Our experience includes developing in-depth content for the following industries and business operations: construction, energy production, environmental stewardship, healthcare, and refuse. For examples of our communications capabilities, click the links below.
  

The Concrete Producer magazine - Construction industry

Admixtures: The Niche Generation. Manufacturers focus on new concepts to improve concrete
durability, workability, appearance, and other properties

Batter Up: North America's top 100 concrete producers

The Best-kept Secret to High-performance Concrete? Highly reactive rice-hull ash provides durability benefits in various environments. But who will take the lead in marketing RHA?

The Calculation Factory: Optimization systems for dispatching and mix design

CliffsNotes for Concrete: Phoenix-area producers systematically increase specifiers' concrete knowledge with a concise manual and "show and tell"



Delivery Optimizers: Tag-along forklifts improve customer service and help producers get the most out of their delivery truck fleets



Finding Greener Grass and Using Information Byproducts:***Winner, American Society of Business Publication Editors Midwest Region 2001 Awards Competition, Editorial Excellence, Regular Column, Staff Written, under 80,000 Circulation Bronze Award***

GGBF Slag in Concrete Helps Hold up Some History: Bridge pier work in St. Paul, Minn., reveals the benefit of the material’s production of a lower heat of hydration

How to Avoid Hiring Someone Else’s Problem: Driver recruitment is as important as training in unique ‘Growing Your Own’ hiring approach

New Evidence of Fire Resistance in Blended CMUs: Recent research confirms that producers can blend lightweight and normal-weight aggregate in their block mix designs and achieve required fire ratings.



Patience, Schmatience: Streamlining the submittal process is one application of a new project collaboration service.



Safe Havens: Concrete safe rooms save lives when nature's fury is at its deadliest.

Control Design magazine - Industrial Machine Automation

Confluence of Influences: As Machine Control and the Global Business Environment Increase in Complexity, Both High- and Low-Priced Producers Must Customize Their Business Approaches to Geographic Markets


Performance Demands Spur Motor Advances: Smaller Size, More Power and Efficiency Mean Advantages for Machine Builders and Industrial Manufacturers


Prototyping of the Virtual Type: Digital Simulation Tools Can Integrate Functional Areas of Design, Improve Product Quality, Maximize Throughput and Reduce Time to Market


Signal Variables Shape Wireless: Infrastructure Hardware and Transmission Frequency Depend Largely on Transmission Speed, Amount of Data, Distance and Obstructions

Solid-State Relays Enhance Reliability: SSRs Equipment and PLCs Have Changed Over the Years, Find Out How

Step Into a Niche: Stepper Motor Performance Reveals a Suitability for High-Speed Applications That Require Significant Precision

Distributed Energy magazine - Energy production

A Choice in Emissions Reduction: Dry low NOx combustion is the cost-effective environmental solution for a plant retrofit in the increasingly restrictive Houston area.



Big-Picture Retrofitting: An engineering team improves one university’s cooling and heating efficiency by focusing on several buildings’ impact on the distribution network.


Continuous Improvement: Cooling equipment manufacturers unveil their latest technological advancements.

Daily Supplements: Alaska energy co-op sees diesel prices reach the economic feasibility threshold and welcomes the winds of change.


Data Centers and DG: IT facilities, which are making great strides in improving energy efficiency, are a natural fit for onsite power generation.


Environmental Protection of a Different Kind: Noise attenuation can be a complex engineering challenge. The marketplace is responding to stricter regulatory and market-oriented specifications.

Extreme Makeover: Healthcare Edition: An award-winning hospital upgrades cooling, laundry, and waste disposal to the tune of millions in energy savings.

The Focus on Energy Security: The latest initiative to increase US energy self-sufficiency includes a role for distributed generation. 


High-IQ HVAC: Intelligent control and monitoring systems allow facility owners to optimize energy use and achieve quick ROI.

IEEE 1547 Evolution Continues: With the interconnection standard federally mandated, utilities and providers of distributed generation work toward implementation at the local level to increase DG penetration.

If CHP Can Make it in New York...: A midtown Manhattan office building's onsite cogeneration system provides improved efficiency and reliability—and, just as importantly, is in sync with the local network grid.

Mission Critical?—Mission Possible: Backup power at a lumber processing company is key to its lean-manufacturing processes.

On the Clean Cutting Edge: Planned Illinois plant should serve as a reference for coal-gasification benefits for future coal facilities.


Ready for Prime Time: New engines address tightening emissions regulations, bridging the gap between prime and standby power demands.

Erosion Control magazine - Environmental engineering industry

Different Approaches, Same Outcome: With the benefit of experience, contractors have developed effective methods for ESC on construction sites.

Soil Stabilization to Scale: Public and commercial projects demonstrate the versatility of retaining walls.



Grading & Excavation Contractor magazine - Construction industry

Bright Ideas: The contractor has more lighting and auxiliary power choices than ever—often in one unit.


Business Diversification Tools: Grapples and shears allow contractors to enter the business of site preparation and increase machine utilization.


Excavator-Specific Control: Pinpointing bucket location with GNSS is a challenging proposition for excavators, but providers are responding with high-tech solutions.


Increasing the Intensity of Night: As night work promises to become more common, changes may be coming to generally standardized lighting equipment.

Kings of the Road: Heavy-duty truck chassis and trailers used to haul equipment to the job site are machines of means


Lubrication: Where Automation Makes Sense: Automatic lubrication systems can be a key component of a heavy-equipment operation's preventive maintenance program.

Quantum Shift: GPS technology has significantly increased productivity. Contractors say the impacts on their businesses are positive, as long as they respect the complexity of the tasks that it handles.

Room for Improvement: Progress has been made in reducing fatalities from cave-ins in recent years, but more must be done—and there is no shortage of protection systems and training resources for the task.


Two Machines In One: The backhoe-loader offers versatility fore and aft, so choosing the right machine for the job may require twice as much time.

MSW Management magazine - Refuse industry

The Art of Specs: Advances in components are allowing fleet managers to maximize effective operation and profitability in refuse haulers. 


The Automation Ideal: Will full automation of collection and operational and financial information eventually become the industry standard? What factors should be considered prior to making the transition?

A Balancing Act: Transfer trailer specifiers seek equilibrium between payload capacity and durability in an attempt to maximize profitable hauling.

Complete Automation in Reach: Several haulers find that advances in equipment are increasing their profitability and putting them a step closer to complete automation.


Fuel for a Green Economy: Processors find reasons to be optimistic about the short- and long-term prospects for the C&D refuse market sector.

Information Is Profitability: Capturing weight data as quickly as possible—and integrating it with accounting data—can improve throughput, profitability, and strategic decision-making ability.


More Than Dozers With Wheels: Compactors are getting more technologically sophisticated—and landfills are utilizing them profitably.


Making a Haul Profitably: With margin pressures greater than ever, haulers learn what transfer trailer configurations work best for their specific operations.


Next-Generation Optimization: As computerized route-mapping and vehicle-location systems become more sophisticated, so do the MSW managers who are gaining customer-service and profitability benefits from their use.


Taking Exceptions: Trucks and equipment that maximize collection productivity demonstrate that semiautomated and manual methods still have their place-and full automation isn't always feasible.


Tools of the Collection Trade: Advancements in equipment are continually improving efficiency and ergonomics alike.

Midwest Construction magazine - Construction

Missouri, Illinois Design-Build Projects: Road Contractors Head Down a New Highway. 


School Design Trends: Smaller = Better Students, Academics

Onsite Water Treatment magazine - Environmental stewardship

Effluent in Flowage: Consider factors such as impeller type, input rate, head requirements, and dispersion distance when choosing and sizing a septic pump.

Model Citizens: High-rises in Manhattan’s Battery Park City are ahead of the curve in residential water treatment and reuse. 

Unconventional Stewardship: Membrane filtration systems play a major role in environmental certification and public relations at convention centers in Vancouver and Pittsburgh.

Working in the Bugs to Solve Difficult Site Problems: Secondary treatment and drip-irrigation systems successfully remedy a Denver-area shopping center's environmental challenges.

Produce Merchandising magazine

Locally grown, locally known
 

Rock Products magazine - Construction industry

Big tires in short supply

Maximizing Productivity


Who Owns Whom



Stormwater magazine - Environmental stewardship

Better Defined, More Strictly Enforced: Experience at the local level indicates stormwater system maintenance is gaining greater attention.


Salt: No Easy Answers: There’s no substitute yet for road deicing salt, but local efforts are providing guidance for mitigating its ecological effects.

Water Efficiency magazine - Environmental stewardship

Complexity Control: As water conservation managers strive to optimize irrigation scheduling, online system monitoring helps them manage increases in variables.

Conservation via Persuasion: Southern California water districts, homebuilders unite to launch unique pilot program that helps ensure adequate residential water supplies.


A Conservation and Cost Win-Win: A water treatment system in Mankato, MN, saves the city nearly 700 million gallons of water annually—and a power plant owner millions.

See No Evil, Hear Evil: Acoustic detection technology can convert "Out-of-Sight, Out-of-Mind" attitudes about leaks into proactive ones.

Techno-nential Gains: AMR technologies offer gigantic improvements in staff productivity, customer service, and systemwide monitoring capability.

Two Constraints, One Solution: Large-scale water-reclamation systems are allowing owners to address environmental and financial challenges at the same time.