As developers seek methods for reducing the impacts of their projects on the natural environment, the contractors who work for them are doing the same thing. In Mount Vernon, Wash., contractor Plats ...

Earth Max Construction, a contracting company sitting atop Stony Mountain, Manitoba, Canada, is gaining ground in a niche earthmoving market working for rural municipalities’ public works departments.

The choice of floor scraper — whether a ride-on or a walk-behind machine — is critical, but it’s easy to overlook the blade, or shank. It’s a common misconception that scraper is delivered ready to go ...

Starting with this column, we’ll be going in a different direction. Instead of looking into the history of construction machines and their manufacturers, we’ll be exploring how these machines were ...