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The “Next Normal”: Construction Industry Trends That Are Here to Stay

Dan Duszynski
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  While the pandemic wreaked havoc on supply chains and production output in mining, manufacturing, and construction it also provided an impetus for some long-delayed innovation. Even before Covid 19 reared its ugly head, the industrial world faced the ongoing challenges that continue to this day in the way of…
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Associated General Contractors Say Biden Policies Adding to US Infrastructure Crisis

Dan Duszynski
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  The civil construction infrastructure sector is looking at a mass exodus of construction workers, with the Brookings Institute forecasting a yearly exit from the industry at 1.5 million workers per year, every year, over the next decade according to a June 16, 2020 article by Construction Equipment Guide correspondent…
Mining Industry Forecast Fiscal 2021-2022
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Fitch Solutions Report Pegs Fiscal Year 2021-2022 as an “Exceptional Year of Earnings” for Miners

Dan Duszynski
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  With the disruptions of the Covid 19 shutdowns in the mining industry through the 2019-2020 period behind us, global miners can count on continued “sky-high” profits in the fiscal year 2021-2022. That’s according to a new report from the investment risk research and global market analysis firm, Fitch Solutions.…
Construction Materials Lumber Prices
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Pipelines, Politics, and the Construction Materials Price Spikes

Dan Duszynski
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  Thanks to the current White House resident, the US construction industry is rolling through a perfect storm of construction material price spikes that some might think is an intentional assault on what would otherwise be a thriving economic sector.  Already depressed by the government overreach that culminated in the…
Clean Coal CO2 Capture
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The Decline of Clean Coal R&D Funding and the Pitfalls of Politically Driven Energy Policies

Dan Duszynski
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  In a previous article Resource Erectors highlighted Elon Musk’s $100 million and $20 million XPRIZEs as motivation for the development of innovative CO2 capturing technology. The winning projects involved a coal-fired power plant and an LNG facility, where CO2 was captured at the stacks and injected to make concrete…
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Coal, Concrete, the Zero-Carbon Cure, and Musk’s $100 Million XPRIZE

Dan Duszynski
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  An April 2021 Associated Press report posted at Power Engineering announced the latest first prize winners of Elon Musk’s $20 million XPRIZE. $15 million (with the other $5 million going to promising runners up) was split between two of the most unlikely candidates (from the green-minded environmentalist point of…
Blue Gas Green Energy
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The Green Energy Grab 2021: Blue Gas, Industrial Wind Mills, and a Lot of Hot Air

Dan Duszynski
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  There’s no getting away from the powerful influence on industries of the politically driven rush to replace fossil fuel, coal, and other traditional “carbon-emitting” energy sources with an “all-electric” power grid.  After decades under the legislative green thumb of what many are now recognizing as nothing less than “radical…

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