Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Thu June 04, 2020
W. L. French Wraps Up Excavation; Boynton Yards Presses Forward
The erection of the steel frame for the 101 South Street tower is eing constructed by DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners (DLJ RECP) in joint venture with Leggat McCall Properties (LMP) as part of the Boynton Yards development in Somerville, Mass....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Thu May 21, 2020
Maine Uses Design-Build Approach for Nine Spans Over Four-Mi. Stretch
Dump truck drivers will be busy in the coming months on a bridge project in Hampden, Maine. Their task: hauling 160,000 cu. yds. of fill material for the replacement of eight bridges and repair of one on I-95 just south of Bangor....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Tue May 19, 2020
Ames Moves 1.5 Million Tons of Fill in Tooele County
A project under discussion for 60-odd years will give Tooele County residents three miles of new highway and a much needed connection to I-80. Phase one of the $74.4 million Midvalley Highway (S.R. 179) began last fall, but the project has been on the table since the 1960s....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Wed May 13, 2020
Joint Venture Working to Rebuild, Widen Lanes Along I-65
The joint-venture of Dunn Construction Co. Inc. and Wiregrass Construction Company are looking to deliver the Alabama Department of Transportation's (ALDOT) $68 million widening of four miles of I-65 (south of I-459 from exits 238 to 242) by this July....
Sonora Construction - Wed May 06, 2020
Sonora Construction Puts Bell Trucks, Hyundai Excavators to Work
A Houston-area contractor is moving 2.5 million cu. yds. of dirt on a Howard Hughes Company project in Cypress, Tex. The $10 million project will create a 2-mi. long mitigation lake system and about 300 acres of future residential lots and common areas in the Bridgeland Subdivision, an 11,000-acre, master-planned community that will eventually be home to 65,000 people northwest of Houston....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Wed April 29, 2020
Foundation Work Complete on $136.6M Iowa Courthouse
Foundation work on a new $136.6 million federal courthouse in Des Moines is under way with augered pier work complete and pile cap installations and early work packages for the deep footings and site utilities started in March....
Eric Olson –CEG Correspondent - Thu April 23, 2020
The 'First State' Updates Part of Its I-95
One of the busiest highway corridors in the U.S. is Interstate 95, a stretch that runs north from Richmond, Va., before continuing around Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York City, New Haven, Conn., and Boston....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Thu April 16, 2020
S.T. Wooten Off to Good Start on I-95 Widening From Raleigh to Fayetteville
The Feb. 9 closure of the Long Branch Road bridge (Exit 71) over Interstate 95, north of Fayetteville (Harnett County), marked the first stage of the North Carolina Department of Transportation's (NCDOT) $404 million project to widen 18 miles of the interstate under a design-build contract awarded to S.T....
CEG - Thu April 16, 2020
Pennsylvania Buries Graffiti Highway
After 58 years on fire, it's taken a global pandemic and a stay-at-home order to put an end to the ghost town-turned-tourist-attraction in Centralia, Pa. The site of an uncontrolled, underground coal fire since 1962, this strip of Route 61 known as Graffiti Highway has been covered with dirt by workers with heavy equipment and shut down after visitors swarmed the site during the coronavirus lockdown....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Wed April 01, 2020
Innovation, Green Infrastructure Resolves Flooding
In 2017, Astra-Rohadfox UPC JV LP, a joint venture between Astra Group and Rohadfox Construction Control Services Corporation, was selected to deliver the Atlanta Department of Watershed Management's (DWM) Upper Proctor Creek Capacity Relief Facility and the Trust for Public Land's (TPL) Rodney Cook Sr....
