Brenda Ruggiero has written for CEG for over 20 years. She lives near the town of Accident in far western Maryland. Her favorite assignments so far involved interviews with Survivor’s Boston Rob and hot dog eating champion Joey Chestnut. Both were involved in construction at one time.
Brenda holds a BA in Mass Communication with a writing focus from Frostburg State University and minors in Public Relations and Political Science. She works full time as a staff writer for a weekly newspaper, the Garrett County Republican. She enjoys feature writing the most, which gives her the opportunity to talk to people and share their stories.
Brenda and her middle school sweetheart, Reuben, have been married for over 34 years and have three grown children and four cats.
The first spliced prestressed bulb-tee girder bridge in Delaware is currently being built near Wilmington under the direction of the Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT)....
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The U.S Army Corps of Engineers is currently in charge of a beach renourishment project in Ocean City, Md. The work is a periodic renourishment of the existing Atlantic Coast of Maryland Shoreline Protection Project, a coastal storm management project initially completed in the early 1990s....
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Rehabilitation work is currently being done on the only parallel cable suspension bridge within the state of Pennsylvania. The project involves the Philip Murray Bridge (South 10th Street) in Pittsburgh, and is under the direction of the Department of Public Works....
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The Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration (MDOT SHA) is using an innovative approach to maintain traffic during the construction of a bridge replacement project in Hereford, Md., in Baltimore County....
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The three “Sister Bridges” that are part of the Pittsburgh, Pa., city skyline are undergoing a major rehabilitation project, and the Andy Warhol (7th Street) Bridge is the first to undergo the process....
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A mile-long bridge in Ocean County, N.J., is currently undergoing a $74 million replacement project. The eastbound Mathis Bridge and westbound Tunney Bridges are a pair of bridges carrying Route 37 over Barnegat Bay between Toms River and Seaside Heights....
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This phase of MD 404 was advertised on Oct. 20, 2015, construction began in the summer of 2016, and the project will be open for traffic in November of 2017....
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The contract was awarded to Weeks Marine Inc. and is known as the Absecon Island Coastal Storm Damage Reduction project....
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J.D. Eckman Inc. is a full-service construction company in Atglen, Pa. The company has its own in-house engineering staff that includes more than eight full-time registered professional engineers licensed in several states and more than a dozen project managers/engineers who have the expertise to handle the most complex projects....
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Ben & Jerry's has been making ice cream in the St. Albans, Vt., location for 20 years and reportedly makes about two-thirds of the ice cream there....
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The first streetcar system in Oklahoma City, Okla., since the 1940s is becoming a reality. Civic leaders broke ground on the MAPS 3 Oklahoma City (OKC) Streetcar track line in February, starting work on the metro's first streetcar system in generations and launching a new era in local public transit....
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Until construction began on NMUSA, the Army was the only branch of the military without a national museum....
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A state-of-the-art nano facility is being built at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Mass....
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A private resort community like no other is in the early stages of being built in Fannin County, Texas. Trident Lakes is a $300 million project which is being developed Vintuary Holdings Corp....
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Procter & Gamble (P&G) is making a $500 million capital investment to build a new manufacturing plant and warehouse on a tract of land in Tabler Station, W.Va., which is in Berkeley County....
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In August, the Maryland Department of Transportation's State Highway Administration (SHA) began a nearly two-year project to rehabilitate 11 bridges on U.S. 13/U.S....
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The Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) began a project in the summer of 2016 to rehabilitate the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, which is officially named the “Gov....
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The next phase of the Southern Beltway around the Pittsburgh International Airport has begun under the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC). Located in Washington County, Pa., this portion, known as 55A1, involves U.S....
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Nearly six decades after the project was first proposed, the $142 million East End Connector is taking shape in Durham County, N.C. The North Carolina Department of Transportation, city of Durham and Durham County broke ground on the 3.9-mi....
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A unique mixed-use development project known as Bulfinch Crossing is beginning to take shape in Boston....
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