Associated Press - Wed December 16, 2020
Crews Discover Howitzer Round on Yuma Job Site
YUMA, ARIZ. (AP) A construction crew in southern Arizona has discovered an unexploded howitzer round while working on a road. Yuma Proving Ground's explosives experts identified the ordnance as a 155 mm howitzer round of a kind that were used in World War II and the Vietnam War, The Sun reported....
HCEA - Mon December 07, 2020
Cranes of the Past
Take a look back at cranes of the past courtesy of Historical Construction Equipment Association. (The Historical Construction Equipment Association (HCEA) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to preserving for public education the history of the construction, dredging and surface mining equipment industries.)...
Weirton Daily Times - Tue December 01, 2020
West Virginia's Capitol Dome Repair to be Done by Late Spring
By late spring 2021, work should be finished on a $15 million project to repair the water-damaged West Virginia Capitol dome in Charleston and install a new drainage system to mitigate future leaks, among other structural repairs....
JCB - Thu October 22, 2020
From Garage to Global Force: JCB Marks 75 Years in Business
JCB was founded on Oct. 23, 1945, by the late Joseph Cyril Bamford in a tiny lock-up garage in the Staffordshire market town of Uttoxeter in the UK. It was the same day his son Anthony, now Lord Bamford, was born, and as Bamford remarked "being presented with a son tended to concentrate the mind and when you were starting at the bottom, there was only one way to go and that was up."The foundation for the growth that was to follow was the manufacture of a tipping trailer made from war time scrap, which today stands proudly in the showroom of JCB's World HQ....
JCB - Mon August 31, 2020
Vintage JCB Machine Restored to Former Glory
One of JCB's longest-standing customers has unwrapped a unique present — a vintage backhoe loader restored to its former glory to mark the equipment manufacturer's approaching 75th anniversary. Lincolnshire-based Eric Carnaby & Son has been a customer since 1959 and over the following six decades has bought more than 150 JCB machines....
HCEA - Tue August 18, 2020
Looking Back: Paving
Construction Equipment Guide takes a look back at some of the earliest paving equipment. ...
Raleigh News & Observer - Wed August 12, 2020
Raleigh Landmark, The Big Yellow Tractor Sign, Returns to City Street
The old tractor sign from the former North Carolina Equipment Co. building has a new home on The Standard student apartment building along Raleigh's Hillsborough Street. When residents began moving into The Standard, a new student apartment building on Hillsborough Street, many of them passed under a big yellow tractor that has watched over this stretch of the street since before World War II....
HCEA - Mon August 03, 2020
Lifting From the Past – Cranes From the Ike Years
Construction Equipment Guide looks back at cranes from the 1950s. ...
HCEA - Thu July 30, 2020
Looking Back: Backhoes
Construction Equipment Guide looks back at backhoes from the 1950's. ...
Hackensack Meridian Health - Wed June 24, 2020
New Jersey's Raritan Bay Medical Center Old Bridge Unveils Time Capsule
In 1997, Hackensack Meridian Raritan Bay Medical Center Old Bridge team members buried a time capsule during the construction of adding a fourth level to the hospital. Recently, Raritan Bay Medical Center Old Bridge leaders and team members unveiled the time capsule during the construction of its new expanded Emergency Department....
