Western Michigan University - Wed January 19, 2022
Western Michigan Students Partner With MDOT On Pioneering Bridge Project
The historic Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal is billed as a "once-in-a-generation investment" in the nation's infrastructure, creating millions of jobs to innovate and rehabilitate crumbling roads and bridges and transportation networks....
CEG - Wed January 19, 2022
Crews Now Building Underwater Supports for Maine's Madawaska Bridge
The new $97.5 Madawaska-Edmundston International bridge project, linking Maine to Canada's Province of New Brunswick, is taking shape as crews turn their focus underwater. Night work on the bridge began in September, and since that time workers have constructed a pier across the St....
City & State Pennsylvania - Tue January 18, 2022
USDOT Secretary Buttigieg Promotes $1.6B From Fed Bill to Fix Pa.'s Bridges
Standing in front of the Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Drive Bridge in Philadelphia on Jan. 14, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg highlighted the bridge funding that the city and commonwealth will receive as part of the federal infrastructure bill....
Miami Herald & Keys Weekly - Thu January 13, 2022
Florida Keys Residents Celebrate Restoration of the Old Seven-Mile Bridge
In one of the most highly anticipated openings in recent Florida Keys history, officials from Monroe County on Jan. 12 gathered with the city of Marathon, the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), the Pigeon Key Foundation and Friends of Old Seven to officially welcome the public back to the renovated Old Seven Mile Bridge....
Illinois Tollway - Wed January 05, 2022
Innovative Gantry System in Place for Mile Long Bridge
As part of the construction of a new southbound Mile Long Bridge on the Central Tri-State Tollway (I-294), the Illinois Tollway will begin using an innovative gantry system to move and install bridge beams behind barrier wall in the work zone, without disrupting traffic....
Todd Razor – SPECIAL TO CEG - Wed January 05, 2022
Less Commotion, Cost With Vacuum Lifting Concrete On Missouri Bridge
Concerns surrounding the reduction of noise and creation of fewer dust particles on construction sites are shaking up techniques on which civil contractors have historically relied to break or handle concrete during road and bridge projects....
MBTA - Tue January 04, 2022
Massachusetts Drawbridge Replacement Will Allow Rail Service to Resume in May
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) announced just before Christmas that its commuter-rail service over the Gloucester Drawbridge on the Rockport Line is expected to be restored by May....
CEG - Mon January 03, 2022
Complex I-70 Bridge Project in West Virginia Heading Toward Completion
Although work in and around Interstate 70 in the Wheeling, W.V., area will continue into this fall, all 26 bridges in a massive $215 million bridge replacement and rehabilitation project are either completely or partially open to traffic, the West Virginia Division of Highways (DOH) announced in late December....
Ken Liebeskind -CEG Correspondent - Wed December 29, 2021
Reconstruction of Gleasondale Road Bridge Continues With Demo Phase
The reconstruction of the Gleasondale Road Bridge in Stow, Mass., is under way, with preliminary work completed and removal of the existing deck and beams to follow. The Kodiak Corp. of Lawrence, Mass., is the contractor....
Chuck MacDonald – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Wed December 29, 2021
Granite, NV5 Crews Rebuild Belle Terrace
It's not often that creativity and construction get to show up in the same sentence, yet contractors, utilities and the city of Bakersfield, Calif., teamed up to use creativity and sweat to handle more than 80 modifications to the original plans and successfully complete the Belle Terrace Operational Improvements Project with no citations or claims....
