Imagine having government bids and RFPs from your area routinely delivered to you via e-mail. That business-building news is being offered by BidScout, a subscription-based, online service that provides public sector bids and RFPs being let in a subscriber's Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). BidScout reports are e-mailed in pdf format each morning, ...

In an effort to prompt Congress to pass a fully-funded, six-year highway bill , the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) and the I Make America campaign are conducting a Picture a Better America photo contest. The photos will underscore the need to invest in the United States' crumbling infrastructure as well as the workers ...

The Caterpillar® Expo Twenty Tractor shown here was built in 1927. It was the first machine wholly designed and built by what was once called Caterpillar Tractor Co. Prior to producing the Expo Twenty, Caterpillar had been manufacturing track-type tractors using the assets and designs of its two predecessor companies, ...

If you wanted to build a brand new fleet of pickup trucks (people can dream, right?), the Chevy Silverado would provide the best bet for your money, according to Vincentric, a Bingham Farms, Mich., firm in the business of rating vehicle values. Vincentric — which says it "measures and analyzes the ...

GroundBreaker didn't set out to promote women in the construction industry, but on the heels of our recent "Dig This" note about the 50th anniversary of the Miami chapter of Women in Construction comes news that the Associated General Contractors of America has named Kristine Young as the group's first ...

Among your jobsite worries, getting hit by a plane probably ranks somewhere near the bottom. But apparently it could happen. It almost has. At least twice. In an investigative report, the Chicago Tribune says an American Airlines MD-80 airliner touched down at Chicago's O'Hare Airport on a 3,700-foot stretch of runway that ...

2011 marks the 50th anniversary of the Miami chapter of National Women in Construction (NAWIC), and the local group kicked off its year-long celebration during Women In Construction Week, March 6-12. The kick-off events included a Builders Boot Camp, a membership party and 50 women in hardhats participating in a jobsite tour ...

Initially opened in 1925 and closed in 2001, the Richmond Plunge public indoor swimming pool in Richmond, Calif., has been reopened after a 10-year facelift and is being hailed as the "greenest" pool in the country. Richmond Plunge uses 3,500 square feet of solar panels to heat the pool's 324,000 gallons of ...

Beginning in April, fun-seekers in Las Vegas will be able to pay $400 for the thrill of operating a Cat D5 dozer or a Cat 315CL hydraulic excavator. The new "construction theme park," called Dig This, will operate on a five-acre site formerly used as an amusement park. Dig This patrons will ...

These cases have become pretty routine: thieves using stolen construction equipment to break ATM machines out of walls so they can drive away with the money inside. But this time there was a twist — the equipment got stuck inside the bank, and the thief or thieves had to make ...

Engineering News-Record magazine has put together a list of the 10 largest construction projects worldwide. The projects, ranked by cost in U.S. dollars, vary from building a vacation resort in the Persian Gulf to a water diversion project in northern China. The list does not include large-scale residential developments or ...

Hydraulic bath tub? A job perk? Truthfully, we're not sure what to say about this, but you have to admit that the fire was a nice touch. We found this shot at www.funvblog.com and thought it was, well, unusual. If you have a caption for this photo, or a possible ...