Volvo - Tue September 20, 2022
Volvo LIGHTS Project Wraps Up in Southern California
Volvo Trucks North America announced the culmination of the Volvo LIGHTS project — a three-year project that brought together 14 public and private partners to design and implement a blueprint for the robust support ecosystem necessary to deploy battery-electric trucks and equipment at scale....
Chuck MacDonald – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Tue September 20, 2022
Atkinson Moves Mountains On California Highway Project
Motorists understand that it can be aggravating — and even dangerous — being trapped behind a line of tractor trailers going in the same direction. Caltrans and crews from Atkinson Construction are removing some of the aggravation and adding safety to a stretch of State Route 46 in central California....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Wed September 07, 2022
Articulated Trucks Vital On Teichert Highway Job
Crews from Teichert Construction are wrapping up work on the California Department of Transportation's (Caltrans) Yuba 20 Corridor Roadway Projects. The contractor currently is performing work with a bridge replacement on the State Route 20 Browns Valley Bridge and pavement rehabilitation....
Associated Press - Wed September 07, 2022
Crews Make Emergency Fixes to I-10 Washout in California
DESERT CENTER, Calif. (AP) Highway workers have opened a second lane for travel on the main route from Los Angeles east to Phoenix after repairing damage caused by monsoonal flooding during the last week of August....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Tue August 23, 2022
Flatiron, Drill Tech Drilling & Shoring Inc. Restore Eroding Slopes
The California Department of Transportation is spending $51 million to construct two secant (retaining) walls to restore eroded slopes on the coastal side of the Pacific Coast Highway (PCH, Route 1) south of Point Mugu State Park in Ventura County....
Caltrans - Tue August 23, 2022
California Invests $3B to Improve Aging Infrastructure
The California Transportation Commission (CTC) allocated more than $3 billion to repair and improve transportation infrastructure throughout the state, including $1.3 billion in funding from the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to support local projects and to protect local roads and bridges from extreme weather and natural disasters....
Caltrans - Tue August 23, 2022
Construction Crews Make Emergency Repairs On SR 89
The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is performing emergency work to install a temporary water passage (culvert) on State Route (SR) 89 near Markleeville, Alpine County, in an effort to reopen the highway following a devastating mudslide on Aug....
Bureau of Land Management - Tue August 23, 2022
Solar Project Will Create 750 Union Construction Jobs
The Bureau of Land Management has issued the final approval for construction of the Oberon solar project on approximately 2,600 acres of BLM-managed land near Desert Center in eastern Riverside County, a significant milestone in the Biden-Harris administration's efforts to modernize America's power infrastructure in the West and permit at least 25 gigawatts of solar, wind, and geothermal production on public lands by 2025....
Chuck MacDonald – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Wed August 10, 2022
Granite Tackles California Congestion Issue With $700M '101 in Motion' Project
For more than 20 years, the Southern California cities of Santa Barbara and Carpinteria have endured a daily slog of congestion that spills over into these charming beach communities. U.S. 101 carries three lanes of traffic in each direction out of Los Angeles to all points northward....
CARB - Thu July 28, 2022
$125M in Incentives for Off-Road Zero-Emission Equipment Available Through California's CORE Project
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) opens the second round of its Clean Off-Road Equipment Voucher Incentive Project (CORE) today, providing point-of-sale discounts on off-road zero-emission equipment....
