Fri December 16, 2005
Mazzocchi Wrecking Razes Con-Ed Plant in Manhattan
New York City is much more than just the “city that never sleeps;” it’s also a city that can’t sit still. Artists who hope to capture a precise rendering of Manhattan’s landscape have to sketch it about as quickly as Greenwich Village’s caricature artists do of hurried tourists looking for a souvenir....
Angela B. Hurni - Fri December 09, 2005
Thompson Contractors Relies on Hitachi at NC Quarry
Thompson Contractors Inc., a family-owned business since the 1940s, operates two quarries in North Carolina, which mainly produce load shot granite and stone-based material for asphalt plants. The Miller Creek Quarry, the largest of the two quarries and located in Rutherfordton, NC, has been in operation since 1965....
Lisa Coston - Tue December 06, 2005
Cleveland Construction Deals With Tight Quarters at Chamblee Village
Commuters lift their necks out of car windows to peer over the fence of a Chamblee, GA, job site, sometimes causing minor fender benders and traffic jams, along the corridors of Chamblee Tucker Road and Peachtree Industrial Blvd....
Wed November 30, 2005
Hitachi Accompanies VA Contractor Through Years of Growth
Russell Jenkins, the president of General Excavation Inc., recalled the time he first met Don Powell, a Hitachi salesman of J.W. Burress. “It was in the early 1980s,” said Jenkins. “Don Powell came to one of my job sites, and I happened to be running the motorgrader....
Tue November 29, 2005
Hitachi EX1900 Improves Productivity at Oregon Quarry Op
In quarry operations, it’s not easy to replace a piece of equipment that has provided decades of reliable service. However, when that equipment has outlived its practicality and replacing it can significantly reduce downtime and increase production, nostalgia takes a back seat to good business sense....
Jeff Cronin - Wed November 23, 2005
Demolition Firm Races to Remove Darlington Grandstand in 2 Weeks
Before work could begin on the construction aspects of a $6 million capital improvement plan at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, SC, the old Brasington Grandstand in Turn 2 had to go. For two weeks this fall, a 15-member crew from Total Demolition in Hartsville, SC, leading with a Caterpillar 330 excavator with a Genesis XP shear, crunched away the old 3,000-seat grandstand....
Tue November 22, 2005
Small Illinois Contractor Moves Dirt for Big Jobs
It’s a wise businessman who can find his niche market and be successful in it. Such is the case with Joe France, owner of France Bulldozing, Astoria, IL. France Bulldozing is a four-man company that specializes in small earth-moving jobs....
Thu November 17, 2005
NJ Company Builds Reputation for Tackling Tough Jobs
Mike Jost has always had a fascination with heavy equipment. As a child, he was often found playing with Tonka toys and laying imaginary pipe. Today, he’s living out his childhood dreams as owner and president of Mike Jost Excavating, one of northern New Jersey’s premier private excavating companies....
Jennifer Rupp - Tue November 15, 2005
Excavation Begins for Convention Center on Lake Erie
On the shore of Presque Isle Bay in Erie, PA, the Erie County Convention Center Authority (ECCCA) is embarking on the largest development project in Erie’s history. Along with the 28,800 sq.-ft. (2,676 sq m) exhibition hall, the Bayfront Convention Center Complex also will feature an upscale hotel and restaurant development alongside the U.S....
David S. Chartock - Mon November 14, 2005
A Plant Grows in Brooklyn
For the $493-million upgrade to the Newtown Creek Water Pollution Control Plant (WPCP) in Brooklyn, NY, for the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, heavy construction equipment has been facilitating work on the project since it began in September 2003....
