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The special report, “Construction’s Silent Killer,” examined why the construction industry has the highest rate of suicide and what can be done about it.

The team took home awards for Best Website, Best Series and Best Feature. The Dirt Host Bryan Furnace also won Best Individual Social Media Presence.

Equipment World  in which collectors of antique construction equipment and construction models talk about their favorite finds. If you’ve got a special piece of vintage equipment or a model you’d like featured, email Don McLoud at Bob Kelly was covered with soot sitting on a bale of straw when he first heard about the old steam shovel sitting on a farm at the end of a dead-end road. He was tired and hot from working on his Erie B steam shovel at a Historical Construction Equipment Associa...

Jim Carter operates his 1968 Koehring 305 crawler crane Jim Carter operates his 1968 Koehring 305 at a Historical Construction Equipment Association convention in Bowling Green, Ohio. Editor’s note:  Equipment World  in which collectors of antique construction equipment and construction models talk about their favorite finds. If you’ve got a special piece of vintage equipment or a model you’d like featured, email Don McLoud at Jim Carter found his favorite piece of antique construction...

Now that 2020 is basically a known quantity, Equipment World editors reached back to several of the contractors we talked with this spring with one basic question: what happened? We learned that 2020 was far from a universal experience. Read on. Rick Goodmanson Roseville, Minnesota “It was a wild ride, that’s for sure,” Rick Goodmanson says. “This year has been the most difficult of my career – No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3, probably all together.” In March, the commercial concrete and as...