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IronPlanet Breaks Record Staff, 5/25/2009
IronPlanet broke its record for the largest one-day auction on January 29 and sold $20.88 million of equipment. The new figure is a 10-percent increase over the company's previous one-day record of $18.97 million set in January 31, 2008. More than 15,000 visitors from 147 countries participated in the auction from more than 750 lots in 30 states. More
Equipment Exports Up 20% 05/18/2009
U.S. construction equipment exports rose 20% from 2007 to 2008 at more than $20.7 billion, according to the Association of Equipment Manufacturers. South America bought $3.3 billion of equipment, a 44% increase over 2007, and Asia took delivery of $3 billion worth of U.S. construction equipment, a 25% increase.
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Moving The Outdoors In Staff - 04/20/2009
In mid-February in Houston's Reliant Park, the air is thick with anticipation of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Many Texans make the trek to Houston every March as a rite of spring, but the Show is a truly international event. General attendance at the 2008 Show was more than 1.8 million people.
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Material Handling On Today's Job Sites By Steve Hudson - 04/15/2009
On today's construction sites, time is most assuredly money — and time spent handling construction materials ...
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Portland's Big Pipe Staff - 04/06/2009
The East Side Combined Sewer Outflow project in Portland is designed to significantly reduce the city's sewage and storm water overflows into the Willamette River. When completed in December 2011, it will collect and intercept overflows from 12 existing combined sewer outfalls that discharge to the river.
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Ritchie Brothers Expands Staff - 03/23/2009
On March 19, Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers held a ribbon-cutting grand opening at its newest site near Medford, MN, with an unreserved industrial equipment auction. The 120-acre site, at 6000 Frontage Road W., replaces the former 28-acre site in Lakeville, MN. The site has a new 30,653-square-foot building for refurbishing equipment and a 561-seat auction theater.
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California Builder and Engineer Loren Faulkner, Editor, California Builder & Engineer October 17, 2008 URGENT Request…
CARB is at it again...
Several California construction industry associations have be... More
Restoring The Bricks in Roswell An apartment building dating from almost 170 years ago is restored and expanded to create new residential space in an historic Atlanta suburb.
Restoring The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum The restoration of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City involved rebuilding the museum's Pier 86 into a state-of-the-art docking facility.
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