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Informative articles on industrial & commercial construction, including air pollution control, safety measures, current market trends and more. Brought to you by Whitehead Construction, Inc.

Electrostatic Precipitator Collector Plates

One of the main components of an Electrostatic Precipitator (ESP) system is it’s collecting plates. Good ESP plates are able to attract and capture large quantities of industrial dust. WCi is…

Top Electrostatic Precipitator Questions

Each year, our website gets many questions about electrostatic precipitators. How do they work, what are the advantages, and what maintenance can be expected? We’ve rounded up the top questions received this year, and…

Four Reasons You Should Hire An Experienced Industrial Mechanic

Your industrial equipment is a major investment for your company. Don’t trust its installation, maintenance and repair to just any mechanic. An industrial mechanic, also known as a millwright…

Directional Boring Frequently Asked Questions

Directional boring is a great and cost-effective way to install underground utilities without having to clear land, dig trenches and upset workflows. The environmental advantages of…

The Science Behind Electrostatic Precipitators

Engineering, science and pollution control are some of our favorite topics. Here is a little background on a piece of equipment called an Electrostatic Precipitator, or ESP for short.…

Environmental Solutions Tailored to Your Needs

Construction of environmental handling systems requires expertise and knowledge beyond your typical contractor. Industrial and hazardous waste…

Conveyor System Maintenance

The conveyor system may be the most important machine on your property. Protect the lifeline of your business with proper conveyor maintenance before costly repairs are needed.…

How to control air pollution with baghouse filters

Options for pollution control technologies vary, but did you know that a baghouse filter system can capture 99% or more of particles, even when the particle size is tiny. These types of dust…

How the Biden administration might…

A new administration will be running the country in two months, and while there are many questions about how things will change, one thing is certain: A Biden presidency likely will be very different…

Will Biden continue Trump's construction-friendly…

The construction industry is wondering how the Biden administration will approach business regulations and the rollbacks that President Trump has put in place. Inauguration Day is right around the corner,…

Construction Is Booming Now but…

The U.S. construction market is booming with no signs of slowing down. According to the USG Corp. and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Commercial Construction Index, 93 percent of contractors expect to see…

Air pollution is already spiking…

Beijing — Air pollution in China has already bounced back from astounding lows during the country's coronavirus shutdown to monthly levels exceeding those recorded during the same period last year,…

WCI - US Construction, The Best…

If you are looking for a construction company that is dedicated to both excellence and consistency, look no further than WCI. Headquartered in Elizabethton, TN, WCI is a national general contracting and…

All You Need To Know About Industrial…

Commercial building projects are always large-scale jobs, but industrial production takes size and scope to any other level. These big undertakings layout, installation and maintain structures and components…

The Pros and Cons of Design-Build

For some time, the construction industry has been moving towards a design-build as a greater collaborative manner to deliver a project, one that allows contractors to integrate design into their practices.…

Growth For The Electrostatic Precipitator…

The rising ecological worries among worldwide populace has prompted the expansion in medical problems, in this way, has prompted the rising interest for the improved air contamination control frameworks…

What is Best Practice in Industrial…

The popular and planned practices observed in the creation industry in an effort to guarantee ideal outcome and income are regarded as fine practices in creation. These practices may be a coverage, procedure…

Is The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers…

Notwithstanding winning a spot on this most recent U.S. Army Corps of Engineers prequalified bidders list for the construction of the US-Mexico border wall, Fisher Sand and Gravel likewise scored another…

2020 Government Contracting Outlook

Trend 1. Increased National Defense Spending The Act provides $654.6 billion in both base and Global War on Terror/Overseas Contingency Operations funding – the largest year-to-year enlarge due to the…

Major Challenges Facing the Construction…

It's a fascinating time for the development industry. Growth has been strong for the last few years, with U.S. building spending now at an all-time high. Despite having weathered the storm of the Great…

The Importance of Safety in Industrial…

At WCI we care not only of doing a great job and deliver quality projects, we care about the process and that is why we effort to provide safe conditions to our work team to ensure that everything is…

Offering Industrial Construction…

WCI, (Whitehead Construction Inc.) has worked on a variety of industrial construction projects across the country. Whether you're planning to build for new project or an upgrade to your existing one,…

Pentagon to waive environmental…

The Pentagon's move is likely to spark a wave of lawsuits, although the Department of Homeland Security, which regularly waives environmental requirements for border wall projects, has come out ahead…

4 Tips To Improve Your Field Crew

As a construction challenge supervisor or enterprise owner, efficaciously managing your field crew plays a vital position when it comes to staying in budget and on schedule. But extra importantly than…

Differences Between Residential…

The world of construction includes a large number of activities that can be divided according to their purpose. There are the industrial type and the residential type, so it is important that you know…

Border Walls Are Huge Business!

The border between the United States and Mexico has a long and often turbulent history. The past shows the fact that after the Mexican American War in 1848, the Treaty of Peace, Limits, Friendship, and…

Veteran Company To Build Border…

Before considering why WCI is the perfect company to assist in building the US-Mexico wall, lets first examine what we know about the issue. The US-Mexico barrier which is known as the "Border Wall" is…

AIA Applauds New Legislative Framework…

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) applauds Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (Democrat-New Jersey), Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (Democrat-New…

Businessman transform loft into…

An aficionado of the 1930s-era American Mafia, Michael Whitehead claims he was born in the wrong era. And by the look of his two-bedroom loft, located inconspicuously above Overmountain Outdoors on Tipton…