Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Tue June 18, 2019
UA's $57M 'Success District' Aims to Support Students
Future students at the University of Arizona will reap the benefits of an area designed purely to ensure their achievement. Work began earlier this year on the Tucson campus of the Student Success District, a project that entails connecting three existing buildings and constructing one new building....
Katherine Devlin – CEG Editorial Assistant - Tue June 18, 2019
USDOT Announces $21M for Projects at 17 Airports in Arizona
On June 5, the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) announced more than $840M in grants awarded by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to improve infrastructure at airports throughout the country....
Arizona Department of Transportation - Tue June 18, 2019
Four ADOT Projects Receive Partnering Excellence Awards
To address pavement damage from many harsh winters, the Arizona Department of Transportation engaged a contractor to rebuild a total of 10 mi. of Interstate 40 west of Williams near Devil Dog Road. In addition to the complexity of removing and replacing 5 mi....
Arizona Department of Transportation - Tue June 18, 2019
ADOT Extends I-11 Draft EIS Comment Period to July 8
Additional information that is part of the draft environmental document for the proposed Interstate 11 corridor, stretching from Nogales to Wickenburg, has been released. To provide sufficient time for community review of the entire draft environmental impact statement, the public comment period has been extended to July 8, providing a full 90 days of review from the draft's initial release....
Arizona Department of Transportation - Tue June 18, 2019
Last Girder Set for South Mountain Freeway Interchange in West Phoenix
Two years after construction began on an interchange connecting Interstate 10 and the Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway, crews have placed the final bridge girders needed for this huge Arizona Department of Transportation project in west Phoenix....
Arizona Department of Transportation - Tue June 18, 2019
ADOT SMF Update: Construction Progresses Along 59th Avenue
With all bridge girders in place, frontage road construction under way and an overpass built over railroad tracks, among other milestones, Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway construction continues advancing along the 59th Avenue alignment south of Interstate 10 (Papago Freeway) in west Phoenix....
Vermeer Southwest - Wed May 22, 2019
Vermeer Southwest Opens New Facility in Tucson, Arizona
Vermeer Southwest re-organized its senior leadership roles with the announcement of an expansion into Tucson. This new structure will create a consistency among locations to better serve and equip its current and future customers while giving them a local, committed presence in the Tucson marketplace....
Caroline Schweitzer – HITACHI BREAKOUT MAGAZINE - Tue May 21, 2019
How the First Hitachi EX1200-7 in North America Leads the Way for Rango Inc.
When the new EX1200-7 excavator rolled onto a Rango Inc. job site, there was an energy you could feel in the air. Not only had they received a new EX1200-7, but it was the first Dash-7 to be delivered and digging on North American ground....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Tue May 21, 2019
ADOT Oversees $50M Project to Improve Interchanges
Described as a project that will help move people and products for decades to come, a $50 million undertaking to reconstruct two busy interchanges along Interstate 17 in north Phoenix, Ariz., is under way....
ADOT - Tue May 21, 2019
ADOT, Partners Expand Healthy Forest Initiative to Reduce Wildfire Risk
After the largest wildfire in state history burned more than 538,000 acres of eastern Arizona forest, the Arizona Department of Transportation and other groups launched a partnership in 2014 that included easing weight restrictions on certain state highways to help timber companies remove small trees and other vegetation that could fuel catastrophic fires....
