Maybelle G. Cagle - Tue May 23, 2006
Campus Overhaul a Lesson in Teamwork
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) campus in Little Rock has begun $265 million in campus expansion projects. It is one of the most expensive construction efforts in Arkansas since the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigational System was built in the 1960s....
David S. Chartock - Mon May 15, 2006
Born to Ruin - CDI Razes Asbury Park Eyesore
It took weeks of planning, but in a mere 14 seconds, the 12-story, steel-frame remains of an abandoned, uncompleted condominium building known as C-8 in Asbury Park, NJ, came crashing down. “It’s about time,” said Kenny Wilson, of Asbury Park, passing by on his morning jog three days prior to the implosion....
Tue May 09, 2006
John Deere Goes to Work For Ohio Excavating Firm
Started more than 65 years ago as a gravel hauling company, Miller Bros. Excavating has grown to one of the top earthmovers in Ohio. The firm branched into excavating in 1942 and has continued to expand, providing services to residential and commercial customers in a 70-mi....
James McRay - Wed May 10, 2006
Green Bay Contractor Packs in Pipeline
A consortium of six Green Bay, WI, suburban communities recently let bids to build a 65-mi. long raw-water pipeline from Ledgeview, WI, to a treatment plant on Lake Michigan in Manitowoc, WI. The huge pipe-installation project is divided into separate contracts, where each contractor is responsible for installing sections of the pipeline in different locations along the path which runs through portions of Brown and Manitowoc counties....
David S. Chartock - Fri May 12, 2006
Cranes Kept Busy at NC Phosphorus Reduction Plant
Two Link-Belt rough-terrain cranes played a key role in the $29-million McAlpine Creek WWMF Phosphorus Reduction project in Pineville, NC. According to Geoff Doyle, a project manager of Atlantic Skanska Inc., the Atlanta-based general contractor, a Link-Belt 8050 and a Link-Belt 8070, each a rough-terrain crane leased from Atlantic & Southern of Atlanta, were used to set chemical tanks, pumps, sludge processing equipment and precast concrete water sample stations throughout the 1-sq.-mi....
Lisa Coston - Thu May 11, 2006
Enormous Project to Create Bypass Into State’s ’Heart’
On one stretch of road that serves as a merging point for Georgia State Route 316 and Interstate 85 South, in Lawrenceville, GA — the county seat for the sprawling Gwinnett County — the daily scene, at any given time, often resembles the final laps of a NASCAR race....
Brian Kern - Tue May 09, 2006
Citrus Canker Sparks Projects for Florida Contractor
In a place where citrus groves once dominated the landscape all the way to the horizon, coconut palm saplings and sprawling subdivisions are now sprouting up. On the western edge of Vero Beach, FL, Joe Massagee, vice president of Heavy Equipment Services (HES) drives his truck through a decontamination spray on the way to one of the company’s work sites....
Giles Lambertson - Mon May 08, 2006
Scurry Sails Through Carolina Lakes Job
As a teenager, President Andrew Jackson fought the British in the woods around his home in what now is Lancaster County, SC. Later, Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman and his troops burned their way through the area....
Wed May 03, 2006
Equipment Gamble Pays Off for Upscale TX Storm Sewer Project
Every year, millions of people travel to Las Vegas with hopes of finding their fortune in cash. Utility Contractor Connard Barker made that same trip to Vegas in early 2005, but instead of easy money, he was looking for a solution to a job-site challenge he was facing in Texas....
Kate Zanoni - Fri May 05, 2006
Averill Park Septic Service Builds on Family Ties
When David Lobdell started his business in 1984, his equipment inventory consisted of only a small dozer, a Kubota tractor backhoe loader and a single axle dump. In those days, the company’s market area consisted primarily of Rensselaer and parts of Columbia and Albany counties in New York....
