Manufacturing has finally moved up a gear and construction firms have put spades in the ground.
One sign of this is that sales of wheeled loaders, useful for moving gear at construction sites as well as lifting dirt into the backs of trucks, fell more slowly this spring than excavator sales did, down an estimated 47 percent from March to June.
They talked about a few potential products coming out down the road — nothing concrete — but they did mention emergency gear and construction tools that used fuel cells.
The wave will hit Corby hardest just as the town's army of builders gears up construction at the town's biggest development.
Those statistics don't sit right with Bill Borwegen, occupational health and safety director of the Service Employees International Union, the nation's largest labor union, who says that 85% of OSHA's inspections are geared toward construction and manufacturing.
A product geared towards construction seems like a great idea when the economy is humming, but if it slows (and it looks like we're heading into a slowdown now), is an architecture startup really a great place to be?
The rioters had uprooted parking meters and street signs and grabbed construction gear from street projects to use as weapons.
In South Africa, they joined the men building one of the stadiums for this summer's World Cup; they didn't eat until tea time because they spent their lunch break playing soccer in full construction gear, throwing down hard hats as goal posts.
Never accept a 'no': Corralejo's business, Macondo Leasing Co., leases equipment including construction gear and office items.
The stadium project isn't quite done — bulldozers, cranes and construction gear occupy the site — but city officials were determined to clear the way for the music event, expected to draw 60,000 fans.
