Six Decades Later, Work on World War II Memorial Begins

SPRINGFIELD, IL (AP) For Tom Proctor, there could be no better day than Sunday to break ground for Illinois' memorial to the veterans of World War II. Exactly 62 years earlier, Proctor was sitting down to breakfast at Pearl Harbor when his anti-aircraft weapons unit was called out. The Japanese had attacked, and America was suddenly fighting in World War II. Click for more...

Six Decades Later, Work on World War II Memorial Begins

Building Initiative Making Over Georgia Tech, Downtown Atlanta

ATLANTA (AP) Students returning to Georgia Tech this fall found a half-billion dollars worth of labs, classrooms and other buildings that weren’t there when classes started in 2002.

One-sixth of all space in use at the college this fall is new, in what university officials call the biggest higher-education building boom in the United States. In the next few years, the price tag on construction projects at Tech is expected to near $1 billion. Click for more...

Building Initiative Making Over Georgia Tech, Downtown Atlanta

Head of Animas-La Plata Construction Panel Replaced After Cost Overruns

DENVER (AP) The chairman of a panel overseeing the Animas-La Plata Project has been replaced after cost overruns raised the estimated price of the water storage facility by nearly 50 percent, to $500 million. Pat Schumacher, a Bureau of Reclamation employee in Durango, was removed as chairman and replaced by Rich Ehat, the project's construction engineer, bureau Commissioner John Keys said Dec. 4. Click for more...

Head of Animas-La Plata Construction Panel Replaced After Cost Overruns

Digging Up Dirt for the New Newseum in Washington D.C.

WASHINGTON D.C. (AP) The Freedom Forum broke ground Dec. 4 on its new, larger Newseum and showed off its plans for a six-story building west of the Capitol. "Today we start doing what newspeople are good at, we start digging up dirt," said Charles Overby, chairman and chief executive officer of the Freedom Forum, which funds the Newseum. Click for more...

Digging Up Dirt for the New Newseum in Washington D.C.

Tampa Firm Uses Grinder to Efficiently Rid Green Waste

The Tampa-St. Petersburg area, like most of Florida, is experiencing solid growth at a time when a large segment of the construction industry is feeling a downturn in business in other regions of the country. Click for more...

Tampa Firm Uses Grinder to Efficiently Rid Green Waste

Marines Capture Vintage TD-18 From State Line Machine

On Sept. 24, 2003, the United States Marine Corps 4th Combat Engineers Battalion descended on State Line Machine Inc., in Wilmington, DE, and captured a piece of history — an International Harvester (IH) TD-18 diesel crawler tractor equipped with a Bucyrus-Erie angle blade. Click for more...

Marines Capture Vintage TD-18 From State Line Machine

WI’s Highway 35 Affords Majestic River View

Wisconsin’s picturesque, often gorgeous, Highway 35 sometimes winds between 500-ft.-high wooded bluffs, green woods and the Mississippi River. From the road you may see a white paddle wheel steamboat come into view like a ghost from the past, its large wheel pushing majestically through the water. Click for more...

WI’s Highway 35 Affords Majestic River View

RED HORSE Squadron Paves Way in Omani Desert

The men and women in the RED HORSE Squadron of the United States Air Force are called upon to complete projects all over the globe. Often, they are the first unit in and will be the last one out. They are self-sufficient and have all they need when they travel, including carpenters, medics and cooks. Sometimes their projects are completed under enemy fire. It is the ultimate deadline pressure any builder can face. Click for more...

RED HORSE Squadron Paves Way in Omani Desert