READERS' CHOICE:10 Top 10 tools

摘要

Every product writeup in every issue of Public Works includes a reader service number (i.e., "Circle 1"). Bound into each issue are two postcards labeled "FREE INFORMATION." Even in the age of the Internet, you regularly circle products' corresponding number on the "reader service card" and mail in these postage-paid requests for more information from the manufacturer. We publish hundreds of product announcements every year. Most explain how a company's enhanced an existing product, but some represent true innovation. The design is completely new to the market, say; or the product deploys a new material — plastic instead of concrete or metal pipe, for example.