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Bauma 2019: Sharing the Experience – Inspiring the Future!

April 25, 2019

Bauma 2019 has come to end on 14th April with a new record number of visitors and we are glad to have taken part to this important event. We would like to thank all our Customers, Partners and Visitors for taking time to visit our booth and for the interest […]

Join PB in Seattle for Superpile ’19!

April 24, 2019

Join us next week for SuperPile ’19 and the pre-conference Impact Testing for Site Characterization Workshop, May 1-3, at the Sheraton Grand Seattle. For the 12th year, several DFI technical committees will combine their industry expertise with ADSC to focus on the latest developments in augered cast-in-place/drilled displacement piles, drilled shafts, driven piles, ground […]

Latest From Aggregate Technologies

April 22, 2019

Expanding to Baton Rouge and National Awards Aggregate Technologies has expanded with the opening of a new office in Baton Rouge, LA. The Houston-based specialty construction firm provides Concrete Cutting, Hydrodemolition, Pile Cutting, Core Drilling, and Wall Sawing to varied industries in Texas and the Gulf Coast. With a commitment […]

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Safety & Risk in Construction: The Importance of Technology

July 9, 2018

View the complete article here. Construction is inherently risky to limb and life. This is in part due to the fact a construction site is a mobile factory, set up quickly, dismantled at the end, and without the ergonomic repetition and lengthy planning of a Henry Ford factory or modern […]

Modern Bidding – The Warp Speed Day and its Post Opening Scramble

March 21, 2018

View the complete article here. In the new “Internet of Things” – speed is everything. The latest technology and trained technology-minded teams are key. This is perhaps most true on bid day, an already hectic if not chaotic mad rush to bid opening. Together, the technology of “Apps”, of whole […]

What the Heck is a “Type II” Differing Site Condition?

December 18, 2017

View the complete article here. Any engineer or deep foundation contractor will invariably face changed soils conditions. There is a bevy of Federal and State court cases, books, and war stories about when, expecting bedrock at 30 feet, the project team encounters “running sand”, baymud, or other gremlins and costs […]