Emily Buenzle - Tue June 19, 2018
Army Corps of Engineers Announces Funding Plans to Aid Post-Harvey Texas
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently announced plans to use more than $509 million in funding for a series of Texas projects, including flood mitigation and other work for the Brays and Buffalo bayous....
Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance - Tue June 19, 2018
Construction Topping Out Set for New Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum
Local Survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides will be recognized at a special topping out ceremony on June 13th as construction of the new Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum enters its final phase....
Kubota - Tue June 12, 2018
Kubota Tractor Corporation Acquires 318 Acres of Land for Kubota Ranch
Kubota Tractor Corporation has completed the purchase of nearly 318 acres of land in Ponder, Texas, in Denton County, approximately 30 miles northwest of its North American headquarters location in Grapevine, Texas....
Giles Lambertson – CEG Correspondent - Tue June 12, 2018
Cracking Concrete Puts Stadium in the Spotlight for All the Wrong Reasons
High school football stadiums are a big deal in Texas. A big heavy deal. A big heavy cracking deal. A new $70 million stadium and event center in McKinney is the latest Texas venue to be scandalized by cracking concrete....
Emily Buenzle - Thu June 07, 2018
Oil Boom Brings High-Paying Industry Jobs to Area
The shale-oil boom in the Permian Basin, located in Texas and New Mexico, is luring workers from all sorts of industries with high-paying jobs. This is currently the nation's busiest oil area, with the rig count increasing by one-third over the past year, Bloomberg reported....
Link-Belt Cranes - Wed June 06, 2018
HTC-86110 Covers Eastern Slope for RMS Cranes
RMS Cranes, Denver, Colo., merged with TNT Crane and Rigging of Houston, Texas, in 2015 to form a network providing 38 branch locations. RMS Cranes' Windsor, Colo., location received a new 110-ton (100-t) HTC-86110 for its taxi crane needs, servicing a boundary east and west of I-25 and north of Boulder, Colo., in northern Colorado....
Wed June 06, 2018
LSR Equipment Opens New Facility in Weatherford, Texas
IEDA member dealer LSR Equipment recently opened a new location in Weatherford, Texas. Previously, LSR was located in Justin, with a second location in Tyler. The Tyler location is not affected by the move....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Wed June 06, 2018
Bridge Repair in Texas After Harvey
Nearly nine months after Hurricane Harvey made landfall on the coast of Texas, prompting the largest disaster response ever recorded in Texas state history, work is at last under way to repair a bridge that suffered substantial damage in the storm....
U.S. Cement, LLC - Sun May 06, 2018
New State-of-the-Art Cement Plant, Jobs Coming to the Heart of Texas
U.S. Cement, LLC, announced it has received a draft air permit from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to construct a Portland Cement Plant near the town of Brady, Texas. U.S. Cement, LLC has begun the necessary engineering to build a facility which will incorporate the latest in cement manufacturing technology and the most advanced environmental controls....
Chicago Pneumatic - Mon June 04, 2018
Re-Generating a Town in the Wake of Hurricane Harvey
Hurricane Harvey, one of the worst hurricanes on record in North America, made landfall on the small coastal tourist town of Rockport, Texas, in late August. It left the city in shambles. The Category 4 hurricane hit peak intensity on its path to Houston....
