Case Construction Equipment - Thu March 18, 2021
Case Launches ReNew Used Equipment Centers
Case Construction Equipment has launched the first official Case ReNew Centers in partnership with dealers Associated Supply Company Inc. (ASCO), Hills Machinery and RPM Machinery. The Case ReNew Centers will thoroughly inspect, service and recondition Case lease returns and/or other used Case equipment which will then be sold through Case dealers in highly populated equipment markets....
CEG - Thu March 18, 2021
Iron Auction Group Holds Sale for Concord Builders
Iron Auction Group held a successful unreserved Retirement Auction for Concord Builders, in Concord, N.C., on March 11, 2021. After more than 30 years in the business, the Thomas family has decided to retire from their contracting company and commissioned Iron Auction Group to sell their assets at unreserved public auction....
WLOS-TV - Tue March 09, 2021
North Carolina DOT Needs Skilled Workers, Will Offer Free Training
There is a little-known advantage to western North Carolina's Interstate 26 construction in Buncombe and Henderson counties — free training for new workers. Through the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT), people in underserved communities are eligible to attend highway construction trade academies (HCTA)....
Eric Olson - CEG CONTRIBUTING EDITOR - Thu March 04, 2021
Great People, Equipment Spur Success for N.C. Contractor
Lewis Barton puts a great deal of faith in the people that help make his utility construction company successful. In turn, his crews respect him and admire the way he and his management operate the firm....
Linder Industrial Machinery - Thu March 04, 2021
Linder Industrial Machinery Becomes Authorized Topcon Dealer in Carolinas
Linder Industrial Machinery is now an authorized Topcon Positioning dealer in North and South Carolina. "I am extremely excited about this partnership with Topcon and Linder in the Carolinas," said Chris Wilkes, Linder Industrial Machinery's senior vice president of sales of the Carolinas....
Winston-Salem Journal - Thu February 25, 2021
Novant Health to Build $222M Critical Care Tower in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Novant Health Inc. said Feb. 25 that it will spend $222 million to build a critical-care tower at Forsyth Medical Center. The tower is the largest investment by Novant for its main Triad hospital and is the second phase of an overall $403.4 million project at the Winston-Salem, N.C., hospital....
Eric Olson - CEG CONTRIBUTING EDITOR - Thu February 18, 2021
R.H. Price Installs Water Main Down Busy Charlotte Street
Anyone who has regularly driven around Charlotte, N.C., in the last couple of decades can attest to its seemingly never-ending growth. New skyscrapers are erected each year in the uptown, along with multi-story residential apartments and condominiums in the trendy neighborhoods nearby....
Eric Olson - CEG CONTRIBUTING EDITOR - Thu February 18, 2021
Amid Challenges, N.C Freeway Interchange Remains on Schedule
It is now been almost nine years since contractors first began to transform the interchange at I-40 and I-77 in Statesville, N.C., 40 mi. north of Charlotte. With only an expected year-and-a-half left before the two-phased freeway project is finished, crews from two different construction companies have made quite a few upgrades to each interstate as well as several streets and roads feeding to them and the interchange....
UMA - Wed February 10, 2021
UMA to Break NCDOT Record for Largest Square Footage of Soil Nail Wall
UMA Geotechnical Construction, a North Carolina-based geotechnical contractor serving the Mid-Atlantic Region, is working on a project that will become the largest square footage of soil nail walls done under a single contract in North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) history....
Eric Olson - CEG CONTRIBUTING EDITOR - Thu February 04, 2021
Young Expert Leads N.C. Stream Restoration Construction
The practice of engineering stream and wetland restoration has been in use for thousands of years — ever since humans first realized they needed to keep their waterways healthy to drink and safe to travel upon....
