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MindForge and Pepper Construction receive Honorable Mention in the AGC Innovation Awards! AGC decided to make the Innovation Awards an annual award to incentivize and encourage free thinkers to provide pioneering solutions to industry challenges.
Pepper steers safety efforts in a new direction. The product engineering and collaboration hub serves as a venue that showcases new technology and product development efforts. To deliver a cutting-edge facility, Pepper had to provide a few of our own innovative solutions.
Reaching more than 600 feet high, the Rhodes State Office Tower is the tallest building in Columbus, Ohio. Built in 1974, the tower houses 2,600 state employees. The 41-story building is clad in thousands of large granite panels.
Because construction's suicide rate is 3.5 times the national average, MindForge partnered with the Construction Industry Alliance for Suicide Prevention, LivingWorks and Jordan Foster Construction to offer a free suicide-prevention education program.
Fluid workforces like construction teams often face daily work stoppages. Things like last-minute changes to parking, an unexpected shortage of supplies, or delayed shipments seem like normal, insignificant distractions. But when this lost time is added up, it could cost a jobsite up to 50 percent of its productive time each day.
General contractors and superintendents are constantly looking for ways to stay on budget and complete their projects on time, while simultaneously empowering their team to be safe and efficient. With a dozen variables from one project to the next, traditional communication and training methods might hinder a team rather than empower it.
What are some of the most pressing challenges and opportunities facing the construction industry in 2021? New research from FMI Corp. and MindForge aims to answer this question. The recently conducted research helps us better understand where technology can make the biggest impact in helping contractors achieve the highest levels of performance success, and the insights demonstrate technology’s role in achieving operations excellence.
How do you keep people safe and productive? It's an age-old question that demands a forward-looking response. One of the biggest challenges we see in our industry is companies and tradespeople sacrificing safety to meet schedule and production demands. At Pepper, we've been active in trying to get people in the industry to change that mindset.
Whether it's on the front lines of a battlefield, a supply chain or a construction site, culture is a fundamental aspect of human existence. Culture keeps us bonded to groups of people – whether it's within the context of our families, our communities or even our workplaces – and allows us to establish similar understandings and motivations behind what we do and how we should do it.
Construction is consistently ranked one of the riskiest industries in America, with the Bureau of Labor Statistics reporting more than 1,000 workplace fatalities and 150,000 injuries every year. A contributing factor to the construction industry's risk is the natural fluidity of its workforce.
In life, culture keeps us bonded to groups of people—whether it’s in the context of our families, our communities or even our workplaces—and allows us to establish similar understandings and motivations behind what we do and how we should do it.
MindForge VP and co-founder Shahin Aftabizadeh discusses with Pepper Construction's Ben Ross how to use technology to improve training and protect your people and bottom line during the Indiana Safety & Health Conference.
MindForge co-founders Stokes McIntyre and Shahin Aftabizadeh discuss how their jobsite communications platform works across smartphones and other devices to everyone involved with the construction project, even if they aren’t on your payroll.
In life, culture keeps us bonded to groups of people—whether it’s in the context of our families, our communities or even our workplaces—and allows us to establish similar understandings and motivations behind what we do and how we should do it.
Making the right decision in high pressure, dangerous situations goes beyond training; it has to be a mindset that’s easily accessible and quickly deployed. Those on the frontline — both in the military and the construction industry — often have one split second to make a decision that prevents serious injuries and fatalities.
Construction was recently listed in the top 10 most dangerous jobs in America by CNBC. So when it comes to day-to-day operations, what can construction managers do to ensure workers receive the information they need to produce quality work and stay safe on the job?
For the past eight months, Berglund has worked closely with MindForge as part of a design partner program to test innovative ways to use the technology company’s new behavior-based training platform on one of our construction projects.