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Read ArticleWhy All the Fuss About Digital Transformation?
What is so new about digital transformation? Haven’t we been using the internet, Web, email, and other digital tools for decades in our business? Wasn’t that what “e-business” was all about in the...
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Read ArticleDo You Really Understand What Actionable Insights Are?
“Actionable insights” seems to be a buzzword that people have been using lately, but it’s not clear that the distinction is fully recognized. Data, analytics, and insights are not the same thing...
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Read ArticleClimate Change: What It Means for the Industry and How Technology Can Help
The construction industry has one of the lowest profit margins in comparison to other major industries. Tiny, unexpected weather mishaps can deem some projects unprofitable. Climate change can...
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Read ArticleA Closer Look: Are You Facing a Labor Shortage – Or A Shortage of Labor?
In such tight labor market, it’s tough finding and retaining the workers with the skills and dedication you need to get the job done. The shortage of labor is increasingly problematic in the heavy...
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Read ArticleJob Site Waste: How to Control the Chaos
To the casual observer, most construction sites look like a busy, noisy, muddy mess, with mountains of materials and machinery (some in full operation; some seemingly abandoned), buzzed occasionally..
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Read ArticleManage, Control, Analyze, and Improve Your Service Anywhere
An opportunity to increase revenue and customer satisfaction is providing electronic proof of delivery. Real-time visibility of driver and materials location, proof of delivery data, and operational u
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Read ArticleKeep Calm and Call the Supply Chain Guys
To reduce the costs, risks, and waste that result from out-of-stock and over-stock situations, inefficient hauling practices, and lack of transparency, you need a little magic up your sleeve to...
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Read ArticleTop Secrets to Attracting New Talent in the Asphalt Industry
Finding and keeping talent is a nationwide problem – one that was addressed by Kevin Reester with Reester & Associates at the World of Asphalt show in Indianapolis...
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Read ArticleEconomists Predict the State of the Construction Industry for 2019
An extended federal government shutdown and instability in the global markets started 2019 off with a shaky foundation. Yet, the U.S. construction industry is still projected to see favorable...
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Read ArticleImprove Your Concrete Craft by Integrating Color
COMMANDbatch can be integrated with Euclid Chemical’s Color-Matic G color dispensers to provide direct control of color system start and discharge commands. Graphic indicators can be added to the...
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Read ArticleInnovative Building Materials that Could Revolutionize Construction
Building materials like cement, wood, steel and glass often have limitations, including degradation and production-related environmental impacts. But new materials in the works could help companies...
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Read ArticleHow Integrated Project Delivery Supports Successful Construction Management
While most industries have doubled their productivity in the last five decades, construction has dramatically lagged until recently. Now practitioners turn to the Integrated Project Delivery (IPD)...
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Read ArticleCareer-Tracking Teens into Construction?
It’s no secret that there’s a years-long labor shortage in the construction industry. And it’s got some legislators and construction industry leaders thinking creatively...
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Read Article"Late Adopter Industry Goes from Good to Great with Transportation Management" Featured on SupplyChainBrain
Dave Donaldson, Business Unit Manager for COMMANDoptimize at Command Alkon, discusses the benefits of transforming transportation logistics through the implementation of a transportation management...
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Read ArticleThe Future of Construction Automation
We need to start developing a healthier relationship with these sorts of technologies, because they are designed to have a symbiotic relationship with the user. The ability to monitor the movement...
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Read Article103,900 Additional Workers Are Needed to Meet Ontario's Construction Needs
The construction labor shortage is a world-wide quandary – the Ontario construction market, led by the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), is expected to retain its intensity through the coming decade...
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Read ArticleControl Tower Visibility: More than a View from Above
The virtual control tower gives supply chain managers the ability to proactively address potential issues across all functional areas—working with business partners to anticipate and solve problems...
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Read ArticleDeliver A+ Customer Experience by Transitioning from A Process-Driven World to A Data-Driven World
The adoption of advanced analytics, AI, and the success of any digital transformation relies on the data – and in a data-driven world, organizations can rethink many of its assumptions. In...
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Read ArticleConstruction's Five “C” Equation for 2019 and Beyond
The formula for break-through productivity performance and outcome assurance across the construction industry is as follows: Collaboration + Customer Experience + Communications + Certainty...
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Read Article8 ½ Predictions for 2019 and Beyond
The construction industry this year will continue to be as strong as it was in 2018, according to the Dodge Outlook Report. The report predicts that total U.S. construction starts for 2019 will be $80
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