Lori Lovely – CEG Correspondent - Tue June 02, 2020
Timberlake Construction Tackles Will Rogers Airport Upgrades
Will Rogers, the Oklahoma-born actor, cowboy, humorist, newspaper columnist and social commentator for whom the Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City is named, once said, "If you want to be successful, it's just this simple: Know what you are doing....
NCDOT - Wed May 20, 2020
Road Crews Repair Slides Along U.S. 74 in Western North Carolina
Incessant rains over the last two years in the mountainous far west of North Carolina have led to small landslides and drainage damage along U.S. Highway 74 near Bryson City, located in Swain County. As a result, the NCDOT has brought in a local heavy construction company to make repairs on U.S....
Eric Olson –CEG Correspondent - Thu May 14, 2020
Adding Capacity the Goal of I-10 Projects
Road construction crews are hard at work across the state of Louisiana on several projects to improve Interstate 10, one of the South's busiest vehicle and freight corridors. In the Bayou State, the highway stretches 274 miles across the lower third of Louisiana from the Texas border east through Lake Charles, Lafayette, Baton Rouge and New Orleans, before turning northeast to Mississippi....
Cindy Riley – CEG Correspondent - Tue May 12, 2020
UNL Demolishes 'Link' For $160M Campus Addition
At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, construction crews have successfully completed demolition of the Link between Scott Engineering Center and Nebraska Hall. Foundation work is now under way on the first of two school projects totaling $160 million....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Tue May 12, 2020
Blasting Completed for Essentia Health's $800M Duluth Campus
Twice-daily blasting is required at the site of a 12-story hospital bed tower, which is part of Essentia Health's $800 million Vision Northland project on its medical campus in downtown Duluth, Minn....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Wed April 29, 2020
Foundation Work Complete on $136.6M Iowa Courthouse
Foundation work on a new $136.6 million federal courthouse in Des Moines is under way with augered pier work complete and pile cap installations and early work packages for the deep footings and site utilities started in March....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Thu April 23, 2020
End Finally Comes in View for $100M Portsmouth Project
Thirty-eight months into a nearly $100 million Portsmouth, N.H., wastewater project and the end is finally in sight. Construction on the Peirce Island Wastewater Treatment Facility (WWTF), the largest public works project in the city's history, got under way in 2016 after the city was ordered to upgrade the existing wastewater facility due to inadequate treatment....
Ken Liebeskind -CEG Correspondent - Thu April 23, 2020
Despite COVID-19, Construction Continues on Milford Bridge
The construction of a replacement bridge that carries Wheelers Farms Road over State Road 796, a short highway that connects the Merritt Parkway and Wilbur Cross Parkway to I-95 and the Boston Post Road in Milford, Conn., resumed in early April with completion projected for the fall of 2021....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Thu April 16, 2020
S.T. Wooten Off to Good Start on I-95 Widening From Raleigh to Fayetteville
The Feb. 9 closure of the Long Branch Road bridge (Exit 71) over Interstate 95, north of Fayetteville (Harnett County), marked the first stage of the North Carolina Department of Transportation's (NCDOT) $404 million project to widen 18 miles of the interstate under a design-build contract awarded to S.T....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Thu April 16, 2020
Ammons and Blackmon Progressing on SR 181 Widening
Crews from Ammons and Blackmon Construction LLC began work on the Alabama Department of Transportation's (ALDOT) $19.9 million contract to widen 3.9 mi. of the north-south State Route 181 in August 2018 and are looking to complete the project in the spring of 2021....
