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Ice and snow on roads cause increased traffic accidents and businesses and school to close. The most popular defenses against ice build-up is to salt or sand roads, sidewalks and driveways, but it’s expensive for cities to send out trucks to drop it. Not only that, but most of it gets picked up by cars or wash away when the snow and ice melts, causing it to need to be re-applied.
Read moreThere are many times that I wonder how certain procedures or inventions were discovered and this is certainly one of them.
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The metallic structure is called microlattice and it is 99.99% air. In fact, it's so light that it can balance on top of a dandelion. The microlattice takes a queue from nature and mirrors bone structure to gain its strength, rigidity, and lightness.
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The Liebherr T 282 C is one of the largest haul trucks in the world, in terms of payload capacity, and its assembly is no less impressive. In fact, the size of the haul truck requires a tower crane for final assembly. These mining trucks, due to their size, are not built like your normal sedan. There are nearly no stamped parts and every piece is welded together for strength and durability.
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It is also an international affair, many of the parts come from Germany, Canada and the United States and the final assembly in this case takes place in Australia. The hauler itself without payload is over 237 tons and with a full load it can reach a total gross vehicle weight of over 600 tons. That means that the Lieberr T 282 C has the payload capacity equal to the weight of a Boeing 747.
Plenty of spectator sports around the country are based around the destruction of vehicles, such as demolition derbies and monster truck rallies. But those sports are missing one thing: gigantic construction equipment that barely even notice when they run over things.
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Fires are never expected to happen, but when they do, you better be prepared. Komatsu America recently put together a quick video that highlights a few easy ways to prevent fires from starting in your rolling construction equipment on the job site. Most fires can be prevented by conducting simple checks, so requiring periodic checks on your job site can not only save lives or injury, but save tons of time and money in the future.
Read moreIt’s no secret that people like to be the biggest and the best. Companies and workers in the construction industry are no different. While areas like the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are building gigantic structures at an incredible rate to increase their tourism, the United States is again left behind, which has been a trend in the past couple decades.
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Milwaukee Tool has had a busy year in 2015. They’ve expanded many of the M18 Fuel Power Tool lines to drilling and driving products, released an industry first cordless breaking grinder, released a new 3-in-1 heated ripstop jacket, and released the start of their powerful new tool reporting and customizing application One-Key. Milwaukee has already released phase one of One-Key, the inventory management portion (which you can learn more about here) and have released a set of One-Key enabled crimpers that allow tool reporting, which is phase 2.
Read moreTwo construction workers were treated for serious burns after an electrical explosion caused by their jackhammer hitting a live 11,000V electrical wire while prepping a job site to lay bricks. Though the incident happened in Millbank, London back in 2013, video has just recently surfaced and the construction companies involved have been hit with large fines for exposing their workers to safety risks.
Read moreMost people think of concrete as a solid grey material. True, that is how it ends up, but it doesn’t begin that way.
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On Tuesday morning, February 23, the Syracuse Fire Department responded to a call about a collapsed crane on a construction site near the university. Thankfully, no injuries were reported.