Chairman's Message We Have Some Movement Very shortly after my Chairman’s Message calling for more water infrastructure funding hit the streets in March, clean water legislation was introduced in the House. Read More	Inside Washington Out of Sight Can No Longer Afford to Be Out of Mind  There is not a business, small or large, in America that can survive, let alone grow, without access to the water, electricity and gas delivered by America’s aging and sometimes failing infrastructure. Read More	Subscribe Renew or Update My FREE subscription today for Utility Contractor, as well as sign up for our bi-weekly newsletter. Sign up now.

Brokk Updates its 400 Remote-Controlled Demolition Machine
The upgraded Brokk 400 remote-controlled demolition machine now features a bigger drive axis, rollers and sidetracks along with a larger undercarriage with tracks that are 10 percent longer. What does all of this mean The redesigned machine...
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Doosan Contest Winner Receives One-Year Lease on Machine
Doosan Infracore Construction Equipment America recently announced the winner of its CONEXPO-CON AGG trade show Win a One-Year Lease contest. Ryan Domres of Phoenix has been awarded a one-year lease on a Doosan DL250-3 wheel loader....
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New Bobcat Brushcat Rotary Cutters with Shorter Deck Length
The new Brushcat rotary cutter attachments from Bobcat Co. provide excellent cutting performance, durable components and several safety features. These attachments are designed to help compact equipment operators cut overgrown grass, brush and small...
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Cover Story

The Many Faces of NUCA 2014 Convention
The NUCA Convention is a time for recognizing individuals and chapter members and staff for their hard work and commitment to their industry and the association. Their participation keeps NUCA strong and improves our ability to provide top-notch industry advocacy and benefits valuable to all members. Read more

Utilities Unearthed
With more than 19 million miles of buried utilities in the United States, there are plenty of obstacles to navigate around when performing an excavation project. While services such as One-Call are a great starting point at identifying a utility’s location, exposing a utility is the only sure way to know where that valuable infrastructure truly lies. Read more

Featured Stories

The Gold Standard
For the past 50 years, the National Utility Contractors Association (NUCA) has been the leading trade association working solely for the utility construction and excavation industry. Read more

Expert Vacuum Excavation
More and more, contractors are turning to vacuum excavators to clean and remove debris created from boring projects and locating utilities. Read more

Vacuum Excavation Showcase
Vacuum excavation helps contractors safely identify a utility’s location, saving on costly damage or downtime. Here, four manufacturers highlight their vacuum excavation units. Read more

Map Quest
Buried beneath your feet is a complex system of subsurface utilities, silently supplying power and connectivity to your home, neighborhood, office, farm and every city in between. Read more

Building a Better System
Unlike service and warehouse industries, construction has many variables and moving parts. Materials of many kinds. Equipment of every sort. Main and satellite jobsites. Read more

Inside Washington

Out of Sight Can No Longer Afford to Be Out of Mind
There is not a business, small or large, in America that can survive, let alone grow, without access to the water, electricity and gas delivered by America’s aging and sometimes failing infrastructure. Read more

Safety

What is DIRT?
As utility and excavation contractors, we all know what dirt is because it is the soil we dig in all the time. However, there is another definition of dirt; one that is very important to our industry and every contractor should be familiar with it. DIRT is actually the acronym for Damage Information Reporting Tool. Read more