Digging Deeper - ForConstructionPros

Construction business owners looking to help manage the chaos at their company won’t want to miss Dave Crenshaw’s session at the Ignite Construction Summit. Listen to his podcast with Ignite Conference Manager Jessica Lombardo for tips on how your company can be more focused to maximize profits. 

In a year full of challenges, Wirtgen America saw opportunity to grow and emerged even stronger from COVID-19. In this episode of Digging Deeper, Asphalt Contractor Editor-in-Chief Jessica Lombardo talks with Matthew Graves, Director of Marketing Communications with Wirtgen America about the company's priority to remain close to their customers during the pandemic.

Jacqueline Pruitt tells how she proved herself in the strenuous rebar installation trade and positioned herself to found Marvella Steel Placers, a successful rebar installation company, after just a few years in the construction industry. She also shares insights on how other women can forge their own career in construction.

Barton Malow Company’s Matt Hedke, director of virtual design and construction, and Ryan Tow, operations manager, discuss the benefits the company has gained by implementing tool tracking technology to not only manage hand tool inventory and logistics on projects but also capture data on tool performance and use.

Callie Nottingham, project manager, McCarthy Building Companies’ Southern California Region, shares her journey into the construction industry, as well as the various components of the McCarthy Partnership for Women, a program designed to help grow women’s opportunities from within, and outside, of the organization.

It might be Work Zone Safety Awareness Week but the asphalt industry works tirelessly year round to find a path towards improving the safety of these work zones for each employee. Asphalt Materials Inc has made safety one of their core values and shares their thoughts on how other companies can make safety a priority for their crews as well.

In this Digging Deeper podcast, Editor Becky Schultz speaks with three female team members from Sunbelt Rentals – Tiffanie Mendez, regional sales director, Dayna Shelkey-Bray, national strategic customer manager, and Kristie Thompson, mechanic. The women share their diverse backgrounds and roles within the company, their own career paths within Sunbelt Rentals, and the larger career potential for...

Lea Stendahl, executive vice president and chief marketing officer at Suffolk Construction, shares her unique path into the industry and the various career opportunities she sees for other women in construction. She also highlights Suffolk’s “Rebuild the Ratio” campaign, which not only targets 10% growth in the company’s female workforce over the next 10 years, but partners with two youth-centered...

Roger Grant, BIM manager at the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS), discusses NIBS’ efforts to expand application of a national Building Information Management (BIM) standard, as well as promote a public-private partnership to produce a national BIM program that holds potential to improve construction productivity and cut costs by anywhere from 13% to 20% on major infrastructure and ot...

In this throwback Digging Deeper podcast from CONEXPO 2020, ForConstructionPros.com conducted interviews with various manufacturers and experts while at CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2020 to discuss jobsite connectivity issues, integrating mobile apps with software platforms and more.

Steve Whaley, director of Autogas business development, the Propane Education Research Council, shares how converting medium- and heavy-duty internal combustion engines to propane actually produces a lower carbon footprint in the vast majority of states versus electrical vehicles. Other advantages of propane adoption are discussed as well.

Richard Branch, chief economist at Dodge Data & Analytics, shares the current construction outlook and how a major infrastructure investment plan could become a “game changer” for the industry. He also addresses questions on what the plan could mean to various industry sectors – as well as the major hurdles that could impact its passage.

This episode of Digger Deeper features Bruno Gattamorta, VP of Sales and Marketing, Cojali USA. He discusses the advantages of investing in diesel engine diagnostic systems and how these systems can streamline maintenance and repair operations for contractors, rental houses and dealers in the construction industry.

Dr. Dan Carlin tells how his company, JobSiteCare, is delivering physician-led managed healthcare directly to injured or ill workers on the construction site. He also shares how the TextBadge smartphone-based screening technology provides customizable capabilities that will keep workers safer during the pandemic – and well beyond.

We sat down with Pavement Best of the Web award winner, Marvin Joles of Wis-Coat to discuss how to create a website that reflects your business culture.

This interview addresses the challenges of training CDL truck drivers during the COVID pandemic

Peter Bigwood, general manager of Mecalac, highlights the challenges of attracting workers into the construction industry and the role advances in equipment and technology can play in building the next-generation workforce.

Big changes at the cloud construction-management leader include improved collaboration, muscular financial capability and a very short lead time for more-interactive AI

In this episode of Digging Deeper, Stephen King, president and CEO of GrowthForce, discusses the prevalence, and costs, of fraud in the construction industry, especially among smaller businesses; the steps contractors can take to identify and mitigate risks; and the role technology can play in fraud prevention.

In this episode of Digging Deeper, Johana Godoy, assistant superintendent at Skanska USA, shares her experiences and career growth in the field of construction, as well as the many opportunities the industry offers for other women who are seeking a promising and rewarding career path.

In this episode of Digging Deeper, David Wald, CEO and co-founder of Aclaimant, a safety and risk management solutions provider, discusses the unique safety risks and regulatory challenges construction companies will face this winter due to COVID-19, and the role technology can play in helping to mitigate those risks and ensure your business maintains compliance in what has become an ever-changing...

Ongoing research into limiting concrete form face surface defects with Controlled Frequency Vibrators has shown great promise. Field investigations into limiting high frequency vibration to control the amount of concrete material separation using the same approach to limit the surface distresses in concrete pavements. Researchers have applied some common sense and solid clinical analysis to make p...

In this episode of Digging Deeper, Doug Hacker, national sales rep, Kato - Compact Excavator Sales, highlights the company’s recent excavator product line expansions, the return of a fan favorite compact track loader and further additions and opportunities that lie ahead for both the company and its customers as we head into in 2021.

In this episode of Digging Deeper, Stephen King, president and CEO of GrowthForce, one the country’s largest cloud-based accounting services, shares strategies construction business owners can use to not only improve cash flow in the current challenging economic climate but long term. He also highlights the opportunities data-driven decision making can provide by enabling contractors to more accur...

In this episode of Digging Deeper, Peter Halldin, CSO and co-founder of MIPS, a Swedish helmet safety company, discusses safety risks not currently addressed by construction hard hats and how technology such as the Multi-directional Impact Protection System can help to mitigate those risks and make workers even safer on jobsites.