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Plant or refinery turnarounds and shutdowns are complex, intense events with many moving parts and swarms of contractors who aren’t normally onsite. Planning such an event calls...

Without heavy equipment operators, most roads, bridges, buildings, airports, pipelines and power plants would not exist. Nor would most mines. And yet, with older operators...

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...

When electrical connections are limited or non-existent at a jobsite, a portable generator keeps the power tools running and your workers productive. Portable generators also are...

Delivering construction projects on time and on budget remains a major challenge for construction companies. According to a global 2017 KPMG survey, only 25 percent of senior...

Equipment, especially heavy equipment, is one of the biggest line items of any construction company’s budget. Making smart decisions about how long to hold onto these assets and...

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. 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...

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...

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...