Fri August 18, 2017
NJDOT Invests Record $1.2B in Transportation Projects
Editor's Note: The following is a transcript of Gov. Christie's remarks on July 27, 2017:Governor Christie: "We're in the midst of the first full year of the eight-year Transportation Trust Fund program that's been increased now to $2 billion a year in state funds, $4 billion overall with federal funds, and residents are starting to see for themselves the work that is occurring throughout the state to enhance and improve our roads, our bridges and our mass transit operations....
Thu August 17, 2017
Build With Strength: Waltham, Mass., City Council Votes 14-0 for Safer Codes
On July 31, Waltham city councilors voted unanimously to call on the state of Massachusetts to implement tighter restrictions on the size of wood-frame residential buildings after a massive ten-alarm fire destroyed a wooden apartment complex under construction in late July....
Cindy Riley - Thu August 17, 2017
Mansfield's Department of Public Works Constructs New $35M Facility
In Mansfield, Mass., work continues on a $35 million municipal complex that will include a public works administrative facility and a combination police and fire department structure. Work will take place in two phases, with current construction focused on the Department of Public Works (DPW)....
Thu August 17, 2017
Shawmut Equipment Celebrates 60 Years in New England
Shawmut Equipment has been a leading equipment distributor bringing quality products to its customers since 1957. This year marks 60 years of continued success in the industry. Shawmut represents the Manitowoc Crane Group's range of construction cranes, including Manitowoc crawler cranes, Grove rough terrain cranes, Grove GMK all terrain cranes, Grove hydraulic crawler cranes, Grove yard boss industrial cranes, National boom trucks and Potain self-erecting cranes, as well as a variety of utility equipment....
Thu August 17, 2017
Fairfield University to Break Ground on New Business School
Fairfield University's Charles F. Dolan School of Business will relocate to a new academic building scheduled to open in the fall of 2019. Plans for the new building feature a simulated financial trading room, big data analytics lab, entrepreneurship center with ideation lab space, visualization and simulation lab, active learning and case-based classrooms and more....
Thu August 17, 2017
Spazzarini Construction Calls on Barry Equipment to Expand Fleet Due to Competitive Price, Product Support
Spazzarini Construction Company, founded in 1921 by Antonio Spazzarini, an immigrant seeking a better life for his family, has been serving Connecticut for nearly a century. Located in Enfield, Conn., the company serves clients throughout all of north-central Connecticut and western Massachusetts....
Emily Buenzle - Wed August 16, 2017
Further Delays for Sarah Long Bridge Opening
Delays have pushed the opening date of the new $170 million Sarah Milford Long Bridge in Portsmouth, ME, to sometime in early November. The bridge was originally supposed to open on Sept. 1, before a previous delay pushed that date back to mid-October, construction administrators said....
Emily Buenzle - Tue August 08, 2017
Balsams Developers Plead With Planning Board to Expedite Construction Applications
Dixville Capital LLC has filed four site plans with New Hampshire's Coos County Planning Board in an effort to begin Phase I of a $165 million expansion and rehabilitation project at The Balsams resort....
Tue August 08, 2017
Video Update: NJ-Bound 8M-Pound Structure Transported Down Hudson River
The Port of Coeymans moved an 8-million-pound heating structure from the port onto a barge Aug. 2, for transport south on the Hudson River on its way to New Jersey. It is the largest project of its kind ever in the U.S....
Mon August 07, 2017
Customers Will Benefit as Eagle Power Acquires Histand's
Eagle Power & Equipment, based in Montgomeryville, Pa., recently acquired Histand's Equipment, based in Doylestown, Pa. The acquisition, finalized April 27, 2017, was set in motion a few years ago when the owners of the two companies met to discuss other business matters....
