Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Wed October 23, 2019
Work Continues on Waco District's Largest Project
At a cost of $341 million, Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) crews are working on the largest project ever let in the Waco district. Construction on I-35 Waco North from 12th Street to N. Loop 340 began in May, and includes widening the mainlanes to four lanes in each direction and improving frontage roads and interchanges....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Tue October 22, 2019
Pendry Park City Brings New Luxury to Ski Resorts
A half-hour from Salt Lake City, excavation efforts continue on a luxury resort inspired by both the landscape and local mining history. The mountain town of Park City, Utah, is home to the largest ski area in the nation, and is considered an ideal setting for the new development....
Lori Lovely – CEG Correspondent - Tue October 22, 2019
AMG Demolition Expands, Diversifies Services Offered
Not every family business is small. When AMG Demolition and Environmental Services, Inc. was founded in 2002 by Mike and Annette Gafa Sr., the company employed 10 to 15 people. Today, the company has about 10 times the number of employees....
Brenda Ruggiero – CEG Correspondent - Mon October 14, 2019
'Bridge to Nowhere' Starts to Go Somewhere
What was once called the "Bridge to Nowhere" in Bluefield, W. Va., is now going somewhere thanks to the Governor's Roads to Prosperity Program. According to Terra L. Goins, PE, assistant district engineer of the West Virginia Division of Highways (WDOH), the bridge was one of the first projects added to the program....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Wed August 14, 2019
McHugh Construction Putting up Floor for Kenect Nashville
James McHugh Construction Co. is building the $80 million-plus Kenect Nashville, a 20-story, 420-unit high-rise that will be the second largest apartment building in Nashville, Tenn. , when completed in July 2020....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Tue August 13, 2019
UTHealth Begins Construction on New $125M Hospital
In what will be the first major construction of a state mental health hospital in more than two decades, work has begun on a facility in Houston that will provide services for people needing inpatient acute psychiatric care or support to help transition back to their home communities....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Wed August 07, 2019
Army Corps' First-Ever P3 Project Presses On
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' $2,841,062,000 (current estimate) Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Area Flood Risk Management Project is pressing forward, and one of the ongoing elements is the $46,040,475 Diversion Inlet Structure (DIS) initiative in the city of Horace, N.D....
Eric Olson –CEG Correspondent - Wed May 15, 2019
Excavating for Science in Former Gold Mine
For well over 100 years, the Homestake mine in South Dakota was the largest and deepest gold mine in North America, producing 41 million oz. of the precious metal until its closure in 2002. Now, the extensive maze of caverns at the site, in the state's beautiful Black Hills, is being transformed into a laboratory designed to unlock the mysteries of some of the smallest particles in the universe....
Joe Barron – CEG Associate Editor - Mon December 03, 2018
Tennessee Excavating Enjoys Boom Times in Knoxville
Construction is booming again in Knoxville, and Tennessee Excavating is right in the middle of it. Just one year ago, the company had nine employees working on a single project. Today, more than 50 employees, operating more than 50 machines, are working on five sites....
CHRISTINA LARSON - Associated Press - Fri October 26, 2018
VIDEO: China's Building Boom Churns Up Dinosaur Fossils
YANJI, China (AP) — At the end of a street of newly built high-rises in the northern Chinese city of Yanji stands an exposed cliff face, where paleontologists scrape away 100 million-year-old rock in search of prehistoric bones....
