Pete Sigmund was a longtime editorial consultant and journalist of Construction Equipment Guide for which he wrote incisive, biweekly news articles and features for more than three decades. Mr. Sigmund authored many standout features for Construction Equipment Guide.
The United States is celebrating the bicentennial of this 363-mile-long 19th Century engineering feat, which created a navigable water route connecting Albany, N.Y....
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A look back at one of the nation's great achievements....
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With highway construction projects taking an average of 13 years to complete, some are calling into question the "excessive" review process....
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A look back at the roots of the ConExpo show, going back a century....
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The House and Senate have passed, and President Obama has signed into law, a $50.5-billion emergency relief bill to help restore areas devastated by Hurricane Sandy....
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(A growing, vibrant highway and bridge program is one of the keys to economic recovery. The American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) addressed important topics and questions pertaining to the infrastructure construction market in a recent “Webinar” forecast for Wall Street analysts and construction industry executives....
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About 50 relatives in our family had laid plans over several months to meet at a church in the Lower Village of New York City at 5 p.m. on Sept. 10. There, we would begin our observance of the 10th anniversary of the death of Johanna Sigmund, my niece, beneath the North Tower of the World Trade Center on Sept....
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In the words of Satchel Paige: “Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you.” For the construction industry, that something is many billions of dollars in overdue highway, bridge and transit funding, and an approaching deadline, which is critical for continued activity....
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The construction industry is reaping rewards from oil and gas drilling as one of the keys to recovery. The oil and gas industry is closely tied to the U.S. economy — and construction....
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A new six-year highway and surface transportation bill, which may be enacted within the next six months, would have to increase infrastructure spending to almost half a trillion dollars to meet critical needs of roads, bridges, mass transit and other vital sectors....
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Sizable growth in new construction of single-family homes and a high level of construction of roads and bridges are positive expectations for 2010 as the industry and the nation hope for a stronger economic recovery from high unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcies and other continuing myriad problems....
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Leading economists say the strength of the U.S. and world economy in 2009 depends on the U.S. construction industry, especially the recovery of the single-family housing market and greatly increased multibillion-dollar investment in the nation’s infrastructure....
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Thanks for holding. The phones are ringing every minute. What a day this has been. We’re busier than a one-armed paper hanger. We’re so busy the paper hanger just quit....
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The construction industry will continue to ride a very bumpy road in 2008, many economists believe, but they also see the year ending on a positive note, led by the beginning of a recovery in the badly slumping housing sector....
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Midway through 2007, the industry can be guardedly, but not overly, optimistic about the outlook for the rest of the year. The economy and the construction industry face big questions that may play out as positives or negatives....
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(Editor’s Note: This article is the last in a 10-part series on iconic United States construction projects.)One highway project stands out in the history of U.S....
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(Editor’s Note: This article is the ninth in an occasional series on iconic United States construction projects.)The Transcontinental Railroad, built almost entirely by hand in the 1860s, and conquering terrible obstacles, including Native American attacks, has often been called the greatest construction achievement in the United States during the 19th century....
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The strong, graceful, bridge, which spans the Straits of Mackinac in Michigan, is one of the nation’s greatest bridge-building achievements of the 20th century....
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A strong highway and bridge construction market is expected to power the construction industry ahead in 2007, countering such worrisome factors as the slowdown in the residential housing market, according to leading economists interviewed by Construction Equipment Guide (CEG)....
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(Editor’s Note: This article is the seventh in an occasional series on iconic United States construction projects.)In 1931, while the United States was flat on its back in the Great Depression, the country rose from the mat, flexed its muscles and began building the mighty Hoover Dam, not only taming the angry, flood-prone, Colorado River but also demonstrating the distressed nation’s determination to survive economic fear....
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