Wed September 02, 2015
Cleared for Landing: McCarthy Improves Atlanta Runway
With more than 58,000 employees and 250,000 daily passengers, Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta consistently ranks as one of the world’s busiest passenger airports. After withstanding 30-plus years of airplane taxiing, takeoffs and landings, it was time to replace a 9,000-ft....
Emery P. Dalesio - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tue September 01, 2015
Legal Deal Allows Bonner Bridge Replacement
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) A legal settlement is clearing the way for work to replace the crumbling bridge connecting the Outer Banks as early as next spring, as well as two new bridges on Hatteras Island over precarious areas where the main road is frequently washed out, North Carolina officials said....
Eric Olson - Tue September 01, 2015
Motocross Racer Makes the Grade After Career Change
Todd Bennick’s career took a decidedly left turn several years ago — one that has made him a respected member of the construction industry. Bennick owns and operates Bennick Grading in Nebo, located in the mountains of western North Carolina near Marion....
Mon August 31, 2015
Western Specialty Contractors Restores Brick Archways
The iconic Eads Bridge crossing the Mississippi River between St. Louis, Mo., and East St. Louis, Ill., was the first steel structure bridge of its kind in the United States when it was designed by James B....
Mon August 31, 2015
Uber Upscale Tower to Allow for ’Two-Car Garage in the Sky’
With a cluster of billionaires among its future tenants, the $560-million, 59-story Porsche Design Tower in Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., will offer a first-of-its-kind automated elevator system when construction is completed next year....
Dorinda Anderson - Fri August 28, 2015
Elementary School to Honor, Continue Namesake’s Legacy
Elementary students in Sioux Falls, S.D., who formerly attended Longfellow and Mark Twain Elementary schools, can look forward to attending a new school this fall. Construction of Susan B. Anthony Elementary School is on time and will be open for the new school year, said Darrel Jones, construction supervisor of the Sioux Falls school district....
Wed August 26, 2015
Half-Billion Dollar NYC Ferris Wheel Project Begins
NEW YORK (AP) - Construction is underway at the site of a $500 million Ferris wheel project along the Staten Island waterfront. The Staten Island Advance ( http://bit.ly/1Nw1SL4 ) reports that the 630-foot-tall observation wheel is scheduled to open for business in 2017....
Wed August 26, 2015
NHDOT Works Toward Project to Eliminate Erosion at Bridge
CORNISH, N.H. (AP) The New Hampshire Department of Transportation hopes to start work next year on a project to eliminate erosion around supports of a historic covered bridge connecting the state to Vermont....
Jay Adams - Wed August 26, 2015
Millennium Tower Will Rise to Give Boston’s Skyline an Updated?Look
Of all the many examples of Boston changing its skyline, the most symbolic is the Millennium Tower, shooting up from a big hole in the ground that was once the Filene’s Basement building. In the shadow of the big dig, at the end of the nation’s economic collapse in 2008, Boston was a maze of crumbled bridges, cracked highways and decrepit buildings, decaying and empty in gritty back streets....
Brenda Ruggiero - Tue August 25, 2015
Anchor Construction, ’Zipper Machine’ Star on Bridge Project
As a part of the Maryland State Highway Administration’s (SHA) ongoing statewide bridge system preservation program, the MD 140 Bridge over Liberty Reservoir/North Branch of the Patapsco River on the Baltimore/Carroll County line is currently undergoing a restoration....
