Wed March 15, 2000
Customer Input Fuels Cat 318B Design
The new Caterpillar 318B L hydraulic excavator is the company’s latest entry to the B-Series line. Caterpillar maintained the successful 300 family design concept and added customer requested improvements.
The 318B L includes many of the features and improvements found on other B-Series models, including:
• Productivity in all applications;
• Controllability, simultaneous operation and fine control;
• Operator comfort; and
• Maintenance and serviceability.
Productivity
The 318B L is powered by the Caterpillar turbocharged 3046T diesel engine rated at 86-kilowatts (115 hp)....
Wed March 15, 2000
Cat Kicks 307B Into High Gear With New Buckets, Swing Boom
The Caterpillar 307B hydraulic excavator with an operating weight of between 6,500 kilograms (14,330 lbs.) and 8,418 kilograms (18,555 lbs.) and 40 kilowatt (54 hp) is the company’s newest entry to the B-Series line....
Mary Reed - Wed September 27, 2000
Wadsworth Golf Construction Caddies 18 Holes for Maryland’s Hyatt Resort
All work and no play makes conference attendees dull boys and girls. Fortunately for them, when Hyatt Hotels’ latest resort complex is completed conferees and other guests will be able to avail themselves of a number of relaxing amenities, including a health spa and the opportunity to play golf on an l8-hole championship level course....
Tom Nicholson - Wed August 16, 2000
Erosion Control Job Helps Save Pennsylvania Creek
Excavating contractors and conservation officers are working together to solve the problem of soil-eroding and flooding creeks in a unique project that is under way in northeastern Pennsylvania and may serve as a model for similar projects around the country.
Using the concept of fluvial geomorphology, in which erosion-causing sediment build up on the creek bed is eliminated by redirecting the water flow back into its original course at the center of the bed, the project is transforming the 20-mi....
Jack Ellery - Wed August 16, 2000
Contractor Takes On New Jersey Muck With ’Solar’ Power
Take some New Jersey muck by the side of a river, add some concrete pilings, sift the dirt to remove debris, rearrange things a little bit, and watch as townhouses spring up in the shadow of the George Washington Bridge....
Mary Reed - Wed August 02, 2000
Biggest Turnpike Expansion in Five Decades Takes $2.6B Toll
It’s the biggest expansion of the Pennsylvania Turnpike System since the l950s, during which the Turnpike’s northeastern, eastern and western extensions were constructed.
When the massive Mon-Fayette Expressway is completed and opens as SR-43 it will extend north from I-68 near Morgantown, WV, through the Uniontown and Brownsville areas and the Monongahela River Valley to I-376 near Pittsburgh, PA.
“The Mon-Fayette Expressway is actually composed of four separate, localized projects that would interconnect to form a continuous, 65-mi....
Mark Hoffman - Wed July 05, 2000
Mennonite Campus Site Brings Local Contractors Together in Good Faith
When B. R. Kreider & Sons was approached about performing the excavating work for the Mennonite Central Committee’s (MCC) five acre (2 hectare) Orientation Campus in Akron, Lancaster County, PA, the firm did what comes naturally and called on friends and competitors for help.
Excavating work on the $4-million project is being performed by five different contractors: Allgyer Excavating Inc., of Womelsdorf, Berks County, and four Lancaster County firms: Andrews Excavating of Willow Street, Flyway Excavating of Lititz, D.H....
Cynthia Hawkins Baldwin - Wed February 16, 2000
Expansion Project Takes Off at New Hampshire Airport
New Hampshire’s largest airport, located in the city of Manchester, is midway through a $320-million rejuvenation project. As part of an improvement project that began in 1993 with the construction of a new terminal building, the airport, located about 64 kilometers (40 mi.) north of Boston, MA, is to be completed in 2005....
Carmen Shirkey - Wed April 05, 2000
Pennsylvania Contractor Needs Hip Waders for Job
When the city of Roanoke and its partners — Roanoke County and the city of Salem — bid to replace the Roanoke River interceptor two years ago, only three bids were received. The city tried again, this time receiving only two bids....
Ron Page - Wed March 22, 2000
Worst Snowfall in Wake County’s History Smothers Multiple Sites
More than 20 pieces of heavy equipment are back at work at some 82.2 hectares (203 acres) of former tobacco fields being prepared as the complex for a high school, an elementary school, a firehouse, and future library in an annexed rural area of the town of Cary in Wake County, NC....
