Barton Malow Company’s Matt Hedke, director of virtual design and construction, and Ryan Tow, operations manager, discuss the benefits the company has gained by implementing tool tracking technology to not only manage hand tool inventory and logistics on projects but also capture data on tool performance and use.

Callie Nottingham, project manager, McCarthy Building Companies’ Southern California Region, shares her journey into the construction industry, as well as the various components of the McCarthy Partnership for Women, a program designed to help grow women’s opportunities from within, and outside, of the organization.

It might be Work Zone Safety Awareness Week but the asphalt industry works tirelessly year round to find a path towards improving the safety of these work zones for each employee. Asphalt Materials Inc has made safety one of their core values and shares their thoughts on how other companies can make safety a priority for their crews as well.

In this Digging Deeper podcast, Editor Becky Schultz speaks with three female team members from Sunbelt Rentals – Tiffanie Mendez, regional sales director, Dayna Shelkey-Bray, national strategic customer manager, and Kristie Thompson, mechanic. The women share their diverse backgrounds and roles within the company, their own career paths within Sunbelt Rentals, and the larger career potential for women within the construction industry.

Lea Stendahl, executive vice president and chief marketing officer at Suffolk Construction, shares her unique path into the industry and the various career opportunities she sees for other women in construction. She also highlights Suffolk’s “Rebuild the Ratio” campaign, which not only targets 10% growth in the company’s female workforce over the next 10 years, but partners with two youth-centered organizations to offer STEM education to girls at an early age to help build the next-generation workforce.

Roger Grant, BIM manager at the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS), discusses NIBS’ efforts to expand application of a national Building Information Management (BIM) standard, as well as promote a public-private partnership to produce a national BIM program that holds potential to improve construction productivity and cut costs by anywhere from 13% to 20% on major infrastructure and other projects.

In this throwback Digging Deeper podcast from CONEXPO 2020, ForConstructionPros.com conducted interviews with various manufacturers and experts while at CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2020 to discuss jobsite connectivity issues, integrating mobile apps with software platforms and more.

Steve Whaley, director of Autogas business development, the Propane Education Research Council, shares how converting medium- and heavy-duty internal combustion engines to propane actually produces a lower carbon footprint in the vast majority of states versus electrical vehicles. Other advantages of propane adoption are discussed as well.

Richard Branch, chief economist at Dodge Data & Analytics, shares the current construction outlook and how a major infrastructure investment plan could become a “game changer” for the industry. He also addresses questions on what the plan could mean to various industry sectors – as well as the major hurdles that could impact its passage.

This episode of Digger Deeper features Bruno Gattamorta, VP of Sales and Marketing, Cojali USA. He discusses the advantages of investing in diesel engine diagnostic systems and how these systems can streamline maintenance and repair operations for contractors, rental houses and dealers in the construction industry.