United Rentals’ ProBox OnDemand Automates Tool Tracking
Tool loss is rampant on worksites, so much so that contractors often find themselves replacing 30% or more of their tools during a project. The costs add up, and as profit margins...
Construction Dewatering Q&A with the Experts
In a recent webinar, United Rentals Fluid Solutions experts drew on their combined 120 years of experience in pumps, filtration and fluid solutions to answer participants’...
Jobsite Water Compliance
Understanding water compliance, as used on a construction jobsite, is critical for keeping projects on time and budget. Expected or unexpected water, and contaminants in that water...
Solving America’s Wastewater Woes
Like so much of America’s infrastructure, our wastewater infrastructure is aging and inadequate. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers’ 2017 Infrastructure Report...
Why a Site Visit Is Critical to Outage Planning
Thorough planning is essential to every plant outage to minimize disruption to production, limit costs and keep the outage as short as possible. While much of the preparation can...
Permeable Pavement Advances Pave the Way for Increased Adoption
Permeable pavement. Pervious pavement. Porous pavement. No matter which term is used to describe them, urban surfaces that allow water to run through them to the soil below rather...
New Money Flowing into U.S. Water and Wastewater Infrastructure
Highways and bridges are the most noticeable examples of the United States’ crumbling infrastructure, but there are other, less visible infrastructure systems that are equally in...
Green Stormwater Infrastructure Is Having Its Day
Not long ago, systems engineered to manage and mitigate stormwater runoff were predominately of the “gray” variety: pipes, pumps, concrete-lined ditches and manmade detention ponds...
Employee vs. Independent Contractor: What Is the Difference?
Tax season is here. One big challenge for construction companies is classifying its different workers. Are they employees or independent contractors? Misclassify the former as the...
