How do you give a hammer some swag? You let your personal swag absorb into the hammer by not just placing the hammer in your tool belt, but by nonchalantly tossing it into the air and catching it with your tool belt, like Jimmy Brennan Pedro does in the video below.
Read moreCool Tools: Milwaukee Expands M18 Fuel Series to Drilling and Driving Products
Just last week, Milwaukee released an industry-first cordless braking grinder as part of their M18 FUEL series to market and they’ve now expanded that to include drilling and driving products.
Read moreCool Tools: Industry First Cordless Braking Grinder
Cordless power tools, revered for their mobility, are getting more powerful and useful in commercial settings every day, due to advancing technology. The gap is quickly closing with regards to power and useful life between corded tools and their cordless counterparts. Cordless tools also come with the added benefit of reducing trip and falls, as there’s no electrical cord laying on the job site.
Read moreHave You Ever Seen a Water Tower Fall Over?
It’s not extremely common for a water tower to have to be demolished, but when they do, it’s really interesting. That’s exactly what had to happen to a 30 year old water tower in Plano, TX, in order to make room for a luxury shopping complex.
Read moreThis Robot Wants to Build Your Block Walls for You
Photo courtesy of Construction Robotics
As 3D printed buildings and structures continue to rise in popularity, other on-site robots are hoping to make a name for themselves as well. Long held to being indoors and in controlled environments, robots are now being designed by engineers to endure dynamic situations in the field, to deal with wind movement, bouncing, and other situations.
Read moreNIOSH Finds Simple Solution to a Common Hazard
Photo by Ben Ferenchak, CC BY 2.0
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has recently published a new study that finds a low cost solution to harmful silica dust. Inhaling silica dust, which is commonly found in fiber-cement siding, can lead to a lung disease called silicosis, which is deadly. While silicosis is preventable now, it's estimated that 100 people still die from it each year.
Read moreNew App Helps Contractors Recover Lost or Stolen Property
Screenshots taken from Rejjee App. (Far Left) Input product information for easy access later. (Middle) View of tool and equipment inventory (Far Right) Easily report your property lost or stolen and/or create a police report or and insurance claim with the click of a button.
Contractors use a lot of tools and sometimes those tools end up getting lost or stolen. It's widely estimated that 93% of stolen property is ever recovered and the vast majority of that is motor vehicles. Many contractors never take the time to document the tools and equipment they buy, but now there's an app that not only makes it easy to document your company's assets, but also employs a crowd-sourced effort to help you recover the items.
Read moreBehold, the Hard Hat of the Future (the Future is Now)
Photo courtesy of DAQRI
Hard hats have been around for over a hundred years now, but besides their higher frequency of use, they haven’t changed much. Well, it’s 2015 now and also the year that Back to the Future predicted that we’d be flying around on hover boards, so someone has decided to make something of the dusty, old, worn out hard hat.
Read more3D Printing Robots Will Build Bridge in Amsterdam On Site
Up until now everything that has been 3D printed for construction use has been done so in a lab and sent out to a job site and been assembled by humans. The makers of MX3D are on the cutting edge of autonomous 3D printing on location.
Read moreCool Tools: Zero-Noise & Zero-Emissions Mobile Power Source
Photo courtesy of Boulder Power Technologies
Generators are great for supplying power to job sites where temporary power is not yet available, but, unfortunately, the loud noise and gasoline fumes also accompany the convenience. This can be especially problematic near residential neighborhoods where noise restrictions are in place, and in enclosed spaces, which cause hazardous air quality conditions for your employees. Boulder Power Technologies has just released a solution to this problem...
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