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ALL Family of Companies Named a Load King Cranes Authorized Service Center

July 10, 2020

Load King, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Custom Truck One Source (Custom Truck), has named The ALL Family of Companies (ALL) an Authorized Service Center for Load King Cranes. The announcement is effective immediately. With locations throughout North America, ALL will service Load King boom trucks, truck cranes, and Terex legacy […]

PFS System from Simpson Strong-Tie Now Code Listed for Building Portal Frames for Wider Openings with Faster Installation

July 10, 2020

Simpson Strong-Tie, the leader in engineered structural connectors and building solutions, has received code listing from the International Code Council Evaluation Services (ICC-ES) for its Strong-Wall® site-built portal frame system (PFS) designed to provide engineers, builders, and framers in prescriptive markets with an easy way to meet code-defined wall bracing […]

DFI Announces New Chair of Women in Deep Foundations Committee

July 10, 2020

Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) announces that Lucky Nagarajan, general manager-engineering and business development for Giken America, is the new chair of the DFI Women in Deep Foundations (WiDF) Committee. She succeeds Maysill Pascal, P.E., senior regional engineer/sales manager for USW, a Menard Group USA Company. The WiDF Committee is a […]

Legal

Project Delay Strategies for Suppliers and Equipment Rental Companies

May 20, 2020

View the complete article here. By Mark Rice, Esq. What is the Mumbai case? Well, a 123-page Court Opinion on project delays associated with construction of the new US Consular Office in Mumbai, India. It seems that parallel to the project, the US Government and the Republic of India were […]

Indemnification Clauses: Is Yours Enforceable

November 1, 2019

View the complete version here. Heavy equipment rental companies always require those renting their equipment to sign an agreement, and one of the terms in that agreement is very likely to be an indemnification provision. However, enforceability of such a clause will depend on the actual language used to shift […]

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 […]