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The Trouble With Talent: Why Employees Are Disengaged and What To Do About It
The year was 2000. The startup that launched in 1998 had outgrown the garage, relocating to a nondescript building in an office park a couple of miles off the highway. Outside that building, on an asphalt parking lot, yellow police tape marked off an area where...
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Construction Disruption: Fastbrick Robotics
We’ve heard of industrial robots building a block structure in record-making time. We’ve also seen outdoor construction robots. Then Fastbrick Robotics (soon to be known as simply FBR) introduces its Hadrian X. This one may be the instrument that revolutionizes the...
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Safety: Fall Protection: It’s Safe to Say that Knowledge is Your Greatest Tool
Implementing a proper fall protection plan is difficult. Here are the basics to give you a firm foundation on which to build your fall protection plan. More than just a number – trigger heights The legal need for fall protection is generally based on a trigger height,...
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Shop Talk: Silica One Contractor’s Journey Part 2
The Chino Hills High School project was back underway and the dust issue was solved. After completion of this project, Guth went back to MK Diamond Products, Inc. and asked them to manufacture this new system. “I even offered to be the first customer and buy the first...
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Big Foot or Mast Climber — Take Your Pick
There's a ratio of body surface to foot size for vertical adhesion that would require the average human to have a size 114 foot and some sticky stuff to walk on a vertical surface. That is one Big Foot. As it is, the largest animal capable of walking on vertical...
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OSHA’s Respirable Crystalline Silica Standard: FAQ Introduction
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) has just released a set of 53 Frequently Asked Questions (“FAQs”) to provide guidance to employers and employees regarding OSHA’s respirable crystalline silica standard for construction. Through the...
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Chairman’s Message: Recent Updates
From MCAA President, Jeff Buczkiewicz: This month I have the honor of guest writing for our Chairman Paul Odom. I would like to extend my condolences to the entire Odom family on the loss of Travis Odom, Paul’s father. Paul will be back with his column next month. ...
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Shop Talk: Silica One Contractor’s Journey Part 2
The Chino Hills High School project was back underway and the dust issue was solved. After completion of this project, Guth went back to MK Diamond Products, Inc. and asked them to manufacture this new system. “I even offered to be the first customer and buy the first...
read morePainter’s Corner: MCAA Magazine
Subject: Is Masonry Ever Perfect? Jerry Painter The definition of perfect is to be complete, flawless, faultless or exact. Soooo, is masonry ever perfect? The short answer is yes. Whenever you can put together the perfect design, the perfect material and perfect...
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MCAA Pushes Bill Across Finish Line Stephen A. Borg Unfortunately, throughout the years, some bad actors in Washington, D.C. have given all of us who work and live here a bad name. We are only out for ourselves, we are greedy, we have no morals, and of course…WE...
read moreSeptember 2018: Full Contact Project Management
Contractors have unique abilities, equipment and training to “see” things that almost no one else can. You can merely look at a set of plans and see, right then and there, if a proposed project will not work – even though it was designed by the expert architect or engineer.
read moreContractor Tip Of The Month: When You Lose Your Cool, You Lose the Game
When You Lose Your Cool, You Lose The Game Damian Lang We face situations daily that require us to react either calmly or intensely. It’s like playing two games simultaneously: You have to be able to recognize what is happening – and plenty is bound to happen – and...
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