Construction stories and headlines from around the country. Stories about heavy equipment, bridges, construction, stadiums and more.
MOLINE, IL (AP) Unionized workers at Deere & Co. on Monday ratified a new six-year contract with the farm equipment maker covering retirees and employees in five states.
The agreement boosts newer workers' salaries, maintains company-paid health care benefits and prohibits Deere from closing plants. More...
Deere Workers Ratify Six-Year Contract
JLG Industries, Inc. announced that Sky Trak telehandler production has begun at the JLG manufacturing facility in McConnellsburg, PA. These units were formerly produced at the OmniQuip facility in Port Washington, WI. More...
JLG Begins Sky Trak Telehandler Production At McConnellsburg, PA, Facility
SANTA FE, NM (AP) The New Mexico Workers' Compensation Administration has temporarily suspended an interpretation of state law that required contractors without employees to purchase workers' compensation insurance.
Sole-proprietor contractors were not required to get the insurance in the past. But earlier this year, the administration determined that all contractors have to buy the insurance, regardless if they employ anyone. More...
New Mexico Administration Suspends Workers Comp Rule
The U.S. construction industry is engaged in a fierce worldwide competition for projects that will be valued at hundreds of billions of dollars over the next 50 years.
As the industry emerges from recession along with the rest of the country, worldwide markets beckon for construction equipment. More...
Iron Exports Rise as Economy Recovers
The Route 52 bridge over the Wallkill River in the village of Walden, NY, is not your typical bridge. Instead of being constructed with steel girders lying flat across the river, it boasts a concrete arch design dating back to Roman times.
Arch bridges — one of the oldest types of bridges — possess great natural strength. Instead of pushing straight down, the bridge’s weight is carried outward along the curve of the arch to the supports at each end. These supports, or abutments, carry the load and keep the ends of the bridge from spreading out. More...
Arch Bridge Rises in Walden Village
PHOENIX Process Equipment Co. has appointed EESSCO, of Norwell, MA, as its exclusive sales representative for the aggregate market in the states of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire.
PHOENIX Process Equipment Co. was established in Pompano Beach, FL, in 1984 with a Department of Energy grant that helped in the development of the company’s initial technology, the separation of clean coal from coal refuse. More...
PHOENIX Appoints EESSCO as New Sales Representative
Robert Sweeney founded Sweeney Excavation in 1986 and from the very beginning, he’s had his eye on the future of the industry. Now there’s an eye in the sky helping him do his work.
Originally, Sweeney worked with the owner of a pool company installing swimming pools. Over time, his company has grown into a substantial site development business, which also does septic work, sewer and water systems, asphalt paving and maintenance. What’s more, Sweeney owns and operates the Blue Diamond Quarry, with locations in East Haven and Meriden, CT, which manufactures and sells aggregate products and topsoil. More...
Sweeney Excavation Looks to the Sky for Direction
