Construction Informer

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For you people who do estimating there’s now a new option in terms of a touchscreen monitor. Maxwell Systems has come out with of a touchscreen monitor that allows you to do your estimating by touching the screen. You can do digital takeoffs directly from [...]

This is one of the more than 30 entries in the Construction Innovation Forum’s 2008 NOVA awards and it stands to help make concrete operations a little bit more environmentally friendly.
Called Envirowash, this system is a closed-loop recycling process for the water that is used in cleaning out concrete truck drums. All the washout water [...]

The idea about whether or not building materials like concrete and granite contribute to degrading the indoor air quality by leaking radon is surfacing again. A new, not-for-profit (pending) launched by Sara Speer Selber is trying to focus interest on studies that would “eventually generate new standards for building product health and safety.” It’s called [...]

Enforcement of air quality standards at construction sites is increasing especially in the face of more severe weather events and the results of the changing climate having an impact on winds. Another key area that is looked at by localities and the EPA is how water flowing from construction sites impacts the local environment.

In the [...]