Articles by Larry Stewart

Safe slab and beam shoring starts before installation
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Published on: 21 March 2023
Shoring best practices from SAIA lead with critical questions any project needs answered in detail to shore safely
US equipment makers鈥� encouraging return to growth
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Published on: 14 March 2023
AEM report details industry鈥檚 rebound ahead of ConExpo 2023
Contrary economic indicators suggest a curiously calm 2023
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Published on: 02 February 2023
December construction spending and employment chaos offer insights that may silence the recession alarms
Deere reveals an electric excavator at CES
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Published on: 16 January 2023
Excavator鈥檚 immersion cooling system to reduce daily operating costs and jobsite noise
Construction hoist use is lowering labor costs, driving adaptation
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Published on: 10 January 2023
With labor scarce, contractors and scaffolders are innovating to save time hoisting people and growing loads to record-setting heights. Larry Stewart reports
Caterpillar partners with a customer to bring robot haul trucks to smaller sites
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Published on: 16 December 2022
Autonomous heavy equipment is not so much a technology of the future as a current tech waiting to be scaled for different kinds of jobs
鈥楻ecord鈥� carbon output for buildings and construction
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Published on: 18 November 2022
CO2 produced by construction and buildings hit a record-high in 2021 
Volvo CE invests in sustainable haulers
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Published on: 16 November 2022
Investment in hauler facility will enable OEM to offer 鈥榖roader鈥� range of haulers with different powertrains
Scaffolder鈥檚 design tool wins global BIM award
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Published on: 11 October 2022
Australian scaffolder takes a Tekla Global BIM Award with software that helps design scaffolds in 3D with automated safety features, engineering reports, virtual reality and collaboration
Electrification of access machines is outpacing regulation鈥檚 drive
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Published on: 26 September 2022
Greenhouse-gas reduction primed the pump but environmental investors and operating advantages are making electric power trains today鈥檚 dominant innovation in lifts and telehandlers
Ashtead鈥檚 26% rental-revenue jump reflects rising Sunbelt rates
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Published on: 19 September 2022
The equipment-rental boom fueled by contractors skirting supply-chain challenges is driving rates and acquisitions on both sides of the Atlantic for the Anglo-American rental giant
Alimak Group closes acquisition of Tall Crane
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Published on: 29 August 2022
Swedish access company closed the acquisition of Tall Crane Equipment, a Canadian provider of hoist and crane rental services and Alimak customer