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Tradition &
Technology
American-born Joe Waugh first visited New Brunswick in 1970
after hearing raves about the province in his native New England. It took
only a couple of visits before the young builder began looking for a piece
of land on Canada's east coast...
TOOLS: Re-invention & Innovation
By Jon Eakes
It is that time of year again when the editor asks me to put together the
most interesting things I have discovered about tools recently. ... Here are
some things that I think you may find very interesting for your sites.
Safety Gear
New safety equipment may help reverse rising accident rates in new home construction...
Work Trucks: Battle
of the Brutes
Contractors looking to replace the pickup this year will find one word defining
the new truck market: power. The new models from the Big Three, plus Toyota
and Nissan, have put the emphasis squarely on brute performance in the toughest,
most versatile street legal trucks that have ever wheeled onto a construction
site...
Client communication
means more than technology
The unwanted towel bars and mangled eavestroughs are not the problem. It's
the four voice mails, three e-mails, two faxes and one nasty letter that the
frustrated customer had to send while waiting seven weeks to hear back from
the builder. That is the problem.
It's all about communication…
Computers in construction
- Fighting spam and viruses
When the Customer Respect Group, a U.S.-based consulting firm, attempted to
evaluate the Web sites of the world's largest high-tech companies this year,
32 per cent of the companies didn't respond to on-line inquiries... Sound
familiar?
