Construction stories and headlines from around the country. Stories about heavy equipment, bridges, construction, stadiums and more.
PASSAIC, NJ (AP) Two individuals whose remains were accidentally unearthed last month at a school construction site might have been slaves, the Herald News of West Paterson reported.
Archaeologists have found bits of coffins and nails recently outside Martin Luther King Jr. elementary school, according to a statement released by the Schools Construction Corp. More...
Bones at Construction Site Might Have Been From Slaves
NEW YORK (AP) As awestruck teens explored their new facilities, the first school created in lower Manhattan since Sept. 11 opened Sept. 5 on the 13th floor of an office building less than a mile from Ground Zero.
The governor, mayor and several other public officials called the opening of Millennium High School and the dedication of a residential tower in Battery Park City a symbolic renaissance in the neighborhood days before the anniversary of the attacks. More...
New High School Opens Near WTC Site
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued temporary regulations that provide detailed guidance on the use of the additional first-year 30- percent depreciation deduction (“depreciation bonus”) created by Congress in 2002 and expanded to 50 percent as part of the Jobs and Growth Act earlier this year. More...
IRS Issues New Regulations Regarding Depreciation Bonus
Sometimes transportation rehab projects don’t require a massive attack by equipment but just a case of a lot of hand work, supplemented by equipment where necessary.
That’s the case with the rehabilitation of the Long Beach Road/Austin Boulevard bridge over the Reynolds Channel, between Long Beach and Island Park NY. J. D. Posillico Inc., Farmingdale, NY, is performing the bridge rehab under a $12.4-million contract with Nassau County, Long Island, in partnership with the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT). (The funding split is 80 percent Federal, 20 percent county.) Hardesty and Hanover is the outside engineering consulting/inspecting firm. More...
Posillico Uses Finesse to Rehab Third Gen Bridge
Enrollment at Marshall University in Huntington, WV, is soaring. And so the school is spending $40 million on four new residence halls, a new dining facility and a parking garage.
The new suite-style residence halls — a far cry from the college “dorms” of yesteryear — were completed in time to be occupied by students arriving on campus for the current fall semester. The adjacent dining facility is slated for completion in December. They join a new 1,000-space parking garage that opened last year — all necessitated by Marshall’s record-high enrollment. More...
Marshall University’s $40M Expansion Thunders Ahead
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) Almost two years after barges knocked a 240-ft. gap in the Queen Isabella Causeway and vehicles plunged off the broken span, highway engineers are working to ensure that motorists crossing Texas’ longest bridge are better protected. More...
Safeguarding a TX Causeway
