Roads & Bridges - Thu January 07, 2021
West Virginia DOT Plans to Build Bluefield Area Transit Station
The West Virginia Department of Transportation (WVDOT) announced Jan. 5 that the state's Bluefield Area Transit (BAT) will build a bus transfer station in the city of Bluefield utilizing grant funding from the Federal Transit Administration....
WOAY-TV - Tue December 22, 2020
West Virginia Governor Approves Funds for Two New Road Projects
Gov. Jim Justice of West Virginia announced Dec. 21 that he has approved the bid award for two new Roads to Prosperity projects: the West Virginia Route 2 Proctor to Kent Project in the Northern Panhandle, and the Sanderson Bridge Project in Kanawha County....
Huntington Herald-Dispatch - Fri December 18, 2020
Unique Machinery Highlights W.Va.'s I-64 Bridge Construction
A large yellow piece of machinery has been the focal point of bridge construction near the Barboursville exit on Interstate 64 in West Virginia, but many locals and motorists have puzzled over what it is....
Colin Kund – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Thu December 17, 2020
Wolfe's Excavating Preps Massive Charles Pointe Project
Wolfe's Excavating LLC started like a lot of businesses — small. Alex Wolfe started the company in 2007 with just a single-axle dump truck, a trailer and a mini-excavator. Since then, the business has grown exponentially and Wolfe's has completed some large scale, high-profile projects....
CEG - Thu December 10, 2020
Iron Auction Holds Absolute Auction of Pete Gould & Sons
Iron Auction Group held an absolute court ordered liquidation of Pete Gould & Sons on Dec. 1, 2020, in Princeton, West Virginia. It was a cold day for early December, with a dusting of snow at the auction site....
Weirton Daily Times - Tue December 01, 2020
West Virginia's Capitol Dome Repair to be Done by Late Spring
By late spring 2021, work should be finished on a $15 million project to repair the water-damaged West Virginia Capitol dome in Charleston and install a new drainage system to mitigate future leaks, among other structural repairs....
CEG - Thu November 05, 2020
Iron Auction Hosts Unreserved Auction in Princeton, West Virginia
Iron Auction Group hosted a very successful Unreserved Equipment and Truck Auction in Princeton, W.V., on Oct. 27. Hundreds of bidders from 11 countries and 44 states within the United States participated....
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Tue October 13, 2020
West Virginia Wins $500M Hyperloop Certification Facility
Approximately 18 months ago, West Virginia set a goal of establishing itself as a cradle for developing new technology. That effort bore its largest fruit so far Oct. 8, when Virgin Hyperloop One chose an 800-acre site in the Mountain State for the $500 million Hyperloop Certification Facility, a 6-mi....
The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register - Mon October 05, 2020
Span for New WV Bridge Over Ohio River to be Moved in Spring
While it is still too early in the project to pinpoint a completion date, the new Wellsburg Bridge in West Virginia continues to take shape. More than two years after the groundbreaking ceremony for the bridge, crews with the Flatiron Corporation of Broomfield, Colo., continue constructing the piers and supporting structures across the Ohio River between Wellsburg and Brilliant, Ohio....
Hagerstown Herald-Mail - Tue September 22, 2020
New $38.7M Project on U.S. 340 in West Virginia Latest to be Awarded
A Mount Storm, W.Va.-based contractor has been awarded a $38.7 million project to widen U.S. Highway 340 to four lanes from the end of the Charles Town, W.Va., Bypass to nearly a half-mile south of the state line in Clarke County, Va....
