Category: Featured
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Garden Rooms & Pods: UK’s Fastest-Growing Home Upgrade 2025
In recent years, home upgrades have taken a major turn towards the outdoors, and one of the fastest-growing trends in the UK is the installation of garden rooms and pods. These versatile structures offer homeowners additional living space in their backyards, blending functionality with style. Whether you need a home office, gym, or a space…
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Garden Rooms & Pods: UK’s Fastest-Growing Home Upgrade 2025
In recent years, home upgrades have taken a major turn towards the outdoors, and one of the fastest-growing trends in the UK is the installation of garden rooms and pods. These versatile structures offer homeowners additional living space in their backyards, blending functionality with style. Whether you need a home office, gym, or a space…
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How LED Lighting Boosts Productivity and Mood Indoors
The Crucial Role of Office Lighting Office lighting is more than just making things visible. It really shapes how people feel and work. Think about it: bad lighting can make you feel tired and grumpy, right? Good lighting, though, can make a big difference in how productive everyone is. It’s a big deal for the…
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SAKAI America Builds 1,000th SV544 Soil Compactor in Georgia
SAKAI America has produced its 1,000th SV544 soil compactor at its Adairsville, Georgia, plant. The milestone unit, an SV544TBCF with a padfoot drum, blade, cab and removable smooth shell, is headed to Power Motive, a dealer in the western United States. The SV544, introduced in 2017 to replace the SV540 series, is an 84-inch compactor…
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An Expanding Concrete Economy | For Construction Pros
If there was a word for 2025’s concrete contractor industry, “uncertainty” would fit. As more and more data centers are needed, we found a boom in tilt-up and warehouse construction as well as infrastructure work — while other areas experienced some shrinkage. We connected with a group of insiders from throughout the concrete industry for…
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Skanska buoyed by insights from OpenSpace reality capture data
Jeevan Kalanithi, co-founder and CEO of OpenSpace, added: “For years, reality capture has been treated as a nice-to-have – useful for documentation or dispute resolution. With today’s launch, we are moving beyond reality capture and redefining reality data as a strategic asset that simplifies workflows and fuels results, from the field to the C-suite. We…
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Hensel Phelps nabs $700M Idaho airport contract
Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Award: Boise Airport improvement projectValue: $700 millionLocation: Boise, IdahoClient: City of Boise Hensel Phelps is adding another airport project to its portfolio — the city of Boise, Idaho, tapped the builder for its Concourse A and Terminal…
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Sodium-ion battery maker Natron Energy shuts down, halts $1.4B factory plans
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Sodium-ion battery manufacturer Natron Energy has ceased operations, according to its website, halting plans for a giant factory in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. The Santa Clara, California-based company did not immediately respond to requests for…
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Construction Dive’s August 2025 economic roundup
Backlog grew according to the latest data, fueled by infrastructure contracts and a wave of data center activity. But signs of stress are emerging beneath the surface. Input prices are still climbing due to recently imposed tariffs. More than 80% of contractors have received supplier notices of higher prices in recent weeks, according to Associated…
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California PAGA Reform: How Employers Can Stay Compliant With Meal and Rest Break Laws
California is well-known for having some of the most rigorous labor requirements in the United States, especially concerning employee meal and rest breaks. These regulations have been in place for over two decades, but recent legislative changes raise the stakes for non-compliance. As of July 1, 2024, California reformed its Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA),…