The nomination ballot is now closed on Construction Junkie’s Best Construction Podcast of 2015 and the voting ballot has officially opened, submit your votes on the form below. Voting will end at 5pm CST on May 6th and the winner will be crowned shortly after. Good luck to all of the finalists!
Read moreA Better, Stronger, Future Alternative to Cement
Photo courtesy of the Official US Navy Imagery
Cement has been around for a long time, historically since the Ancient Babylonians and Assyrians, whom used bitumen to bind materials together. In modern times, Portland cement has been the leader in the cement industry since it was created in Britain in the mid-1700s. Annually, Portland cement manufactures roughly 76.7 million metric tons of cement in the United States alone. There’s no telling how much they’ve manufactured for China, who has used more concrete in the past 3 years than the US did in the entire 20th Century!
Read moreKite Bricks Aims to Revolutionize the Way Structures Are Built
Remember back to when you were a child, playing on your living room floor with hundreds of multi-colored Legos littering the area around you as you attempted to assemble your dream house. Now, imagine doing that as an adult, but for real. That’s exactly what the inventors of Kite Bricks hope to accomplish.
Read moreStop Wondering When Your Next Batch of Concrete is Arriving
Truckest
There’s nothing worse for productivity or your schedule than sitting around the job site twiddling your thumbs waiting for materials to rise, especially when it comes to concrete. For most jobs, concrete pours are milestones that just can’t be missed without devastating consequences. The problem is, concrete deliveries place the contractor at the mercy of the supplier, making call after call following up to make sure there are no delays.
Read moreNYC's New Push for Modular Apartments
Like it or not pre-manufactured modular construction is coming to America. It has been used in other countries as fast inexpensive housing, but that doesn't make it bad. When most people think of modular housing they think of shipping containers, ugly squares and rectangles, trailer parks in the sky. But that stigma is about to change.
Read moreNominate Your Favorite Construction Podcast 2015! [CLOSED]
Alright Junkies, we need your help! Let us know what your favorite construction related podcast is by entering it into the form below! After 2 weeks of nominations, we'll open the polls for voting. We'll be keeping this page updated for all of the podcasts that receive nominations, so if you don't see yours, set up to the plate.
Read moreCommunicate Effectively & Visually With Free Autodesk Software
Autodesk
The madness must stop. Don’t waste one more second going around and around trying to explain an issue you’re having with your construction documents over the phone. If you have access to DWG, DWF, or DXF files of your project’s drawings you can quickly and easily explain yourself without all the confusion and frustration of trying to explain which of the 120 structural columns were set in the wrong place.
Read moreManage Your Site Inventory For Free with Google Drive (Part III)
Part 3 of our multi-part series on how to create a FREE inventory system using Google Drive will dive deep into data manipulation. As a refresher, Part one talked about the overall process summary and part 2 discussed setting up a Google Form to easily grab data from anyone or anywhere that has an internet or mobile connection.
Read more4 Free Apps for Annotating and Dimensioning Pictures
While taking measurements based upon pictures may not be ready for field use yet, the ability to mark up pictures with measurements and annotations using existing cell phone applications is a useful and important tool for the construction professional. After a long day on the job site taking hundreds of pictures, it’s easy to forget exactly why or where a specific picture was taken. The cell phone applications below will not only keep yourself from forgetting details about your photos, but will also help you effectively and clearly communicate to your co-workers and other contractors.
Read moreManage Your Site Inventory For Free with Google Drive (Part II)
In Part I of our tutorial, we walked through the overall process of managing your site inventory with Google Drive. The first step in setting up your inventory is creating a Google Form with the questions and input fields that pertain to your job. Every company has a different idea of what is important and Forms allows you to easily customize your form to suit your needs.
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