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Investors have contributed to the rise in home prices and the lack of inventory by purchasing homes and turning them into rental properties. U.S. single-family properties reached a record high in July despite the Fed’s long series of aggressive interest rate increases since March 2022.  Homes have been the only corner of the real estate market that has increased in value in the last year. Commercial real estate has fallen 16% since March 2022. Offices […]

The way you interact with your JLG machines is changing. JLG’s solution to interacting with your machinery via an API or a web portal was called ClearSky. It was a telematics system that communicated one way, sending information from the machine to a device. It was not capable of sending data to the machine. And it was not supported by a mobile app. Earlier this year, JLG announced the launch of ClearSky Smart Fleet.  We’ll […]

OSHA’s “Fatal Four” in the construction industry are widely known: falls, being struck by objects, electrocutions and being caught in/between objects. However, according to the CDC, there is an even bigger killer in the industry than all four of the “Fatal Four” put together, and it is finally gaining more attention.  Each year, more than five times as many workers die by suicide than all other job fatalities put together. The Culture Mental health issues […]

Today, 3D reality capture of buildings is important for creating virtual models. The technology helps large contractors with quality control and project management.  At the moment, smaller contractors don’t have as many uses for 3D capture, but could it eventually be used for almost every project? Drones have been used for monitoring and surveying construction sites for a while now, but the newest drones or UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) have much greater capability. In this […]