Equipment: It's the air you breathe How does one accurately introduce the construction industry to an equipment guide? We may as well extol the benefits of food, the positives of clothing or the wonders of the very air we breathe. It's kind of a conundrum - everybody knows how important these things are, but they're such basic life staples that it's tough to get a handle on. Go to Story	Construction lab will showcase cutting-edge equipment Contractors teleporting themselves to job sites may be a few years away, but they still can profit from an array of inventive building materials that accelerate and improve construction. If these new insulation systems - wall components and fuel cells, to name a few - had a home it would be at the Forest Products Laboratory in Madison. The lab's homebuilding researchers are testing new products for a demonstration house. Go to Story	The virtual handshake: As the industry integrates computers and the Internet into its day-to-day operations, one of the most fundamental aspects of construction has found a home on the Web. Several companies in recent years launched sites for contractors to buy, sell and bid on used construction equipment, and it's a method of doing business that proponents said saves time, energy and, most important, money. Go to Story

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