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Workers hit gas line sparking massive explosion in NYC: 3 buildings collapse, 25 injured
A massive explosion that rocked New York City Thursday, causing the collapse of three buildings and injuring 25 people, has been traced back to a gas line accidentally hit by construction workers in an East Village sushi restaurant. According to a report from NBC New York, in the wake of the explosion, two people are […]
March 27, 2015
Loader uprights truck, gravity and a steep hill have other plans
The problem with gravity is there’s no pause button. In this case, what these poor guys seem to have forgotten is that the same force that pulled the truck on its side in the first place will still be at play whenever the wheel loader finishes its job of pulling it back onto its wheels. […]
March 27, 2015
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Guy stuffs an excavator into a minivan for transport
Who needs a trailer to transport equipment when you’ve got a very old minivan? As the headline states, this guy does succeed in getting this excavator into that van. But it doesn’t really matter if I ruin the ending for you because as you watch, you won’t believe the inevitable even as it takes place. No matter […]
March 20, 2015
Construction Equipment
Fecon’s Stumpex attachment removes most stumps in just 90 seconds, makes debris cleanup a snap
When a land clearing contractor brought what eventually became the Stumpex attachment to Fecon, the concept still needed a lot of work to make it commercially viable. “We started working together and added some features that turned out to be very effective,” says Denis Goldbach, vice president, Fecon. Fecon says the slow rotation, high torque […]
March 18, 2015
Roadbuilding
Volvo CE unveils first intelligent compaction system with real-time density, multitouch display
Volvo Construction Equipment today introduced the industry’s first intelligent compaction (IC) system that measures density in real time at the World of Asphalt show in Baltimore. Dubbed Density Direct, the Android-based system’s user interface features a 10-inch touch screen with multitouch capabilities much like a smart phone or tablet that operators should find familiar. Joe Petracone, with […]
March 17, 2015
Construction Equipment
Bucking roller operator hangs on for dear life when dozer helps a bit too much
The ways people can make loading up a piece of heavy equipment much more dangerous than it has to be never cease to amaze. Much like last week, we’ve got a dozer shoving another piece of equipment in order to help load it up. But this week we’ve got a roller and a ramp up […]
March 13, 2015
Construction Equipment
In construction of “Spaceship” campus, Apple recycles 95% of concrete from demolition on-site
While Google is still in the early phases of design and approval with ambitious plans for upgrades to its campus, construction on Apple’s new Campus 2 is fully under way. KQED was recently granted a tour of the jobsite by Apple. There are actually two versions of the article, one published by NPR and another on the […]
March 12, 2015
Construction Equipment
Watch a 57-story skyscraper get built in just 19 days in this breakneck time-lapse
Remember Sky City? It was set to be the world’s tallest building, rising 220 stories and 2,750 feet above Changsha, China. But more importantly, the original goal was to build the massive skyscraper in just 90 days using pre-fabricated pieces. After pushing that back to the slightly more realistic seven months, construction on the building was […]
March 11, 2015
Roadbuilding
Big Bertha breaks through: tunnel-boring machine enters repair pit, ready for disassembly
Though she remains very far from being done, Big Bertha completed a very important leg in her journey beneath Seattle last week, breaking through a thick wall of concrete and into a 12-story pit. According to a report from the Associated Press, the world’s largest tunnel-boring machine moved 57 feet since February 17 to enter […]
March 9, 2015
Roadbuilding
Atlas Copco demos new F1000T paver with Cummins Tier 4 Final engine
The Atlas Copco Dynapac F1000T paver now features a Tier 4 Final Cummins diesel engine, a key development in the machine is now able to operate in extreme conditions, including heat, with an efficient cooling system. While a prototype was on display at ConExpo 2014, a production-ready machine was on display at the company’s dealer event last […]
March 9, 2015
Construction Equipment
Crane collapses into water after dozer shoves it onto barge that doesn’t stay put
How this didn’t end in someone being very badly injured is a miracle. As you’ll see in the video below, this crew is loading a crane onto a barge by pushing it along with a dozer. Everything is fine until the barge starts moving—without the crane fully on board. The crane goes for a swim […]
March 5, 2015
Construction Equipment
PHOTOS: Ford unveils a real Tonka dump truck built from an F-750
[imagebrowser id=207] Last year, right around this time at the NTEA Work Truck Show, Ford officially unveiled its latest work trucks, the 2016 F-650 and the F-750. And while there was no new body design to show off at this year’s show, Ford still managed to wow everybody in attendance with quite the unveiling: an honest […]
March 4, 2015
Roadbuilding
Can John Oliver’s stand on U.S. infrastructure do for highway funding what “Last Week Tonight” did for net neutrality?
John Oliver, on the latest episode of his HBO program “Last Week Tonight”, aimed his comedic wit at the issue of the need for infrastructure spending in the U.S., much in the same way he targeted the net neutrality issue in 2014. Many pundits believe his call to action last year, funny as it was, helped push […]
March 2, 2015
Business
PHOTOS: Google to build greenhouse-like HQ defined by movable construction housed in see-through canopies
[imagebrowser id=206] With construction of competitor Apple’s new spaceship-like Campus 2 well underway, Google has announced its own plans for a revamp to its headquarters in Mountain View, California. And while Apple’s project is of interest to construction professionals due to the sheer scale of the $5 billion project alone, Google’s is interesting in how […]
March 2, 2015
Construction Equipment
Excavator punches and crushes a Kia Soul to a slow, painful death
This is an effectively therapeutic video. Now, I’m not sure what this poor Kia Soul did to incur this excavator operator’s wrath, but one thing is for sure: this is thorough destruction. After the first few punches of the machine’s bucket you think, “Well that was fun, but the car is flat so I guess he’s about […]
February 27, 2015
Construction Equipment
Thief takes wheel loader for destructive joyride through Kansas City neighborhood
After stealing the machine from a Kansas City, Missouri, jobsite, a man went on a joyride through the surrounding neighborhood racking up thousands of dollars in property damage along the way. According to a report from KCTV 5, the loader belonged to Britz Wrecking and was taken from the site around 5 a.m. Tuesday. Along […]
February 26, 2015
Workforce
Wisconsin Senate passes right-to-work bill amid protests
After two days of chaotic protests from union supporters and construction industry workers and officials, the Wisconsin Senate voted late Wednesday night to pass fast-tracked right-to-work legislation. According to a report from the Wisconsin State Journal, Senate Bill 44 passed by a margin of 17-15. The bill would mean Wisconsin workers in the private sector could […]
February 25, 2015
Construction Equipment
Caterpillar powers village’s massive Chinese New Year celebration with a single generator in this beautiful ad
It’s got to be a hard thing to make an interesting ad about a generator. Let alone one that’s kind of beautiful and highlights the power (pun not intended) of something that a lot of us take for granted. But that’s what Caterpillar has managed to pull of in the latest video in its series of Built for […]
February 24, 2015
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