Fri January 17, 2003
Tulsa’s Becco Contractors Lays Hot Mix on Stretch of Route 66
Known as the “Main Street of America,” Route 66 once offered a 2,448-mi-long route between Chicago and Los Angeles.
Roadway demands have changed greatly since Route 66’s commission nearly 80 years ago, and much of the road is no longer in use....
Mary Gelling Merritt - Fri November 22, 2002
Villager Construction Tackles Route 31 Challenges in NY
In Palmyra, NY, on Route 31 a project has been under way to reconstruct a 1.9-mi. (3.1 km) section of the town from the Macedon town line in the west to the bridge which spans the Erie Canal in the east....
Mary Gelling Merritt - Wed April 24, 2002
Rochester’s Dome Arena Plays Host to 20th Annual Municipal Equipment Show
Town road superintendents in western New York look forward to this event every spring. It’s the 20th Annual Municipal Equipment Show at the Dome Arena in Henrietta, NY. “The idea was to get all the vendors and the superintendents together at one place for one whole day,” explained Show Organizer and Superintendent of Public Works for the Town of Webster Dave Galeazzo....
G.W. Hall - Wed February 20, 2002
C.W. Matthews Molds Atlanta’s $2B Atlantic Station
The $2-billion Atlantic Station project continues to take shape north of 14th Street in Atlanta, at the site of the old Atlantic Steel mill. When completed in three years, the 140-acre (57 ha) mixed-use enclave will include hotels, condos, apartments, restaurants, retail establishments, office space and entertainment venues....
G.W. Hall - Wed February 06, 2002
Post Finishes Townhome Construction in Atlanta
Efforts to revitalize the community along Glenwood Avenue near I-20 received a major boost in October 2001, when the first residents moved into the elegant new Glenwood Green Townhomes. The $17-million development, which Post Construction Services of Atlanta built for 951 Glenwood Associates LLC, features 188 residences with prices ranging from the $140,000s to the $190,000s....
Brenda Ruggiero - Wed January 16, 2002
Corman Reconstructs Baltimore’s Reistertown Road Bridge
Baltimore’s Corman Construction Inc. is gaining first-hand experience in creating an urban diamond interchange at Interstate 695 and MD 140 in Baltimore County. Although new to this particular area, this type of interchange has been used in more than 20 states to manage heavy traffic since the 1970s....
G.W. Hall - Tue November 27, 2001
Crews Finish Up Road Work in South Carolina
Dust will soon settle for the last time in four lakefront subdivisions near Eutawville, SC, where general contractor W. Frazier Construction Inc. and several subcontractors have teamed up to pave 21 existing dirt roads.
Rea Construction will handle the paving portion of the project, which has a total value of nearly $1 million....
Craig Mongeau - Mon August 20, 2001
Mt. Hope Makes Paving History at Newark Airport
Paving history was made recently at New Jersey’s Newark Airport. On Friday morning at 7 a.m., June 15, with temperatures inching toward the high 80s already, Mt. Hope Rock Products, a division of Tilcon, was charged with the duty of paving a 4,800 ft....
G.W. Hall - Mon July 30, 2001
Contractors ’Shoulder’ Georgia Interstate-16 Widening Project
Rogers Bridge Company Inc. and Mitchell Construction Co. Inc. of Atlanta, GA, have teamed up to complete a $27.9-million bridge and shoulder widening project along Interstate 16 in Laurens and Treutlen counties....
Giles Lambertson - Wed December 27, 2000
Bar Construction Holds Court on North Carolina Campus
When Bar Construction Co. of Greensboro, NC, won the job of clearing away and then reconstructing some tennis courts on the campus of University of North Carolina-Greensboro, the task was clear enough to Charles O’Bryant, project manager.
It was simply a matter, he said, “of making the water go away and making the courts flat.”
Sounds simple enough, and the project indeed is on schedule for completion a few days before Thanksgiving....
