added value to customers who are looking to buy top quality
niche steel products with better options for contractors
looking for specific products and services that meet their
unique needs.
In addition to its path to vertical integration with production
of rolled and welded casing as well as pipe and structural
fabrication, JD Fields is breaking ground in Houston on a new
state-of-the-art spiral weld pipe mill that will produce unique
heavy wall structural pipe to serve DOT highway, USACE
marine and private port/civil sectors. The downstream
value-added capabilities of R&W casing, coatings, pipe and
specialty beam fabrication will firmly position the mill as a
low cost, high quality producer.
With 120 years of combined experience, the Fields and
Alameda companies have each earned their reputations in
the industry as leading steel suppliers and manufacturers,
respectively, by investing in industry experts with unique
skillsets. The merger will only drive value to their new and
existing customers in the steel, oil and gas, infrastructure
and transportation industries with diversified construction
products and oilfield service divisions as well as combined
financial and human resources.
The merged entity will continue operating privately as one
of the leanest and highest revenue per employee distributors,
fabricators and manufacturing companies in the industry.
Chris Risso, the former president of Alameda, will join JD
Fields as senior vice-president of regional sales. Risso will
work in tandem with the company’s highly specialized and
technically versed sales income producers who will continue
managing their own divisions.
This acquisition is the start of the professed goal of the
Fields companies to be one of the top material resources in the
world for domestic and international infrastructure projects.
ALL Crane announces Shared Equipment Program
Today’s construction jobsites are evolving, and project
owners demand partner companies that embrace new methods
to drive down costs without negatively impacting quality.
It is with this in mind that the ALL Family of Companies
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announces its Shared Equipment Program (SEP), a new
approach to equipment rental that can shave millions of dollars
and many months off construction projects.
Here’s how it works: a project’s general contractor acts as
the primary renter of all lift equipment for the job and then
rents it to the subcontractors – a method that helps to eliminate
waste, cut costs, improve productivity and create positive
outcomes. More than just equipment, the project also gets
support from the ALL team, including mechanics who conduct
regular maintenance to keep machines in “rent-ready”
condition as they change hands between subcontractors.
When multiple subcontractors arrange for their own
equipment, depending on the job site, the ALL Family of
Companies’ SEP can eliminate redundancy and waste, which
can be as much as one-third of total project costs. Equipment
redundancy does more than add costs – it adds a level of
congestion to job sites where space is a premium, which can
affect everything from traffic to safety. The SEP addresses all
of these concerns, as ALL works with the general contractor
to maximize efficient usage of lift equipment.
ALL developed SEP to reinforce its unique blend of
resources afforded to general contractors, including a broad
continental footprint and an extensive and varied fleet. The
program works best when all subcontractors have ready
access to equipment that meets their needs, from steelworkers
who may require hefty all-terrain equipment to painting
and electrical contractors whose finishing work requires
access equipment like scissor lifts. ALL’s equipment lineup
includes crane types as small and versatile as mini/spider
cranes or as large as 900-ton ATs and 1,000-ton crawlers, plus
tower cranes, boom lifts/aerials/MEWPs and boom trucks.
Beyond these extensive equipment resources, the company
has the experience and willingness to collaborate both
initially and then ongoing, which helps make the equipmentsharing
process successful. ALL has already executed projects
using SEP, saving project owners tens of millions of dollars
and helping to complete projects months ahead of schedule.
To find out how ALL’s Shared Equipment Program
can help your jobsite, visit www.allcrane.com/
sharedequipmentprogram.
COVID-19 economic shock will cause global
construction output to shrink by 1.4 per cent in 2020
As a result of the severe economic shock caused by the lockdown
measures imposed by governments around the world
to contain the spread of COVID-19, global construction
output is expected to contract by 1.4 per cent in 2020, according
to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.
Danny Richards, lead economist at GlobalData said,
“Although the construction industry has in some cases been
exempt from restrictions on business activity, few major
markets will manage to record an increase in construction
output in 2020.”
Before the COVID-19 outbreak, the global construction
industry had been expected to grow by 3.1 per cent. This
was initially revised down to just 0.5 per cent in late March
based on a review of the impact of COVID-19 at that point.
However, in view of the rapidly evolving nature of the pandemic
and the more drastic measures being taken to contain
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