Construction crews all over the world unearth some pretty cool or very weird items, but sometimes crews find some extremely significant historical artifacts, as well. Last week, a contractor in Colorado made an extremely...
In June, we shared that OSHA was planning to extend the deadline for crane operator certification requirements until November 10, 2018. Last week, on August 30, OSHA made that official and issues a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.The requirement for crane operators to...
In October of last year, officials in Dubai held a groundbreaking ceremony for the Dubai Creek Tower, a building which is expected to surpass the reigning “tallest building” champion, the Burj Dubai. Flash forward just a few short months and over a million hours of...
