NASA Kennedy Space Center - Mon July 26, 2021
New Bridge at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Starts with Utilities Work
NASA's Engineering Directorate at Florida's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is managing multiple critical projects on the Indian River Bridge in Brevard County. Included in that is the installation of new utility lines and safeguarding the existing wires and piping prior to the beginning of new construction to replace the structure, also known as the NASA Causeway Bridge....
StreetsBlog Mass - Mon July 26, 2021
MassDOT Presents $12.5M in Shared Streets, Complete Streets Grants
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) delivered welcome news to 96 projects across the Commonwealth on July 21 as it released $6 million in grants to 18 communities through its 2022 Complete Streets Funding Program....
CEG - Thu July 22, 2021
S.C. Congresswoman Mace Tours May-RHI, Talks Infrastructure Plan, Industry Concerns
Freshman Congresswoman Nancy Mace, a Republican from the 1st District of South Carolina, visited the Summerville branch of May-RHI on July 7 to learn more about the construction equipment business and talk about President Biden's proposed infrastructure plan....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Thu July 22, 2021
Lane Leads $135M Suncoast Parkway Extension
Despite encountering two sinkholes and relocating close to 600 gopher tortoises, crews in Florida remain on schedule as they work on a $135 million undertaking known as the Suncoast Parkway 2 (Phase One) project....
CEG - Wed July 21, 2021
Rhode Island Begins Work on Phase Two of Newport Pell Bridge Approaches
Federal, state and local officials gathered July 16 on the long Claiborne Pell Bridge off-ramp in Newport, R.I., for the groundbreaking of work to reconfigure the structure's approaches, the second phase of a total $84.9 million project that began in 2020....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Wed July 21, 2021
MDOT Rebuilds Section of I-75 Following Tanker Fire
Only days after a tanker truck crashed on Michigan's northbound I-75 destroying hundreds of feet of newer pavement and barrier wall, crews were on the job ready to rebuild. It's the bright note in a frightening accident that closed the north and south bound lanes at Big Beaver Road in Troy for days....
Dick Rohland – CEG Correspondent - Wed July 21, 2021
Ames Oversees $129M Minneapolis Bridge Rehab
It has been a workhorse of a bridge standing the test of time over the last five generations as motor vehicle traffic continued to evolve and drastically increase in numbers. Without doubt, this is due to the engineers who designed it and the contractor who built it at a time when, just a few years earlier, the horse and carriage could still be seen on city streets....
AASHTO - Wed July 21, 2021
USDOT Awards Nearly $1B in INFRA Grants Across 18 States
The U.S. Department of Transportation plans to award $905 million to 24 projects in 18 states via the Infrastructure for Rebuilding America or INFRA discretionary grant program. USDOT said it selected those INFRA grant recipients based on several criteria....
Office of the Governor of Kansas - Wed July 21, 2021
Gov. Kelly OKs $129M Kansas Highway Improvement Projects
On July 7, Gov. Laura Kelly announced that six expansion and modernization highway projects in south central Kansas — totaling more than $129 million investments — have been committed to construction as part of the Kelly Administration's bipartisan transportation plan....
CEG - Wed July 21, 2021
VIDEO: New York's Plan to Replace Aging I-81 Viaduct in Syracuse Finally Comes into Focus
A newly released construction plan from the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) shows that the replacement of the city's crumbling Interstate 81 will involve many pieces before construction is finished in five years....
