Commercial and residential builders love new technology that can improve the quality of their projects, but not all of that technology goes into building materials. This week, our most popular news feed item dealt with a pair of glasses that comes with a built-in camera. Evidently, we weren't the only ones who saw their potential.
Legal and structural issues attracted plenty of eyes, as well, though. A proposed septic rule in Maryland and news about construction spending numbers showed up among the week's most read posts. Check them all out and see what you missed below:
- Camera built into sunglasses records what you see on video—Eight megapixels of resolution and eight gigabytes of data make the eyewear from Pivothead a hands-free way to record site visits.
- Is your billing based on a real project-completion percentage or a guess?—It may seem obvious, but knowing the completion percentage of a project based on accurate numbers from the field can be critical to cash flow.
- Proposed Md. septic rule would raise water quality, home prices—New rules being talked about by Maryland regulators would drastically reduce nitrogen going into Chesapeake Bay.
- Construction spending best since December 2009, but no thanks to public sector—Private construction looks like it is back in gear, but public sector spending continues to lag.
- Cold-process asphalt is cool environmentally, economically—Grinding once-used asphalt and mixing it with an emulsion means fewer fumes and less spending.
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