Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Tue May 12, 2020
UNL Demolishes 'Link' For $160M Campus Addition
At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, construction crews have successfully completed demolition of the Link between Scott Engineering Center and Nebraska Hall. Foundation work is now under way on the first of two school projects totaling $160 million....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Tue May 12, 2020
Blasting Completed for Essentia Health's $800M Duluth Campus
Twice-daily blasting is required at the site of a 12-story hospital bed tower, which is part of Essentia Health's $800 million Vision Northland project on its medical campus in downtown Duluth, Minn....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Thu May 07, 2020
MassDOT's $169M Chelsea Viaduct Project in Boston Presses Forward
The Skanska-McCourt Joint Venture (Skanska US and McCourt Construction Co. ) started its work on the Massachusetts Department of Transportation's (MassDOT) nearly $204 million (total cost) rehabilitation of the Chelsea Viaduct Bridge in Boston, a project that began in April 2019....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Tue May 05, 2020
Knife River Corp. Replacing 80-Year-Old Idaho Bridge
Knife River Corporation is constructing the Idaho Transportation Department's (ITD) $7.3 million U.S. 95 Weiser River Bridge Replacement project, which involves rebuilding a two-lane structure that has been in existence for more than 80 years dating back to 1939....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Tue April 28, 2020
'The Gallery at Kenwood' in Cincinnati Pressing Forward
The demolition of 22 two- to three-story apartment buildings on the block bound by Kenwood Road, Happiness Way and Festive Court, a 10-acre site, began in the northeast section of downtown Cincinnati in late January to make room for the construction of the Capital Investment Group LLC's (CIG) $130 million project — The Gallery at Kenwood....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Thu April 23, 2020
End Finally Comes in View for $100M Portsmouth Project
Thirty-eight months into a nearly $100 million Portsmouth, N.H., wastewater project and the end is finally in sight. Construction on the Peirce Island Wastewater Treatment Facility (WWTF), the largest public works project in the city's history, got under way in 2016 after the city was ordered to upgrade the existing wastewater facility due to inadequate treatment....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Tue April 07, 2020
Carter & Company to Deliver I-84 Graham Road Project
Carter & Company Inc. (C&C) crews began work on the Oregon Department of Transportation's (ODOT) $18.7M, I-84 Graham Road Bridges Project in the city of Troutdale in February 2019 and are looking at beating the delivery date of December 2020....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Wed March 11, 2020
New Park Coming to Rollover Pass Site
The first step toward the construction of a new Bayside park in Gilchrist, Texas (Galveston County), is the filling in of the Rollover Pass in the Bolivar Peninsula, a $7.4 million project that began last October when crews from Brizo Construction LLC commenced its operations to fill in the 200-ft....
Associated Press - Tue March 10, 2020
Iconic 'Leaning Tower of Dallas' Finally Topples Over
DALLAS (AP) The "Leaning Tower of Dallas," the nearly iconic remnant of a high-rise building implosion gone awry, finally collapsed in a cloud of dust on March 2 after two weeks of being whacked with a headache ball....
NBC News - Tue February 25, 2020
Failed Demo Creates Buzz, 'Leaning Tower of Dallas'
A failed demolition has given Dallas a new city landmark. Temporarily, at least. On Feb. 16, the implosion of an 11-story tower on Haskell Avenue near downtown Dallas failed to bring down the center of the structure, causing a "Leaning Tower of Dallas" to remain standing....
