The Hilti Group increased sales by 4.3 percent in 2019 to CHF 5.9 billion amid a challenging economic and currency environment.

Hilti has acquired substantially all of the assets of Concrete Sensors, a provider of connected (i.e., “smart”) devices, software and services that help enable improved decision making and accelerated construction schedules through better understanding of the concrete curing process.

In the highly competitive world of the walls and ceilings trade, all efficiencies that can be gained—from the takeoff process through the project build-out—begins with a high-quality bid. 

AMES Taping Tools, the leading provider of automatic taping and finishing (ATF) tools, supplies, and training to the professional drywall finishing 
industry, is pleased to announce today the acquisition of the leading online drywall tool & supply provider, All-Wall.

As one of the premier rental equipment companies in North America, Sunbelt Rentals has an extensive equipment fleet that exceeds $10 billion across its more than 900 rental locations. Managing and disposing assets from a fleet of this size is not easy work, so Sunbelt turned to Ritchie Bros. and its RB Asset Solutions technology to help it better manage, analyze, and redeploy its assets.

Finding new software for your construction business can be overwhelming. If you’re in the market for the right estimating software, you are looking for the fastest, more accurate tools to help you calculate labor and materials.

If you’re like a lot of busy contractors in the walls and ceilings industry, every day can be bid day if you’re working up multiple bids at the same time. 

Obtaining insurance for construction industry risks is going to be more difficult over the next year. 

Resilience is a newer design concern within the construction industry. With the apparent increase in natural disasters, such as hurricanes and wildfires, the desire for more resilient buildings is on many people’s minds. However, what is resilience and how do gypsum panel products factor into this new way of thinking?

If your job involves bidding, winning, and building, you may have a hard time imagining how work ever got done before mobile devices—back in the early 2000s. In the wake of the iPhone launch 12 years ago, mobile devices like smartphones and tablets have become as common as hardhats on the jobsite.