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PHILADELPHIA (AP) For many Eagles and Phillies fans, it will be a dream come true.
After months of engineering studies, the Philadelphia Phillies have decided that an implosion is the best way to demolish Veterans Stadium early next year. More...
Phillies Decide to Implode Veterans Stadium in February
WASHINGTON (AP) Spending on construction ventures around the United States increased in July to the highest level seen since the beginning of the year, a promising sign for the economy's anticipated second-half rebound.
The Commerce Department reported Sept. 1 that the value of building projects under way clocked in at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $879.8 billion in July, representing a modest 0.2 percent increase from June's level.More...
Construction Spending Grows Significantly in Second Quarter
U.S. House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., held a private meeting with representatives from the American Rental Association (ARA) in Moline, IL., on Wednesday, Aug. 27, to discuss legislative issues important to the rental industry. Hastert is the third highest elected official in the United States.
ARA Chairman of the Board Dave Wilcox II, ARA CEO Christine Wehrman, and Terry Bryant, a rental store owner and veteran ARA member, met with Hastert, who is serving his ninth term as the Republican Congressman for Illinois' 14th Congressional District. A series of communiqu�s between Hastert's office and John McClelland, ARA senior director of government affairs, led to the visit. More...
House Speaker Hastert Meets With ARA Reps
The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) has selected Tidewater Skanska Inc. to build the Pinners Point Interchange, VDOT's largest single construction contract, in Portsmouth, VA. The road and bridge project will provide an interstate-type connection from Portsmouth's Western Freeway into the Portsmouth Marine Terminal and the Midtown Tunnel, which connects Norfolk and Portsmouth. Tidewater Skanska has reached the halfway mark on the construction, which was scheduled to take 1,000 days. More...
Skanska Motors Through VA's Pinners Point Project
It’s imperative that a company be very honest in its dealings, diligent in the pursuit of its objectives, and production oriented.
“In other words, it must have a commitment to quality in everything it does. To accomplish this, it must employ personnel of the highest caliber. I am very proud to feel that we meet these criteria,” said the President-Treasurer of Superior Paving Inc., Willard R. Elsberry. More...
Superior Maintains Commitment to Quality with Link-Belt
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) With a buddy's hearty ``hi yo Silver'' send-off, Kord Raley lurches out of the chute and bounces into the arena on Bobcat S250.
The Mesa County Road Department worker's jaw is set, his shoulders hunched and his focus intent. As the clock ticks down, he maneuvers between and around orange barrels in dust-raising fits and starts, turns and crowd-pleasing wheelies. More...
Machine Operators Test Their Mettle From Grading to Gravedigging
The South Carolina Department of Transportation has selected Balfour Beatty Construction Inc. (BBCI) as the managing partner and lead contractor on the SC 170 Widening Project, located west of the city of Beaufort. The $105 million design/build project involves the widening of 12.5 mi. (20 km) of roadway east of SC 462 to just west of S-761. It also includes the replacement of bridges over both the Broad and Chechessee Rivers. More...
Balfour Beatty Broadens Horizons With SC 170 Job
When you’re doing highway work in New Hampshire, “the Granite State,” it comes as no surprise that you’ll run into that hard rock. That’s why Alvin J. Coleman & Sons Inc. of Conway, NH, is using a Pioneer 26 by 49 portable tracked crusher from Thompson Equipment Inc. of Lewiston, ME, on its latest project. More..
Pioneer Crusher Makes the Day on Granite State Project
The state-of-the-art retractable roof on Houston’s Minute Maid Park is a lot less dazzling today than during its debut just over three years ago. An as-yet unidentified organism is growing on the exterior of the roof, and the stadium’s principal residents, the Houston Astros, are calling on the manufacturer to correct the problem. More...
Mystery Stains Discolor Retractable Roof at Houston’s Minute Maid Park
Luther Stem Concrete Pumping of Fort Smith, AR, and Jensen Construction Company of Des Moines, IA, once again teamed up for “Part II” of the bridge crossing the Arkansas River at Sallisaw, OK. More...
OK Bridge Project Relies on Boom Pumps, Barge
The South Carolina Department of Transportation has selected Balfour Beatty Construction Inc. (BBCI) as the managing partner and lead contractor on the SC 170 Widening Project, located west of the city of Beaufort. The $105 million design/build project involves the widening of 12.5 mi. (20 km) of roadway east of SC 462 to just west of S-761. It also includes the replacement of bridges over both the Broad and Chechessee Rivers. More...
Balfour Beatty Broadens Horizons With SC 170 Job
