Contractors Profit From Universities’ Growing Pains

College campuses are a growth industry for general contractors. In an economy that is in transition from manufacturing to service and is struggling to regain its footing after the terrorist attacks of 2001, thousands of people are going back to school to reinvigorate their careers or to start new ones.

Add to that influx of second-chance students a general growth in college-age populations and you have campus infrastructure under stress. Construction companies are feeling this stress, but in a profitable way. More...

Contractors Profit From Universities’ Growing Pains

Drive Against Diabetes Reaches OH

Sgt. Craig M. Schultz stopped in at the Ohio Cat headquarters in Broadview Heights, OH, recently on his Drive Against Diabetes, which will take him from New York City to Los Angeles.

Schultz is headed cross-country to raise awareness of Juvenile Onset (type 1) diabetes, which compromised the health of his late father. Schultz is driving a Caterpillar 236 skid steer donated by Cat and Syracuse Supply Company, a Syracuse, NY-based Cat dealer. At a top speed of 12 mph, Schultz hopes to complete his journey Nov. 14. More...

Drive Against Diabetes Reaches OH

Homestead-Miami Construction Nears Final Lap

Race fans from all over will be coming to a new and more exciting track at Homestead-Miami Speedway when it is it finished in November. The new configuration will result in increased excitement for fans and drivers when the Homestead-Miami Speedway becomes the first NASCAR Winston Cup track to be planned and constructed to include a variable banking system. More...

Homestead-Miami Construction Nears Final Lap

At 75, FL’s ‘Greatest’ Construction Job Tells State’s Story

TAMPA, FL (AP) It stretches 274 mi. through the vast open spaces of Florida, skirting the Gulf Coast just close enough for drivers to notice the sky is a little bluer there and then turning to forge through the River of Grass.

Tampa to Miami — Tamiami. Seventy-five years after the trail was built, the remarkable road that carried dreamers, land speculators and tourists to the Sunshine State still tells the tale of Florida. More...

At 75, FL’s ‘Greatest’ Construction Job Tells State’s Story