Tue July 02, 2019
Granite, Teichert Team Wins $275M Project in Sacramento
Granite announced that the joint venture team comprised of Granite and Teichert Inc. has been awarded a $275 million contract by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) for the SAC 5 Corridor Enhancement Project in Sacramento, Calif....
Epiroc - Mon July 01, 2019
Epiroc USA Moves Headquarters to Suburban Denver Technology Hub
Epiroc, a productivity partner for the mining and infrastructure industries, has relocated its U.S. headquarters from Commerce City to Broomfield within the Denver, Colo., metropolitan area. The company joins a dynamic business community in a tech corridor known as the "Rocky Mountain Silicon Valley."According to the company, the move to a technology hub is a natural one for Epiroc, a global company that provides drill rigs, rock excavation and construction equipment and tools, along with service products and solutions....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Mon July 01, 2019
Idaho Transportation Department Oversees $17.5M St. Maries, St. Joe Bridge Replacements
Construction crews are finishing work on two bridges in a design-build project in Northern Idaho. The project aims to replace the original structures on Idaho Highway 3 (ID-3) over the St. Maries Railroad and the St....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Fri June 28, 2019
Pre-Construction Activities Ramp Up on Walk Bridge Replacement Project
In Connecticut, pre-construction efforts are under way on The Walk Bridge Replacement Project. The project is currently at 60 percent design, and is expected to start construction by summer of next year....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Wed June 26, 2019
Concrete Roadway Repairs on I-90 Begin
Started last summer, Ulland Brothers Inc. is looking to complete the Minnesota Department of Transportation's (MnDOT) $17 million I-90 Westbound Concrete Overlay project between the cities of Manchester and Hayward in Freeborn County by mid-September....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Tue June 25, 2019
Crews Near Halfway Point in Storage Tunnel Project
Part of the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District's (NEORSD) Project Clean Lake, the $142.3 million Doan Valley Storage Tunnel project (DVT) has McNally/Kiewit DVT JV (McNally Tunneling Corp. and Kiewet Corporation) constructing three tunnels to help deal with combined sewer overflows (CSO) and have it treated....
Brenda Ruggiero – CEG Correspondent - Mon June 24, 2019
MDOT SHA Replaces Bridge Over CSX Line
In Arbutus, Md., which is located in Baltimore County, the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration (MDOT SHA) is heading up a project to replace the U.S. 1 (Washington Boulevard) Bridge over the CSX Transportation rail line....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Thu June 20, 2019
Rhode Island's Newport Bridge Turns 50
In the late 1960s, college student Michael Gallogly spent two summers working as an oiler on the Newport Bridge. A half-century later, he recalls in vivid detail the men he encountered, including one Native American ironworker who stood on the barge's steel deck in front of the engine shacks....
Romona Paden – CEG Correspondent - Wed June 19, 2019
Oil, Gas Surge Spurs West Texas Road Work
As the oil and gas industry in West Texas continues to roar, the heavy activity of energy exploration and production translates to a constant flow of 80,000-lb. trucks traversing the roads in the state's Permian Basin....
Colorado DOT - Wed June 19, 2019
CDOT Makes Decision to Re-Route Road Around Massive 'Memorial Rock'
Instead of demolishing and hauling away an 8.5-million-pound boulder that contributed to the destruction of a section of Colorado Highway 145 between Cortez and Telluride on May 26, the Colorado Department of Transportation is instead going to re-route the roadway around it — and save $200,000 in the process, according to news reports....
